Laibach Kunst: Red District + Black Cross.
Delavski dom Trbovlje
www.laibachkunst.com
The group Laibach and Delavski dom Trbovlje in cooperation with ŠKUC
Gallery, Ljubljana invites you to a four days event with the title Red
District + Black Cross, 1980 – 2010. The exhibition, concerts and the
Symposium will start with the opening night on 23rd of September at 8
p.n. in Delavski dom Trbovlje.
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 conceptualised 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.
Programme:
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.
The event is organised by Trbovlje Newmedia Setting and Delavski dom
Trbovlje in cooperation with ŠKUC Gallery, Ljubljana. The symposium is
organised by Alexei Monroe and Naomi Hennig in association with Delavski
dom Trbovlje
www.laibachkunst.com/
www.laibach.nsk.si/
www.dd-trbovlje.si/
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