Plakati

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- Posters
- Plakati
1987
11 posters, screenprint on paper, various sizes (approx. DIN A1)

The NSK posters comprise a variety of announcements and slogans around this Slovenian art movement from the 1980s, some of which specifically refer to the Laibach group and operate as self-contained posters. Sometimes Laibach would use them for concerts on their tours and then add further details. In most of their text phrases, moments of Germanophilia are detectable, for instance the slogan “Freedom guides the people,” which can be found in German (Die Freiheit führt das Volk), but also in French (La liberté guidant le peuple). Alexei Monroe remarks on this phenomenon: “The Germanic references reflect historical authoritarian-Germanophile tendencies within Slovene society, but cannot be equated with the self-negating aspect of Slovene Germanophilia which was the ethnic expression of both pragmatic self-assimilation and political reaction. NSK monumentally asserts a full range of Slovene identity, its Slav as well as Germanic components.” 1 Other posters created for specific events announce the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre performance “Krst pod Triglavom / Baptism by Triglav” at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana or “Rdeči revirji / Red Districts” the exhibition by IRWIN at Mala Galerija (Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art) in Ljubljana in 1985. W.S.

1 Alexei Monroe. Interrogation machine: Laibach and NSK. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. p.143.