Prerokbe Ognja Preconditions of Fire

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00:00:35 To make a fire, we need
00:00:38 a flammable substance,
00:00:39 air, that is, oxygen,
00:00:42 and a source of heat.
00:00:43 Making a fire goes like this.
00:00:45 Heat the flammable substance until the
00:00:49 The mixing of these gasses with oxygen
00:00:55 results in the burning of that substance.
00:00:59 Death, lust is dead,
00:01:02 death is dead, sorrow, dead,
00:01:05 God is dead...
00:01:09 In the dark times,
00:01:21 Towards the end of the period of totalitarian
00:01:26 an art movement appeared in a
00:01:31 It was named "NSK".
00:01:34 Using the materials of music,
00:01:37 the NSK collective took on the role of catalyst,
00:01:41 revisiting the repressed
00:01:44 and exposing hidden mechanisms
00:01:51 Tribes of Europe!
00:01:54 Democracy has destroyed order.
00:01:57 The ground is ready.
00:01:59 Now we can say:
00:02:01 no history has been decided,
00:02:05 no nation has ever won thanks to justice.
00:02:09 It won thanks to pure physical strength.
00:02:15 All civilizations are based on it,
00:02:18 all the powers of law will dance
00:04:26 Historiographers are gradually coming to
00:04:30 is in fact a series of consensual myths.
00:04:33 It's not necessarily a nation's past
00:04:38 but its mythology which shapes its past.
00:04:42 Taken apart, analyzed and then re-assembled,
00:04:50 Within this recurring pattern,
00:04:55 is actually no more than a collective
00:05:31 MariborchanX:
00:05:34 As you may have noticed, there
00:05:39 Fortunately I have a transcript of
00:05:44 If you want it, click on this picture,
00:06:18 But what was the real motivation
00:06:22 Was this a politicized art,
00:06:26 Or were they simply a warning that if you
00:06:31 According to homeopathic theory, you can
00:06:36 The immune system must be provoked.
00:06:39 How better, then, to trigger the defense
00:07:05 You step forward as
00:07:10 the number one enemy of the state.
00:07:15 Art is a noble calling
00:07:21 Laibach is an organism whose aims, life and
00:07:27 in strength and duration
00:07:28 than the aims, life and means of the
00:07:32 Aren't you afraid that someone might
00:07:38 Art is a noble calling
00:07:47 The new art is a new era.
00:08:02 By 1984, Laibach and several other
00:08:07 in the fanaticism required of art.
00:08:10 They linked together in a
00:08:13 NSK, or Neue Slowenische Kunst,
00:08:17 theater, design, architecture,
00:08:25 They said they were presenting
00:08:30 But, like Laibach, they didn't seem
00:08:34 Manifestos issued by the new art movement
00:08:39 "revive the trauma of early 20th
00:08:43 by identifying with them in the stage
00:08:46 of their assimilation into the
00:08:54 In 1927, Russian avant-gardist Kazimir
00:09:00 He passed through central Europe, arriving
00:09:06 Unfolding diagrams translated into German,
00:09:08 the founder of the school of
00:09:12 explained some basic principles.
00:09:15 Art, he said, had always functioned merely
00:09:20 But the new art would have its own,
00:09:24 Although in the West Malevich is credited
00:09:28 from an Eastern viewpoint it seems clear
00:09:32 to be the author of a new mythology.
00:09:35 Two generations after the
00:09:39 was destroyed by the revolution
00:09:43 many of its ideas came to life again
00:09:45 in the Westernmost city
00:09:52 It appeared, that the collectives,
00:09:56 welded together into a
00:10:01 and created an abstract Suprematist form.
00:10:05 Although for NSK,
00:10:08 as the bricks and cement
00:10:11 NSK seemed to float free
00:10:16 If the artists of NSK could be said
00:10:19 it would be "the destruction
00:10:25 Trbovlje. This town has built us,
00:10:35 Nineteen seventeen.
00:10:38 Shock-waves of revolution spread
00:10:42 The best-known images
00:10:44 are already the
00:10:46 serving the direct interests of
00:10:51 In the beginning, the Utopian rhetoric
00:10:55 the revolutionary ideas of the
00:11:02 The success of Marxist ideology in the East
00:11:04 inevitably impacts on the
00:11:09 Hunger, dismal working conditions,
00:11:13 are the norm in the industrial
00:11:18 But the revolution brings
00:11:22 Strikes and street battles between fascist
00:11:33 Contemporary Trbovlje's huge coal-fired power
00:11:38 Laibach emerged from this
00:11:42 producing a specifically industrial
00:11:49 Thirteen years later Irwin,
00:11:54 return to the source of the movement's
00:12:27 Like Laibach, members of Irwin came from the
00:12:35 The earliest Irwin works consciously
00:12:39 using materials like coal, tar and blood.
