LAIBACH WTC SHOP RE-LAUNCHED

It is our pleasure to inform you that the Laibach WTC Shop has been relaunched at wtc.laibach.org

We have moved the WTC shop to a better and more user-friendly platform, but to do so we had to close it for a while. It is now online again, ready for the Einkauf!!

Please register at the webshop.

The WTC shop is pleased to present several new goodies: you can find new T-shirts, posters, a book and graphics.

FREE SHIPPING
Note that we are currently offering FREE SHIPPING on purchases over 150 EUR.

10% DISCOUNT
In December and January all items are available for an extra 10% DISCOUNT and you will also receive a special Christmas gift. EINKAUF!!

Laibach participates at a group exhibition, titled AT HOW MANY LUX...? in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, conducted in the framework of GLOW – festival, 05/11 – 17/12/2011, Bleekstraat 23 & Bleekweg, with installation XY-Unsolved.

For more info click here.

Raumschiff Jugoslawien

Laibach contributes to a group exhibition Raumschiff Jugoslawien – Die Aufhebung der Zeit (Spaceship Yugoslavia –The Suspension of Time)

24.September – 30. Oktober, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

For more info click here – Raumschiff Jugoslawien

VOD84: LAIBACH “Gesamtkunstwerk – Dokument 81-86“ 5 LP-deluxe Box with DVD / Illustrated 36-page-Booklet / Metal-Badge / Poster / Postcards

This ultra-deluxe leather-bound box set comes in a cross-like holder for the five Vinyl discs and also includes a DVD with two outstanding live-performances from 1982 and 1984 plus a large poster,10 postcards, a metal enamel-badge as well as an extensive 36-page booklet illustrated with archive photos of Laibach’s hometown Trbovlje.

The Box focusses on Laibach’s early years as a provocative performance-music-and-multimedia-group and includes early studio and unreleased recordings in combination with many legendary live-documents from the 1981-1986 period, all previously unreleased on vinyl.

Lp1 contains unpublished and rare, early 80’s studio-recordings in Ljubljana (Slovenia) plus 1982 live-recordings from former Yugoslavia from Belgrade (Serbia) and Zagreb (Croatia)

Lp2 contains two performances from Ljubljana in 1982 and 1984: Side A from the Novi-Rock-Festival 1982 and Side B from December 1984 at Malči Belič Hall

Lp3 contains two Berlin (West Germany) performances from 1983 and 1985: the live Berlin Metropol 1983 tape known as “Vstajenje v Berlinu” and the Berlin Atonal festival performance from 17. February 1985

Lp4 contains two performances from Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1985, which were previously released on the Staalplaat Tape “Ein Schauspieler.”

Lp5 contains the concert in the village of “Hum” near Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in 1986 which was the first (semi)-legal concert in Slovenia after their ban in 1983. At this concert Laibach was finally able to perform again with its full name on the poster, although the ban on this remained in force until 1987. The concert was organised by the local cell of the Union of Socialist Youth of Slovenia and recorded by Ernest Žnidaršič. The concert began with Laibach cutting a large amplified log of wood and culiminated in the use of a chainsaw. This was the only show where the group used a chainsaw.

The DVD includes two more former Yugoslav live-performances from 1982 and 1984..The first is the second Zagreb-performance at YURM-Festival in December 1982 also known as Touch of Evil featuring founding member Tomaž Hostnik who committed suicide shortly after the concert as well as the legendary clandestine concert in a venue in Dom Malči Beličeve (the house of the socialist heroine Malči Belič in Ljubljana) where Laibach performed “incognito” on 21st December 1984. Zagreb performance was filmed by Šime Strikoman and used by his kind permission. Ljubljana performance was filmed by Marjan Osole – Max and used by his kind permission.

The booklet texts compiled and edited by Alexei Monroe offer an opportunity to explore and understand in detail the origins, mission, methodologies and ideologies that shaped the Gesamtkunstwerk Laibach. The texts are by Alexei Monroe, Aleš Leko Gulič, Donald Campbell, Michael Goddard and legendary Slovene music promoter Igor Vidmar.

