The future of the NSK State is dependent on citizen involvement. Citizen involvement is dependent on communication. The NSK State News fulfills both these requirements. Using this framework the citizens of the state will now be able to communicate with each other, while maintaining a unified front to the rest of the world. This is just the beginning.

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.

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It is no wonder that us delegates of the First NSK Citizen’s Congress do not haste in submitting our reports, for we are destined to serve as poets, and not clerks, of statist organisation. Our grasp of diplomatic duty is therefore fanatical, capricious and stormy, and it is in this context that I therefore applaud the words expressed on our beloved NSK Times in honour of the ‘rebel document’ – we are indeed all suspended between a lifetime of otherness, autonomy, upheaval and individuality and a yearning to belong – to find a place to call home (Heimat), to which we would be willingly giving our souls away. (continue reading…)

Too kind? Too consensual? How much are we the slaves of our own politeness?

A smooth taste of bitterness and sweetness lingers after this event.

This congress was a unique experiment for my short living existence.

The main feeling that surrounded me and is still surrounds me is the impression of an invisible but tangible link between most of the delegates. (continue reading…)

NSK State Delegates at a working group session during the First NSK Citizens’ Congress.

NSK State in Time is transfigurating with and in time, which is State’s territory. Now we are able to see it clearly that citizens are taking responsibility for their State and truly want to affect on its development. The Congress is a proof of that.
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Eric Beckett Weaver reading “The Atomic Declaration of Dependence” at the closing ceremony of the First NSK Citizens’ Congress.

The Atomic Declaration of Dependence was an expected surprise for all of us. This pirate manifesto is the manifestation, the focus, the epicentre and the crystallization of the despair of each delegate. A despair that each delegate was unable or unwilling to verbalise. Moreover, it is the statement of the “self-detestation/self-de-state-tation” that we were all carrying within our minds. The signatories are simultaneously accusing the representatives of NSK, the body of the delegates, the congress… and themselves. During the demonstration of self-inflicted diplomacy and courtesy known as the congress, a huge beast was growing behind our faces, inside our minds. We didn’t need to sign the Atomic Declaration of Dependence. We had already mentally signed it exactly at the moment we entered the site of the congress, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. (continue reading…)