Recent news
LAIBACH & JUNO REACTOR - DOUBLE HEADLINE TOUR
5th. to 20.th DECEMBER 2009
Laibach and Juno Reactor will join forces also on the December EU double headline tour.
The premiere show of the tour already happened on the occasion of the long-awaited opening of Kino ©iąka, a new concert venue in Ljubljana (Slovenia), on 18.9.2009.
Especially for this occasion Laibach created new versions of some of their older tracks from the first half of 1980's.
Fore more information about the show, click here.
Too see all tour dates click here.
Laibach will be performing in their home town of Trbovlje as a guest of the SPECULUM ARTIUM 09 inter-media art festival.
The open air (ticket free) concert will be held on May 15th 2009 in front of the Delavski Dom (Workers Hall), Trbovlje, at 20.30.
We are delighted to announce the opening of a large-scale Laibach exhibition in Muzeum Sztuki in Łodz (Poland), on May 26th 2009.
In 10 exhibition rooms Laibach will present the 10 Items of Covenant, 10 statements, 10 different installations. The exhibition will be a return to the group's beginnings in 1980 and span different time periods.
Laibach created some significant exhibitions between 1980 - 1985 and subsequently stepped out of the galleries, exhibiting only sporadically at different occasions, so this will be a great opportunity to draw a line and examine the other, less known, side of Laibach.
The day after the opening of exhibition Laibach will also perform the LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE program in the Filharmonia Łódzka im. Artura Rubinsteina.
The exhibition will last until August 23rd.
We would like to announce the project VOLKSWAGNER Suite - a collaborative interpretation of Wagner's music by Laibach, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, and Izidor Leitinger, conductor. Read more about this event.
18th April 2009, Gallus Hall in Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana
Volkswagner TV advertisment
To purchase a ticket, click here.
Initiator of the event is KD Group
New concert dates are announced for Volk (more info) and LKF program. (more info).
The Czech premiere of Laibachkunstderfuge on February 22th has been moved for technical reasons from the Church of St. Simon and Judy to Archa Theatre. Read more.
Laibach is announcing a tour of 12 Laibachkunstderfuge shows in different EU countries in February 2009. For more detailed information click here
The Laibach concerts scheduled for Athens and Thessalonica on February 16th and 17th, respectively, have unfortunately again been cancelled, due to local organizational problems. No substitute dates have been confirmed at this time.
Laibach would therefore like to apologize to all their fans, but they did everything in their power to make these two shows happen.
Laibach Informbiro
it is our pleasure to inform you that Laibach WTC online shop has been launched at wtc.laibach.org
Be a sovereign consumer at the official Laibach web shop or become a citizen of the fist global state of the Universe, the State of NSK, by applying for NSK State passport online.
The first 100 customers who place orders totalling over 100 EUR (excluding the shipment cost) will receive a special limited edition Laibach gift.
Sign up for a newsletter at wtc.laibach.org and stay tuned for updates.
Laibach Informbiro
[ MUTE ] will present a collection of music videos as part of the 5th Conference of Complex Systems at the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram Campus, Wise Auditorium.
The motivation behind this event is to show the interconnections between art and music, science, ideology and spiritualism.
[ God is Electricity ] is a video projection session which will focus on the more experimental artists on the label, featuring videos from Laibach, The Residents, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Komputer as well as some surprises. The program will be hosted by a MUTE representative.
This is a free event and will take place at the Wise Auditorium in the Givat Ram Campus on the 15th of September at 8PM..
[ God is Electricity ]
Laibach's US tour has been additionally sponsored by Pristop d.o.o. and Adria Airways.
New dates on the concert list:
September 27th - Mexico City (MEX)
Concert in Mexico City (MEX) will be at VDMAS Concert Hall while Tijuana concert has been cancelled.
[Laibach Volk Concerts]
Volk DVD - US release
Volk - Dead in Trbovlje DVD (Mute/EMI) will be released in the USA on September 2nd 2008.
Volk - Dead in Trbovlje DVD
DVD - Volk - Dead in Trbovlje (Mute/EMI) has been released on July 28th 2008.
DVD features footage from Volk concert in Trbovlje that took place on March
23rd 2007, music videos associated with Volk, selected film screens that are
projected during the show, and a "tour medley" as bonus material.
Concerts in USA and Mexico have been announced for following dates:
22.09. - Seattle (USA)
23.09. - Portland (USA)
25.09. - San Francisco (USA)
26.09. - Hollywood (USA)
28.09. - Tijuana B.C. (MEX)
30.09. - New York (USA)
[Laibach Volk Concerts]
On July 25th Laibach performed at the folk music festival Europeade 2008 at Les Caves du Manoir in Martigny (CH).
[Laibach Volk Concerts]
On May 31st Laibach performed on musical event A Night in Slovenia at Town Hall in New York (USA), organised by National Geographic Traveler and Slovenia Tourism Organisation.
[A Night in Slovenia]
[Laibach Volk Concerts]
LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE announced
Laibach is announcing the release of a brand new album, titled LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE.
Album is the laibachian interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's work The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge). The majority of the material has been created already in 2006 and premierly performed the same year on June the 1st at Bachfest festival in Leipzig.
LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE is available as digital download at MUTE (EMI), and as a CD record, released by Dallas Records.
The CD record will be obtainable with the launching of Laibach WTC shop, starting in May 2008.
Laibach is also announcing and confirming a short tour with LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE concert program:
28.05.2008 Vienna (A)
26.05.2008 Berlin (D)
24.05.2008 Den Haag (NL)
23.05.2008 Geneva (CH)
22.05.2008 Munich (D)
[LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE]
[LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE Concerts]
Screening of the VOLK show from Laibach's hometown Trbovlje on March 23rd 2008 on the 2nd programe of the Slovene national television (TV Slovenija 2) on Saturday, January 26th at 23:20.