Laibach show in Pula

Laibach has confirmed that it will play a show in the fabulous Roman Arena in Pula, Croatia, on August 18th, 2011. The performance will be part of a summer festival; Laibach will play together with Guano Apes and Apocalyptica.

To read about the history of the Arena in Pula click here.

Laibach Informbiro

LAIBACH CONTRIBUTED TO A PROJECT, DEDICATED TO AMERICAN MUSIC ICON BOB DYLAN

Laibach has contributed to a project, dedicated to American music icon Bob Dylan, who this year celebrates his 70th birthday. The U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana is planning to showcase Dylan’s legacy with this project, and also to promote volunteerism among Slovenia’s youth. The Embassy is marking Dylan’s May 24th birthday by releasing a CD featuring many well-known Slovenian musicians, each covering a different Dylan song. Laibach did an interpretation of his "Ballad of a Thin Man". For obtaining the free CD, write e-mail to: ljuDylanProject@state.gov

Laibach @ Mute Festival in Roundhouse, London

As part of its third leg on its “Revisited” tour, Laibach performed on 14 May 2011 at the 2-day Short Circuit Electronic Music Festival in London’s cult-venue Roundhouse, where bands such as Pink Floyd, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix Experience and the renowned radical theatre group The Living Theatre gave historical performances in the 1960s. Laibach took the mainstage on the third and final day of the festival, following bands such as The Liars, The Residents and Erasure with guests Alison Moyet and Feargal Sharkey. Before and after Laibach, Andy Fletcher and Martin Gore from Depeche Mode played DJ sets on the same stage. At the end of their set, Laibach played a cover version of the legendary hit “Warm Leatherette”, which more than 30 years earlier marked the beginning of the label Mute Records, the host of the festival.

The third teaser for the movie Iron Sky, titled “We Come in Peace!” has been released. Laibach is doing the music for this film.

The movie will be released on 4 April 2012!

Laibach show in MACBA

On 12 May 2011, Laibach played a special (sold-out) “installation performance” of Die Kunst der Fuge at MACBA – Barcelona’s celebrated Museum of Contemporary Art. The event took place alongside the opening of a large retrospective exhibition of Eastern European arts entitled Museum of Parallel Narratives (1956-1986). In the framework of l’Internationale, which was curated by Zdenka Badovinac and organised and produced by Ljubljana’s Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija) in cooperation with Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA); the Július Koller Society (SJK), Bratislava; the Van Abbemuseum (VAM), Eindhoven; and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (M HKA), Antwerp.

HDLU, Zagreb (HR) - 27.05.2011 @ 19:00h

The group members will hold a guided tour on their exhibition "Ceci N'est Pas Malevitch" on Friday, 27th May in HDLU. The exhibition explains their work and influences from their beginnings in the 80's and how their perspective on art, music, life and aesthetics changed through 30 years of existence on the art and music scene. The guided tour on Friday is a symbolical end of the exhibition where the Laibach members will explain their art and work in person.

Laibach Informbiro

AUSSTELLUNG LAIBACH KUNST 1980 -2011 - ‘CECI N’EST PAS MALEVICH!’

Opening: Friday, May 6, 2011, at 8 p.m.

Dom hrvatskih likovnih umjetnika/Croatian Artists' Centre
Trg žrtava fašizma bb
10000 Zagreb

After 28 years group Laibach returns to the PM Gallery in Zagreb, at which, because of political pressures, their 1983 exhibition was interrupted and closed after only three days of viewing.

The Croatian public will have the chance to see, for the first time, in all the gallery venues of the the Croatian Artists’ Centre, in the visual form of this extensive retrospective exhibition, the key poetics of their development (the collective, the anonymous, appropriation, over-identification, retro-avant-garde principle, quotation, remake, collage, recontextualisation…) from their first decade, the 1980s, until the present day. The exhibition will show the most important phases of the development of this visionary group from the early 80s onwards, presented through multimedia installations, oil paintings, prints, photographs, video, sound, printed media, manifests and documents.

At the opening, Laibach members will put on a short sound performance.

