Stručni rad
Suspended Realities: The Possibility of a Postnational Utopia in the NSK State
Nina Gojić
; University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Sažetak
This essay departs from the notions of obsolescence and insufficiency of the concept of the nation-state as the dominant form of contemporary political organisation. With regard to this, theories of post-national identities are explored through an analysis of the NSK State, a project conceived by the Slovene art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst. Some of their most important projects realised in the eighties are explained in order to introduce the terms of subversive affirmation and over-identification, representational strategies that were used in critically oriented art stemming from the former socialist countries. The post-national charge of the mechanisms entailed by the NSK State is observed not only in relation to new nationalisms that appeared as the consequence of the break-up of Yugoslavia, but also in relation to the deficiencies of the concept of European Union, because of its incapability to resolve its internal conflicts as well as in relation to its xenophobic immigration policies.
Ključne riječi
collective performance; over-identification; NSK State; post-nationality; utopia
Hrčak ID:
77472
URI
Datum izdavanja:
8.2.2012.
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