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The Art Projects Network announces art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst as part of cultural program for European Enlargement celebrations in May 2004.
(The Art Projects Network, Dublin, Wednesday, 10 December 2003)
The Art Projects Network today announced its programming for the celebration of European Enlargement in May 2004. Working with Helena Drnovsek-Zorko, Slovenian Ambassador in Ireland, The Art Projects Network will present the first Dublin visit of the Art Collective Neue Slowenische Kunst.
As one of the largest of the cultural events planned for during the enlargement process, the NSK collective will provide Theatre, Visual Arts, Music, and Performances at a number of locations in Dublin City.
The event will be opened with the establishment of an NSK “State in Time” Passport Office. The Office will be located in the Project Arts Centre and will be open to the general public. At the passport office visitors will be given the opportunity of taking out citizenship in the first non-geographic global state. Visitors will also have the opportunity of finding out more about this unique art collective, their work, belief system, and about the events happening throughout the city.
Also taking place in Project Arts Centre, the NSK Art Collective IRWIN will give their first ever Dublin show. Tracing the events of enlargement, IRWIN will present their viewpoint on the EAST WEST dialogue that is being entered into by the enlargement process. They will also unveil a new work that will be commissioned specifically for this Dublin event.
In Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, the NSK Department of Pure & Applied Philosophy, under the direction of Peter Mlakar, will provide an artistic/philosophical performance on three forms of absolute evil, and how this evil is manifested in the contemporary and real world. Mlakar’s work is at once both provocative and spectacular.
In The Helix, the NOORDUNG theatre company under the direction of Dragan Živadinov will give a performance of his work SUPREMAT. Based around texts of the Russian Avant Garde, Supremat is a performance dealing with final issues - faith, death, the end of the world, and God. The references are those of the Neue Slowenische Kunst and the retro-avant-garde. The true power of Supremat lies in authenticity, drive, impetuousness, immediateness, and rapture - in addition to its theatrical image.
The NSK film Predictions of Fire will be shown in the Irish Film Centre. Predictions of Fire provides a unique insight to the early days of the NSK in the former Yugoslavia.
The Temple Bar Music Centre will see a performance of the music group LAIBACH. Currently on a world tour for their new album WAT, Laibach have included Dublin on their list of cities. Laibach began working in 1980 and was mainly oriented to popular music, although it associated different levels of work from the beginning, including gallery and theater installations. Laibach are seen historically as the pre-cursors of Industrial music, and continue to adapt and renew their style.
To contextualise all of this event The European Institute in University College Dublin will host a two day seminar concerning Post-imperial and post-socialist artistic strategies: Ireland and Slovenia from 1960s on. During this seminar leading academics and art practitioners will share the common experience of life and work in both Slovenia and Ireland.
When asked about the event Noel Kelly of The Art Projects Network said “It is a very exciting opportunity for Dublin to have the Neue Slowenische Kunst event during the enlargement celebrations. Their unique approach to both Art and the role of statehood will make for an interesting dialogue that we hope will capture people’s imagination in the same way it has captured our’s. We are very grateful to Ambassador Drnovsek-Zorko for the opportunity of working with these leading proponents of the Retro-Avant-Garde, and know that both the intellectual and visual spectacle that is NSK will provide Dublin with lots to talk about.”
Dates:
Press Launch & Reception: April 29th 2004
Conference: April 29th & 30th 2004
Passport Office: April 29th to May 2nd 2004
IRWIN: April 30th to May 7th 2004
Department of Pure & Applied Philosophy: May 1st 2004
Film: May 3rd 2004
Noordung: May 3rd to May 5th 2004
Laibach: May 5th 2004
The Art Projects Network is currently compiling a media list of interviews for the NSK members. If you would like to be included then contact us at nsk_interviews@artprojectsnetwork.net
For a pre-event Press Pack register at
press_packs@artprojectsnetwork.net
For inclusion on the invitation list for the opening events contact us at nsk_invitation@artprojectsnetwork.net
The Art Projects Network is an independent network of art professionals dedicated to the representation of Contemporary Art both in Ireland and Internationally.
Contact Details:
The Art Projects Network
Studio 7, The Fire Station Artists’ Studios
9 - 11 Lower Buckingham Street, Dublin 1
Contact Phone: (086) 2471114
Contact Person: Noel Kelly - Partner: Programs & Projects
Website: http://www.artprojectsnetwork.net |
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