NSK State Venice Pavilion in Vienna
On the occasion of the 57th Venice Biennale the NSK State in Time will be opening a pavilion in Venice and Vienna. The NSK State Venice Pavilion in Vienna – Thinking Europe, will present the installation Europa by Ramesch Daha and Anna Jermolaewa and a temporary NSK passport office. As the NSK State Pavilion in Venice, the pavilion space in Vienna includes two parts. The first part is an »An Apology for Modernity«. The second part, a room of »global disorder«, presents the responses of around 100 different citizens, migrants and stateless individuals to questions about European and personal heritage. Together with the Viennese NGO Einander, asylum seekers run the passport office and guide visitors and potential new citizens through the exhibition and talk about their experience of migration and their life in Austria. The office will issue NSK passports to all applicants who apply and are willing to engage in a dialogue.
NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning "New Slovenian Art") is a controversial political art collective that formed in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia. NSK's name, being German, is compatible with a theme in NSK works: the complicated relationship Slovenes have had with Germans. NSK's best-known member is also its founder, the musical group Laibach. Other NSK members include groups such as IRWIN (visual art), Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre (also known as Red Pilot and Cosmokinetic Theatre Noordung), New Collective Studio (graphics; also known as New Collectivism), Retrovision (film and video), and the Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy (theory).
You can get a passport of NSK issued for only 24€!
Exhibition talks:
30. May, 7 pm
ARCC.art Open Space
With: Zdenka Badovinac (director, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana), Charles Esche (director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), Ahmet Ögüt (artist, Amsterdam/Berlin), IRWIN
(artist-collective, Ljubljana), Moderation: Mara Ambrožic (curator, Paris) Language: English
until 11th June