IRWIN – TIME FOR A NEW STATE
NSK State – NSK FOLK ART
04 April – 24 June 2012

IRWIN: State in Time, London, 2012
in collaboration with Calvert 22 and Tate Modern
Billboard location: Elephant & Castle

Calvert 22 is delighted to welcome the most influential art movement to emerge from the Balkan region in the latter half of the 20th Century – Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK).

TIME FOR A NEW STATE is part of a London wide presentation in cooperation with Tate, who will be hosting a Symposium (14 April), and which will also comprise of a music performance at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall (14 April), an exhibition of archival material at Chelsea Space (Chelsea

College of Art) and a seminar at UCL.

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This speech was given as part

Friends and Citizens,

Even a state built upon appropriation of the past will eventually find itself in the present, at least for a moment. Behind us, at an ever-increasing distance, we see our genesis: stories about passports, artifacts as raw as flint knives. As this distance grows we must ask ourselves, how will we meet this opportunity, this new vantage point that time offers us?

A little over a year ago, in October of 2010, the first NSK Citizens’ Congress was held in Berlin. An international group of delegates convened to discuss matters of the State. Miran and other founding members of the NSK collective were present, and waited expectantly for the citizens to take the reins. There was no consensus among the delegates to do so. There was a great reluctance to stray far from our founders.

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IRWIN – NSK Passport Office, New York

Print Studio, in Conjunction with the Exhibition Print/Out
Museum of Modern Art
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Lobby
4 West 54th Street

Entrance,
New York, NY 10019

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 12:00–4:00 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2012, 12:00–4:00 PM
Friday, February 3, 2012, 12:00–4:00 PM

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NSK State News for October, featuring retrospective

coverage of citizen organized events in Leipzig and New York City.

To mark the publication of the book on the First NSK Citizens’ Congress, a series of events will be

held in Britain, Germany and Slovenia with further dates to be announced. Join the editor

and contributors to discuss the issues raised in the book and the ongoing development of the NSK State.

Confirmed Dates:

• 25.10 – London @ The Horse Hospital, 19.30
  Alexei Monroe, Avi Pitchon, Alexander Nym
• 28.10. – Leipzig @ Galerie KUB, 20.00
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  Alexander Nym

• 29. & 30.10. – Nuremberg @ Galerie Armer Teufel
  Avi Pitchon, Alexander Nym
• 31.10. – Munich @ Galerie traversée, 19.00
  Avi Pitchon, Alexander Nym
• 3.11. – Ljubljana @ Galerija ŠKUC, 19.00
  Alexei Monroe, Haris Hararis (Followed at 20.00 by the opening of the NSK Folk Art exhibition)
• 4.11. – Berlin @ Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, 21.30
  Alexei Monroe, Avi Pitchon (DJs: Codex Europa, Avi Pitchon)

Ordering information and a downloadable preview of the book can be found at Ploettner’s website. There is a 10% discount for NSK Citizens on production of a valid passport number.

The Nuremberg events take place in the framework of a special exhibition by local NSK Citizens and activists and selected NSK Folk Art works will also be displayed at the Berlin event which will be followed by a party.

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Cabinet Press will shortly release the book “State of Emergence” which explores what did happen, what could have happened and what may happen following the Congress. The book comprises ca 250 pages and includes images from the Congress as well as the accompanying NSK Folk Art

and Congress Poster Competition exhibition, as well as documentation of the first post-Congress citizen-organised events.

Also included are a range of eye-witness accounts from delegates, facilitators, observers and others, giving multiple perspectives on the events. In addition, there are essays on the Congress and the NSK State from a range of theorists including Eda Cufer (NSK founding member & international curator), Regina Roemhild (Institute for European Anthropology, Humboldt University Berlin), Yannis Stavrakakis and Kostis Stafylakis.
As is the case with many of NSK’s works, the true meanings and significances of the Congress may not be clear for some time, but “State of Emergence” will analyse and contribute to the interpretation and decoding of an event whose implications touch on the key artistic, political and social dilemmas

of our time.

“State of Emergence intensively documents and analyses the unique NSK State in Time project, opening up radical new perspectives on the collectivity of NSK and on many of the key artistic and cultural questions of our time. This is an important collection of thought-provoking texts and artwork that is invaluable for navigating this evolving territory.”
Catherine Wood, Tate Modern Curator of Contemporary Art and Performance.

Ordering information can be found at Ploettner’s website.