Laibach's solo concert show in relation with the current exhibition in Zagreb will happen on May 21st in the Boogaloo venue (ex. RANS Mosa Pijade venue, where Laibach held their famous incriminated Music Biennale show in 1983)!

hdlu@hdlu.hr
+385 (0)1 4611 818

The exhibition will be on view until May 26, every working day from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., at weekends from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., closed Mondays and public holidays.

The dates for the March and May 2011 European tour have been confirmed. Laibach will play the “Laibach Revisted” program – new interpretations of songs from the 80s (Boji, Smrt za Smrt, Država, Brat moj, Ti ki izzivaš, Nova Akropola, etc. ...) and a selection of songs from other Laibach albums.

Check the tourdates!

Ausstellung Laibach Kunst - Perspektive 1980 - 2011

Press Conference: Wednesday, 23 February at 11.00
Opening: Thursday, 24 February at 19.00

Laibach and Umetnostna Galerija Maribor (UGM) are pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Ausstellung Laibach Kunst – Perspectives 2011 on February 24th, 2011.

Laibach are returning to the exhibition space. The exhibition comprises twelve rooms presenting key stages of Laibach’s work from the first decade of their career in the 1980s up to the present. The works on display include multi-media installations, oil paintings, photographs, graphic works, and film. The majority of works were not contained in last year’s exhibitions at MGCL Ljubljana and Delavski Dom Trbovlje. A new installation created especially for this exhibition, titled Artist Perspective, will be on view. This is the biggest Laibach Kunst exhibition in Slovenia to date.

Since their formation in the early 1980s, Laibach have been engaged in an obsessive dialogue with the totalitarian ideologies of modernity and their relation to art. Far from being solely intelligible in the cultural context of 1980s Yugoslavia, their work still offers critical perspectives to a globalized world which continues to be affected by modernity’s conceptions the state, the individual, mass culture, art, and politics.

The exhibition opens new perspectives on Laibach by highlighting their original beginnings as an ‘arts’ collective. Although Laibach have repeatedly rejected this designation, their self-fashioning as ‘engineers of the human soul’ is telling of the degree to which all of Laibach’s performances have sought to ironize and collapse clear-cut categories such as ‘art’, ‘politics’, and ‘popular culture’. Despite their influence on established artists, theorists and wider audiences, Laibach occupy an unframed position in the national and international art scene today. Their explorations into the world of popular music have gained them international renown. However, all of their performances have been radically self-reflexive in a way that responds to the functions ascribed to ‘political art’ in contemporary society, rather than to the consumerist and escapist nature of popular music. With their performances on diverse stages such as galleries, concert halls, opera houses, TV, internet, video, theatre, industrial power plants and shopping malls, Laibach represent a unique challenge to the categories established by Western art criticism.

The exhibition is co-curated by Claudia Richter and coordinated by Simona Vidmar.

It will run until April 17, 2011.

On May 14th Laibach will perform a special concert at London’s historic Roundhouse as part of the annual Short Circuit Electronic Music Festival, hosted by Mute Records. The 2-day-event will feature performances and unique collaborations from Mute artists past, present and future alongside DJs, talks, workshops, screenings, and installations. A celebration of Mute’s unique and influential work as a label and publisher, the occasion will see all of the Roundhouse's public spaces open together for the first time.

To read more about the event - click here and here!

Europe Today

Slovenian National Theatre Maribor (SNG Maribor)
Premiere: February 16th, 2011 – 20.00h
Reprise: February 17th, 2011 – 20.00h
http://eastwest.ba/europe-today/

In one of the biggest coproductions in the South East Europe in years, the East West Theatre Company Sarajevo together with the largest theatre in Slovenia – Slovenian National Theatre, Maribor and European Cultural Capital 2012 Maribor have produced a new show, titled "Europe Today", based on the text of Miroslav Krleža and directed by Haris Pašović in collaboration with some of the finest artists in the region: Miki Manojlović, an actor; Edward Clug, a contemporary dancer and choreographer and the neoclassical industrial group Laibach. The dramaturge of the production is Dubravka Vrgoč. These artists come from Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia.

