[Minorcompositions] 1/5 Online Seminar: Weapons of Mass Instruction. Art, the State Form, and the NSK State in Time

[Minor Compositions]

Weapons of Mass Instruction. Art, the State Form, and the NSK State in Time
Online seminar and book release event – Hosted by Minor Compositions
May 1st, 2023 @ 7PM GMT

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weapons-of-mass-instruction-art-the-state-form-and-the-nsk-state-in-time-tickets-619636147397

This event is a release event and discussion of the new book on the NSK 
State in Time, Weapons of Mass Instruction, edited by Alexander Nym.

More Information on the book:
NSK & the State: Founded in 1991, after 
Slovenia’s secession from the crumbling Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 
NSK State in Time was conceived as both a continuation and dissolution 
of artist movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), which had emerged in 
Ljubljana in 1984. While the remaining federal states went on to 
slaughter each other, NSK State offered the artistic vision of a global 
state without borders and without territory, a state consisting of “the 
concrete body warmth, the spirit and the work of its members” – the 
citizenship of which is open to everyone, worldwide. In time, citizens 
began to create their own artworks, events and performances based on the 
diverse aesthetics, techniques and contents provided by NSK founding 
groups Laibach, Irwin and theatre group Noordung, and complementing them 
in theory and practice.

During the 1st NSK Citizens’ Congress at Berlin’s House of World 
Cultures in 2010, citizens took the state into their own hands, ushering 
in a new phase of unprecedented partisan activities. Weapons of Mass 
Instruction documents NSK State in the phase following the Berlin 
Citizens’ Congress right up to the last actions before the pandemic 
break, and turns the view towards alternate ideas of statehood in the 
mirror of this State in Time – this abstract, totalitarian unit 
encompassing art and politics, theory and practice, as well as dystopian 
doubt and utopian idealism.

More Information About the Book: 
https://shop.outbird.net/produkt/alexander-nym-hrsg-reden-an-die-europaeische-nation-weapons-of-mass-instruction/