Quiles, Dimitrij Rupel, Sylvia Sasse, Stevphen Shukaitis, Lilijana Stepančič, Darko Štrajn, Igor Vidmar, Catherine Wood, Alexei Yurchak, Jaša L.
In addition to that, texts by early critics and commentators and reprinted.īesides the authors of the primary documents, the authors of the texts are: Bojan Anđelković, Inke Arns, Zdenka Badovinac, Barbara Borčić, Dominic Boyer, Eda Čufer, Mladen Dolar, Goran Đorđević, Anthony Gardner, Gediminas Gasparavičius, Boris Groys, Marina Gržinić, Chrissie Iles, Taras Kermauner, Željko Kipke, Jela Krečič, Lev Kreft, Dejan Kršić, Dušan Mandič, Tomaž Mastnak, Rastko Močnik, Alexei Monroe, Stojan Pelko, Tone Peršak, Katja Praznik, Daniel R. The editors commissioned several new texts which contextualize the primary documents and expand and deepen the scholarship of art and culture of the time.
Combining primary documents, period artifacts and contextual information, the book provides unprecedented insight into the distribution and reception of NSK during the decade of social unrest that led to the end of Yugoslavia and socialism. Beginning with the early work of Laibach and the founding of NSK, the book focuses on telling the story of NSK, which adopted the symbols, codes and motifs pertaining to contradictory ideologies and art traditions. It features the work of the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art collective throughout the decade of the 1980s. NSK from Kapital to Capital: Neue Slowenische Kunst – The Event of the Final Decade of YugoslaviaĮdited by Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer and Anthony GardnerĬo-published and distributed by MIT Pressįollowing the eponymous exhibition, an extensive book about NSK has just been published.