Has been an European idea defecting Europe? What is the view on Europe of this artistic all-star line-up coming from South East Europe, both a dramatic and fascinating European region? Miki Manojlović plays this show with an anger, poignancy and vulnerability comparable to Lenny Bruce. Manojlović matches on stage the energy of the band Laibach performing live their dark, yet exhilarating music. Edward Clug, a virtuoso contemporary dancer, plays his solos with uplifting strength and tender softness. An expressive video contributes a powerful visual universe to this awakening show.

Miroslav Krleža is the greatest Croatian writer ever. In 1935 he wrote a famous essay “Europe Today,” which in 2011 appears to us as shockingly contemporary! In his words, our Europe shows up naked with no place to hide. 75 years has passed since he wrote his impeccable analysis of Europe and yet, it doesn’t seem that much has changed in the deepest European social, political and metaphysical matrix.

Haris Pašović has been one of the leading theatre directors in the South East Europe for more than two decades. While some of his productions remain as the landmarks in the theatre of the former Yugoslavia, his current work “Class Enemy”, “Football, Football”, “Hamlet”, etc.) have been acclaimed worldwide (Edinburgh International Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Singapore Arts Festival, National Arts Festival of South Africa, etc). During the siege of Sarajevo (1992-95) Pasovic spent most of the time in Sarajevo directing the MES International Theatre Festival. In 1993, he organized the first Sarajevo Film Festival called “Beyond The End Of The World”. He also produced several shows, among others “Waiting for Godot”, directed by Susan Sontag in 1993 in the besieged city. Pašović is a director of the East West Theatre Company, Sarajevo.

Miki Manojlović is considered by many as one of the greatest actors of all times in the Balkans, an European actor internationally acclaimed (European Film Academy Award, 2007 Best Actor – Nominee; Best Actor – 2010 Gotham Screen Film Festival, New York. He used to work with the directors such as Peter Brook, Danis Tanović, Sam Garbarski, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Haris Pašović, Jérôme Salle, Emir Kusturica, Stefan Komandarev and many others).

The music and additional text in the show is performed live by Laibach, a Slovenian retro-avant-garde band. In their music they successfully combine the industrial, neoclassical and martial elements creating an original, highly spirited works. They have been among the most controversial artistic groups in Europe for decades, often provoking heated debates. They have been accused both by the far left and far right for being too extreme. Laibach was banned a couple of times in the former Yugoslavia as well as in parts of Europe. The popular German band Rammstein has acknowledged that they have been hugely influenced by both the aesthetic approach and material of Laibach. Laibach are joined on stage by beautiful and electric Mina Špiler, frontwomen of the band Melodrom.

Edward Clug, an artistic director of the ballet of Slovenian National Theatre, Maribor is a hot fast-rising star in international contemporary dance with his widely acclaimed choreographies (“Radio and Juliet”, Slovenian National Theatre Maribor; “Separations” Marinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg; “Four Reasons,” National Ballet of Portugal). Clug is an artistic director of the Ballet of the Slovenian National Theatre.

Dubravka Vrgoč is considered one of the finest dramaturges in the Balkans. She is also a director of the today’s most successful Croatian theatre – ZKM.

The visual film & design team Nejaaka, the rising stars of the Slovenian design, are creating impressive film projections for the production, joined by Sašo Podgoršek, one of the most influential Slovenian video director, who also contributes his high-octane videos for some of the Laibach songs.

The dates for the December 2010 European tour have been confirmed. Laibach will play the “Laibach Revisted” program – new interpretations of songs from the 80s (Boji, Smrt za Smrt, Država, Brat moj, Ti ki izzivaš, Nova Akropola, etc. ...) and a selection of songs from other Laibach albums.

The second part of the tour is expected in March 2011.

Check the tourdates!

Laibach Kunst exhibitions in Zagreb & Maribor

The Laibach Kunst exhibition in HDLU Zagreb (CRO), originally planned for 23 November 2010, has been postponed till May 2011.

On 24 February 2011 a big retrospective Laibach Kunst exhibition will open in UGM Art Gallery in Maribor (SLO) and will last till 17 April 2011.

