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target of the Yugoslav Army in 1991,

its network of TV tower

were a top priority.

If history increasingly

consists of images,

those who control the

images control history.

By the end of the century, the mass

rallies of the 30's were largely unnecessary.

With the precision of a

guillotine, film sliced history

into 24 frames per second,

transporting it into the future.

In 1983, the so-called "interview" of

Laibach by TV Slovenia defined an early landmark

in what critics of mass media

have termed "culture jamming."

Conducted more by the group

than by unwitting journalist Jure Pengov,

Laibach revealed the way

state-controlled media work

by externalizing both its

methods and its codes.

Although interpretable now

as a kind of failed inoculation,

Laibach's action anticipated both the

visual appearance and the televisual method

that would later be used to trigger

dormant nationalism within the Balkans.

Television. Within the industry of

consciousness the television medium is,

besides the school system, the

leading molder of uniform thinking.

Television programs are

basically centralized,

with one transmitter

and many receivers.

No communication

is possible between them.

We use mainly tools with

a manipulative possibility

and repressively use

the power of information.

These tools are used for

collective consumption,

and are the best for deterring

the masses from critical thinking.

for instance film as the most powerful

weapon with the longest strength

and the most powerful

influence on the human spirit.

If I got it right, you use

television to challenge us.

Fine, so do we.

Maybe, maybe now somebody

will act and repress

these horrifying ideas and declarations

here in the middle of Ljubljana.

We are the children of

the spirit, brothers of might,

whose promises are

still nowhere in sight,

we are the black specters

of this world below,

we are singing of this

mad picture of woe,

we are the

first TV generation.

Yugoslavia / Force

There's a European

quality to Balkan history.

When Europe falls out of balance,

it is visible here before anywhere else.

At the end of the

bloodiest century in history,

and with the finest armies

and weapons in the world,

a complacent Europe grows accustomed

to watching its own primitive past

play like a violent film safely on the other

side of the old East-West boundary.

The warning of a group of artist

from one of Central Europe's

forgotten cities still resounds, more

than a decade after its founding.

Look at the past, NSK said,

and you will see the future.

Look at the Balkans, Europe.

You are looking into a mirror.

Epilogue

In the middle of the nineties,

the most successful pop-cultural

export from the old East

performs for the first time

in the cradle of democracy.

As usual in Athens, reminders of

history don't have to announce themselves.

They are visible everywhere

like the signs reflecting

an irrational Greek fury

at the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic of

Macedonia, just to the north.

At the close of the millennium,

Slovenia remains an independent

and democratic nation.

It is visible on the map, within a

Central Europe uneasily balanced

between the East and West.

As for NSK, the art movement organized "as

a state without territory, a state in time"

recently started issuing its own passports.

They have been used successfully to cross

international frontiers - including by a number

of citizens of the besieged Republic of Bosnia

Herzegovina, who otherwise have great

difficulty crossing state borders.

Remember, this movie was made

still hold? Could it be said, that some

parts even are more true than they were then?

I apologise for any problems with

the transcript myself.

- Mariborchan

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