Recent news
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.
Laibach Informbiro
August 27th – September 5th: by appointment only
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//
Tickets for the two Laibach shows in Delavski dom Trbovlje on September 24th and 25th are now on sale through Eventim and at the Delavski Dom Trbovlje cashier’s desk: blagajna.ddt@siol.net, tel: +386 03 563 3482
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.
Laibach confirmed new concert dates in Slovenia, UK and Germany. For more information click here.
RED DISTRICT + BLACK CROSS
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.
Programe:
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.
THE CHRISTMAS BALL FESTIVAL 2010
26. 12. 2010 _ Hannover / Capitol
27. 12. 2010 _ Köln / Theater am Tanzbrunnen
28. 12. 2010 _ Würzburg / Posthalle
29. 12. 2010 _ Berlin / Huxley`s
More info: http://www.myspace.com/protainballs
At 12.00 on Sunday 6 June, the last day of the exhibition, a guided tour of the exhibition will be led by dr. Darij Zadnikar.
Address:
Mednarodni graficni likovni center MGLC, Grad Tivoli, Pod turnom 3, 1000 Ljubljana
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.
The Banja Luka concert planned for 4th June 2010 was cancelled due to technical reasons and postponed until August 2010.
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.
See the teaser of the movie: http://www.ironsky.net/
Guided tour on Sunday, 23 May at 12 a.m. by Barbara Borčić.
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 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.
In conversation: LAIBACH with Conor McGrady and Dario Šolman
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.
Guided tour on Sunday, 9 May at 12 a.m. by Alexei Monroe.
Alexei Monroe holds a PhD in Communication and Image Studies from the University of Kent. He writes on the aesthetics and politics of electronic music and wider issues of cultural theory. He is the author of Pluralni monolit: Laibach in NSK (Maska 2003) and Interrogation Machine (MIT Press 2005).
Guided Tours on Sundays at 12 a.m.
23. maj / 23 May: Barbara Borcic
30. maj / 30 May: Laibach
6. junij / 6 June: Darij Zadnikar
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
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).
Read more
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.
For its 30th Anniversary, Laibach is announcing three large-scale introspective exhibitions in 2010, in Ljubljana, Zagreb, and Trbovlje. Each of these exhibitions will present different aspect of Laibach's visual and multimedia art. The Trbovlje exhibition will open in the Delavski Dom on September 26th, 30 years after the very first (forbidden) Laibach appearance at the same place in Laibach's home town. The Zagreb exhibition at the HDLU is scheduled for November, and the Ljubljana exhibition at the MGLC (International Centre of Graphic Arts), Tivoli Castle in Park Tivoli, will open on April 15th 2010.
Parallel exhibitions of Laibach graphic art and selected merchandise items will go on at the same time in Ljubljana gallery Galerija Luwigana and at Galerija 14 at Bled.
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.
Laibach is also participating in DORM exhibition - an artist-collective project -at The Model's galleries in Sligo, Ireland, which starts on May 1st, 2010.
More links:
http://www.facebook.com/TheModelSligo
http://www.twitter.com/modelsligo
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.
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].