RED DISTRICTS + BLACK CROSS 2010 PRESS CONFERENCE

A press conference about Laibach's 30th anniversary event in Trbovlje will take place at 11.00 on 09.09.2010 at the ŠKUC Gallery, Stari trg 21, Ljubljana. The press conference will include members of Laibach, the director of Delavski Dom Trbovlje, and a representative of the ŠKUC Gallery.

The venue for the postponed Laibach concert in Ptuj is now confirmed. The show will take place on 11 September 2010, at Qcenter, Puhova Street, Ptuj. Laibach will play the festival program.

Laibach's Einkauf installation in Galerie Seiler
Munich, Sept. 10 – 12

Read the installation flyer.

Opening:

Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010

Galerie Seiler
Grünwalder Str. 5
D-81547 München

www.galerie-seiler.com

Opening hours:
Friday 3 pm - 7 pm
Sat. & Sun. 11 am - 6 pm

Owing to weather-related technical complications the Laibach show in Ptuj (SLO) is postponed until 11. September 2010. The location of the show will be announced as soon as possible. RSVP to our Facebook or Myspace event to be automatically updated with the latest information or check the tour dates section of the Laibach webpage in a few days.

New Laibach Kunst Web Page

A dedicated web page for September's Trbovlje Laibach Kunst (RED DISTRICT + BLACK CROSS) event has been launched at: http://www.laibachkunst.com/

More information can also be found at: //http://www.dd-trbovlje.si/2010/08/3271//

Volkswagner on TV SLO

Watch Laibach's VOLKSWAGNER project in collaboration with RTV Slovenia's Symphonic orchestra on Monday, the 2nd of August, on TV Slovenia 1, at 23:30h.

After 30 years the group Laibach returns to Delavski Dom Trbovlje, where it will carry out a multimedia action, originally banned by local authorities in 1980.

On the 27th of September 1980 the group Laibach, formed that year in Trbovlje, prepared it's ‘coming out’ under the patronage of Ljubljana's ŠKUC Gallery. This was its first proper live performance, and first public happening in the form a multimedia action, an event that would represent an ‘alternative to the (official, centralistic) Slovenian culture’ and would shock and awaken the Red District which was at the time slumbering, poisoned and saturated by soc-realism and provincialism, with its brutish and avant-garde approach. The single day Blitzkrieg event was conceptualized as a poster action (night postering of Trbovlje), a concert of anarcho-industrial music (featuring Laibach, Kaos and Berlinski zid) and as an exhibition of paintings, collages, graphics and short films (Ausstellung Laibach Kunst).

Even though the local authorities banned the entire event before its opening, and although of the entire planned event Laibach only managed the night postering action, it proved to be a perfect success as this event which never happened and it's banning caused a number of controversial discussions within the the nascent Slovene civil society, selected print media (Mladina, Tribuna) and radio (Radio Študent). Such was the birth of Laibach into the Slovene and Yugoslav reality of the 1980s.

30 years after the incident, Laibach returns to the scene of the crime and is preparing a partial reconstruction - a new multimedia happening in its birthplace. This multi-day event will retrospectively address the same contextual and formal parameters active in the 1980s. In the light of the temporal distance and the new socio-political paradigm of the present, this action will generate and assume new meanings and interpretations which will continue to reverberate for some time.

23rd of September at 20:00 – Opening of the spatial installation RED DISTRICT + BLACK CROSS in the lobby of Delavski dom Trbovlje. The exhibition will run until October 20th 2010. Side event: exhibition DOCUMENTS 1980 will be set in the Slavček (Choir Nightingale) room of Delavski dom. Laibach Kunst will also carry out some spatial interventions in the surroundings of Cementarna Trbovlje (Lafarge), Termoelektrarna Trbovlje Power Station (TET II) and the TV broadcasting tower on Mount Kum.

24th and 25th of September at 20:00 Laibach will perform two concerts in the theatre hall of Delavski dom Trbovlje and on 26th of September the group will also perform a J.S. Bach inspired show LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE on Mount Kum.

