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Neue Slowenische Kunst and the End of the World
Lela Angela Mršek Bajda
Sažetak
When we see the complex of interacting avant-garde practices of Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) in the spiritual-aesthetic connection of the art collectives of Laibach, Irwin and chain of transformation of performative forms Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater→Red Pilot Cosmokinetic Theater→Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet→Dragan Živadinov & Dunja Zupančič & Miha Turšič, several artistic articulations of envisioning an end to the neoliberal, capitalistic world and the injustices perpetuated by its ideological, political and economic structures emerge. The most concrete, but multifaceted, is Živadinov’s theater performance Odilo. Obscuration. Oratorio. It symbolically puts an end to a society based on a system of economic exploitation, with regard to capitalism, as accelerated by nazism; the ideological search for the Truly Harmful Man, identified in the Grand Narrative of the persistent polarization of East and West by Eda Čufer (Irwin); and the absolutism of ontological nihilism in relation to the philosophy of Peter Mlakar (individual unit in NSK). Parallel to this, we can observe two processes in NSK at the core of which is the question of the end of the specific avant-garde as a cultural phenomenon: Laibach realizes its ultimate goal to define all human attitudes with an aesthetic vision by abstracting eternity into an universal moment enabling cosmogony, in which everything present is until-end and permanently just-before-end simultaneously and therefore the end of the World is postponed; Irwin by the energy sculpture NSK State in Time, which as an existence is almost as much as the lives of the artists who create it, produces a tension between the finitude of its material conditions and the infinity of thinking about it – the latter transcends the lives of the artists from Irwin, and aims for an end to social antagonisms and existential traumas.
Ključne riječi
Neue Slowenische Kunst, aesthetisation of the end; social impact; avant-garde; humanitas; dialectics of the poetical
Hrčak ID:
330837
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Datum izdavanja:
13.5.2025.
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