[ TV SLO 2 livestream ]
Laibach's online World Trade Center is about to be launched at wtc.laibach.org
Stay tuned for updates, final countdown will start soon.
New promotional video for Rossiya, directed by nejaaka, taken from the forthcoming Laibach VOLK DVD, soon released by Mute/EMI.
Laibach Installation 'Monumental Retroavantgarde / Monumentalna Retroavantgarda' was on view at Kunsthaus Erfurt in Germany as part of the international show Kaufhaus des Ostens - KaDeOs.
Installation consists of TV interview XY - Unsolved from 1983, Laibach Einkauf (documentary by Sašo Podgoršek) and mixed media painting Monumentalna Retroavantgarda. On view from April 28th till June 16th 2007.
[KaDeOs @ Kunstaspekte]
[KaDeOs @ Bauhaus Universtitat Weimar]
Turkiye, directed by Sašo Podgoršek and released by Mute Records, is the latest promotional video taken from Volk album.
[Mute Channel at YouTube]
Divided States of America in Linz
Sašo Podgoršek's documentary film Divided States of America, was screened on Crossing Europe Festival in Linz (Austria) on 26th and 28th of April 2007.
In April 2007 film has also been invited to Singapore International Film Festival.
[Crossing Europe Festival]
[Divided States of America Trailer]
Slovania, directed by Sašo Podgoršek and released by Mute Records, is the second video taken from Volk album.
[Mute Channel at YouTube]
Laibach Focus photo retrospective was held at the Stichting Kunstapssage / Ministry of Finance in The Hague (the Netherlands) from 9th until 23rd December 2006. Exhibiton which has been produced by ArtiKraak and curated by the Photon Gallery reviewed the past quarter of a century of documentation from Laibach, exhibiting work by a number of Slovenian photographers including Vojko Flegar, Antonio Zivkovic, Bojan Salaj, Joze Suhadolnik and Jane Stravs.
[ArtiKraak]
[Photon]
The next in Laibach's series of DVD releases, 'Divided States Of America' with bonus footage of Laibach Live In Paris, was released on 13th November 2006 by Mute.
This film is a unique document of the Laibach tour, set during the traumatic post-election atmosphere in the USA, a country deeply divided by two opposite political and cultural poles. The tour has been therefore named "The Divided States of America Tour".
[Divided States of America Trailer]
[MUTE - Release Information]
Laibach Volk Concerts
Volk premiere concerts has been cancelled due to illnes in ensemble and will be organised later in springtime. NSK Citizens and friends were invited to attend a traditional Laibach welcome party at the Kum mountain near Trbovlje on 27th October at 20:00.
[Laibach Volk Concerts]
[NSKSTATE.COM]
Video for single Anglia has been released.
[Mute Channel at YouTube]
LAIBACH announced a brand new album release VOLK released on Mute on 23rd October 2006.
[Laibach - Volk]
VOLK's preceding single, ANGLIA was released on Mute on 9th October 2006.
[Laibach - Anglia]
Return of the Repressive in Birmingham
In collaboration with Capsule and Cold Spring Records, I.C.R.N. - Industrialised Culture Research Network presented Return of the Repressive at Custard Factory in Birmingham (UK) from September 1st till September 3rd 2006.
September 1st - opening of the LAIBACH KUNST inhibition "Instrumentality of the State Machine" with a live premiere of the "Laibach Concerto for Magnetophone, Gramophone, Radiophone and Megaphone"
September 2nd - screenings of rare industrial video material plus a Mutefilm screening, including Laibach videos and the British premiere of Saso Podgorsek's Laibach U.S. tour documentary Divided States of America
September 3rd - ICRN seminar featuring guest speakers and a presentation of Interrogation Machine, Alexei Monroe's book on Laibach and NSK
[ICRN - Return of the Repressive]
[Cold Spring - Laibach: Return of the Repressive]
Cherry Red downloads
Cherry Red Records, who released Laibach's Nova Akropola in 1985*, has just launched its own download site, with tracks from Nova Akropola available.
* re-released in 1987 and 2002 in CD version
Art & Music Festival in Pula
Sašo Podgoršek's documentary film "Laibach: Divided States of America" was presented at Art & Music Festival in Pula (Croatia) on 10th of August 2006.
Motovun film festival
Documentary film "Laibach: Divided States of America" directed by Sašo Podgoršek was enlisted on Motovun Film Festival programme, which took place in Motovun (Croatia) from 24th until 28th of July 2006.
LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE
Konzert für das Kreuzschach und vier Schachspieler
On June 1st 2006 the world premiere of Laibach's interpretation of Bach's Kunst der Fuge was held in Leipzig at Werk II.
A 90 min surround sound performance, titled as "Konzert fuer das Kreuzschach und vier Schachspieler", was dedicated to Bach, Schoenberg, Kraftwerk, Capt. George Hope Verney, Fisher and Spaski.
Coproduced by Bachfest / Bach-Archive, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Slovenia and others.
[photo gallery]
May 5th at 00:00 - TRANSPLANETARY SYMPHONY TITAN concert at Kibla, Maribor with VJ DEKAOS.
Interrogation Machine - Laibach and NSK
Dr. Alexei Monroe's book "Interrogation Machine - Laibach and NSK", with particular focus on the performances and productions of Laibach, was published by MIT Press on November 30th 2005.
Published in MIT's "Short Circuits" series, the book is an updated English language version of the sold-out Slovene version of the book "Pluralni monolit - Laibach in NSK" (Maska in 2003), supplemented with additional material, colour illustrations and a foreword by series editor Slavoj Zizek.
More details and order on [MIT website], via [Amazon] or via [emporio.nskstate.com].