24th, 25th and 26th of September a three day Red District Symposium (‘Past Perfect – Future Tense’) will take place in Delavski dom. This international seminar aims to review the events since the appearance of Laibach 30 years ago, key moments in Laibach’s development, the history of Neue Slowenische Kunst and the development of the NSK State.

Laibach at Schwarzgold exhibition

Laibach is participating at SCHWARZGOLD exhibition in the Shloss Beesenstedt near Halle an der Saale which starts on July 17th, 2010 and is opened till 1st of August 2010. Exhibition is currated by Claudia Richter and Joanna Zawodzinska.

On 30 May in front of MGLC in Tivoli Park, where the GESAMTKUNST LAIBACH – Fundamentals 1980 – 1990 is being held, the original Laibach act from 1981-82 (Eber, Saliger, Dachauer in Keller) reconstructed a concert programme from the beginning of the 80s.

GESAMTKUNST LAIBACH – Fundamentals 1980 - 1990

GUIDED TOURS:

Sunday, 30 May, 12.00: Laibach
Sunday, 6 June, 12.00: Darij Zadnikar, philosopher

Sunday 30 May, 21.00: Laibach are preparing a surprise sound & music soirée at the MGLC plateau with very special guests.

The exhibition is on view until 6th June 2010, from Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Address:
Mednarodni graficni likovni center MGLC, Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3, 1000 Ljubljana

Laibach will perform a concert on 30th July 2010 at the Grossmann festival in Ljutomer (SLO), dedicated to fantastic, ferocious cult cinema... and fantastic ferocious wines!

Discussions are currently underway for a very special Laibach Kunst exhibition during the festival in Ljutomer.

Laibach's Opus Dei album on the list of “300 essential albums” in Metal Hammer

The may issue of the largest selling monthly heavy metal magazine published in the UK, Metal Hammer http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/magazine/, is presenting '300 essential albums ‘You Must Hear Before You Die' ('the finest metal records ever forged') and Laibach's Opus Dei album is included in the selection.

In the year 1945 the Nazis went to Moon, and in 2018 they are coming back. This is the premise of the sci-fi film Iron Sky, the upcoming movie project from the creators of the hugely popular internet hit Star Wreck. Laibach was asked to provide the soundtrack for the movie and has invited Ben Watkins (Juno Reactor) in collaboration on production of the score.

Laibach show in Moscow

Check out the one-off Laibach show in Moscow (RUS) on 19th May 2010 at Club B-1 Maximum.

The St. Petersburg concert planned for 18th May 2010 was cancelled due to technical reasons and postponed until Autumn 2010.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of Laibach in the mining town of Trbovlje, Slovenia, in what was then part of Yugoslavia. Best known as avant-garde musical provocateurs, Laibach began life as an artist’s collective, whose early multi-media work encompassed painting and printmaking alongside music, video, film, and performance.

Taking history, politics, and ideology as Duchampian readymades, the early exhibitions and actions of the group presented visual iconography that drew upon and merged socialist, nationalist, and fascist tropes of representation. With their founding of the larger NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst) collective in 1984, Laibach concentrated on music and performance as the main platform for the presentation of their work, which continued to be augmented by Laibach Kunst, or the group’s visual art practice/aesthetic approach. In 1992, and with the break up of Yugoslavia, NSK declared itself a State. A utopian social sculpture with no national or physical boundaries, the NSK State opened temporary consulates in a number of cities and issued passports, some of which were used by NSK citizens to escape war torn Sarajevo in the early 90s.

To continue reading click here.

Overidentification and/or bust?
Text by Stevphen Shukaitis

In 1987, Laibach, the musical wing of the Slovenian art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art, or NSK), released a reworked version of the Queen song ‘One Vision’. Whereas the original 1985 Queen song was inspired by the group’s participation in Live Aid and espoused a seemingly somewhat vague leftist message of unity and world peace, it was vastly transformed in Laibach’s reworking. While lyrics about there being one race, vision and solution might easily be passed over as innocuous or not even taken notice of in the context provided by a Queen performance, the lyrics’ submerged obscene meaning becomes readily apparent as it is translated into German and played along in a droning, militaristic style. Laibach’s version of the song, far from being a cover or simple copy, through its transformation draws out and amplifies the grotesque parallels between the pleasures of pop culture and fascist modulation of crowd emotion through propaganda and epic scale theatricality.2 But why did Laibach do this; famous for always remaining in character, are they fascists or not? Laibach’s performances (as well as the work of the rest of the projects within the NSK) are premised on undercutting straightforward distinctions through the use of totalitarian aesthetics and a bastardization of nationalist themes. Laibach and the NSK operate by displaying the imagery, the codes of fascism and state power, pushing it to its limit, recombining it with other elements, other traditions, forging connections that “expose the ‘hidden reverse’ of a regime or ideology”.3 Laibach are, and claim to be, fascists as much as Hitler was a painter.

To continue reading click here.

GESAMTKUNST LAIBACH, Fundamentals 1980 - €“1990

We cordially invite you to attend the opening of the exhibition GESAMTKUNST LAIBACH – fundamentals 1980 – 1990.

The opening of the exhibition is on Thursday, 15th April 2010 at 8. P.m. at the International Centre of Graphical Art (MGLC - castle Tivoli, Ljubljana).

Official after party: Zeleni Zajec (Green Rabbit's) bar, Rožna ulica 3, Ljubljana (old part of the city).

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LAIBACH ŁODZ EXHIBITION CATALOGUE RELEASED

The Palac Sztuki museum of modern art in Łodz has finally released the catalogue of the Laibach exhibition held in the museum from May 26th until the end of August 2009. The full colour catalogue AUSSTELLUNG LAIBACH KUNST REKAPITULACJA / RECAPITULATION 2009 includes selected Laibach visual works from the end of 1970 until today, and separately presents works and installations from the Łodz exhibition. The catalogue also includes the most important manifestos and other Laibach texts, as well as rare photos and documents from the exhibition opening. The catalogue presents nine essays discussing Laibach, authored by Wiktor Skok, Taras Kermauner, Lev Kreft, Slavoj Žižek, Aleš Erjavec, Alexei Monroe, and Eda Čufer. All texts are published in both Polish and English. The catalogue is now available at the Laibach WTC shop.

Laibach's Łodz exhibition was included in Kasia Zalewska's Top 10 shows in Poland in 2009, published on the Saatchi Online Magazine.

The exhibition at the Palac Sztuki museum together with the Laibach concert (Die Kunst der Fuge) at the Łódzka Filharmonia im. Artura Rubinsteina (Arthur Rubinstein Łodz Philharmonic Venue) was also nominated by the important Łodz Gazeta newspaper for the best cultural event of 2009 in Poland.

Promises of the Past

With their video work XY Unsolved (1983, video interview, 12'56'') Laibach will participate in the exhibition "Promises of the Past", between 26.5.-16.6.2010, at "Centre Pompidou", Paris, France. Laibach's work will be included in one of the five programs, together with films and videos that treat the subject of engaged artistic positions and subversive practices from the artists Irwin, Anonymous Artist, Milan Knizak, Zelimir Zilnik, and Endre Tot. The films will be presented as a projection on a screen of 4x3m in the auditorium, within the ambiental installation conceived by Tobias Putrih.

REVIEWS & SELECTIONS

The 2009 December issue of influential British magazine Classic Rock selected Laibach's album Opus Dei (Mute Records 1987) as one of the five most essential industrial rock albums of all times. The same album has also been recognised by leading international critics as one of the top 1000 albums of all time (1001 Albums you must hear before you die, 2005, Quintet Publishing Limited).

Catherine Wood, the curator of contemporary art and performance at the Tate Modern, included the LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE performance at London's Bush Hall (February 2009) in her selection of the ten best art events of 2009, published in the leading international contemporary art magazine Artforum, December 2009.

The important British music magazine Mojo published a one page review of Laibach's album Volk in their 2009 December issue, written by Roy Wilkinson.

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 Šiška, 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.

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.

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]

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]

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]

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.

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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]

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].