00:12:45 Although their role would later
00:12:48 took on a specific mission
00:12:54 They would be the
00:12:57 artists willfully serving the interests
00:13:15 It's the cement factory!
00:13:17 Maybe these are old
00:13:21 when Laibach started and
00:13:25 Or they are connected with
00:13:31 I don't like their style. They have a
00:13:53 What do we think of the paintings? Fuck 'em.
00:14:03 The painting as a painting?
00:14:08 It's unusual, because normally
00:14:13 a painting to represent something nice,
00:14:18 But these are... The painter who painted
00:14:25 He is practically the only one who could
00:14:35 Laibach as Laibach?
00:14:39 Laibach as a music group is very
00:14:45 I saw on TV that they had a concert in
00:14:50 But here, in our town,
00:14:55 We don't know they are only a
00:14:59 We think the paintings are beautiful,
00:15:03 Let's go!
00:15:05 Wait, we're having an interview!
00:15:10 Let's go! Good luck!
00:15:19 It's difficult to explain.
00:15:24 I think Laibach have a very special style,
00:15:28 a way of expressing
00:15:31 it's a kind of protest
00:15:35 A kind of... reaction against society and
00:15:46 All art is subject to political manipulation
00:16:00 By the middle of the century, the machinery
00:16:06 and the machinery producing
00:16:09 are manufacturing each other.
00:16:12 The mass reproduction of images
00:16:16 prefigures the mass media which will follow -
00:16:19 the beginning of new, increasingly
00:16:25 ARCHIVAL FILM TITLE:
00:17:17 Cleanse / klenz/ /vt/
00:18:06 STOP THE PARAHUMAN!
00:18:16 Our mission is to make
00:23:14 Conditions of Burning and
00:23:27 I'm not going to translate this,
00:23:30 And double subtitles are annoying...
00:25:29 God's Kindergarten
00:25:57 The brutal civil war that has been
00:26:03 since the Axis invasion is finally extinguished in
00:26:09 For the next 50 years, European
00:26:14 an unprecedented dismemberment
00:26:18 and the rest of the continent between
00:26:23 The immense world of violence has fallen!
00:26:29 Ljubljana has proved that it
00:26:36 beating heart of an alive, proud, heroic
00:26:45 A one-time Austro-Hungarian soldier from
00:26:52 Although the Yugoslav state has
00:26:55 its Western borders are disputed by the
00:27:02 Ladies and Gentlemen! Comrades!
00:27:05 We want the entire world to know that
00:27:09 doesn't want anything but that one
00:27:14 shall live within the framework of one state!
00:27:22 Although Tito's demands are
00:27:25 the old Habsburg port of Trieste and
00:27:32 Trieste becomes the site of clashes between
00:27:37 But it soon becomes clear that the substantial
00:27:42 Austrian province of Koroska, will remain west
00:27:50 Who gave their lives for
00:27:55 The Partisans of Koroska gave
00:27:59 Where, then, is our northern frontier?
00:28:03 Our northern border is there
00:28:07 Let's sing a partisan song!
00:28:09 Brothers, to the sun of freedom!
00:28:16 the painful night is behind us,
00:28:23 The painful night is behind us,
00:28:48 People love parades.
00:28:51 The concept of politics as entertainment was
00:28:56 Although the fascist
00:28:59 the aestheticization of politics lived
00:29:05 As for the parades, they were an assembly
00:29:09 Traditions had to be invented
00:29:13 In its own way, the ideology that had
00:29:16 believed itself to be at the beginning
00:29:20 Europa
00:30:21 There's a Balkan quality
00:30:24 Long before the
00:30:26 and the contemporary idea
00:30:29 ethnic groups and rival religions
00:30:33 fought for domination over
00:30:37 If Slovenia was, as the Quisling
00:30:41 God's Kindergarten
00:30:43 then all of Europe was his
00:30:45 dedicated to refining strategies of
00:30:49 that was destined
00:31:07 Every new order pre-supposes
00:31:17 Although Tito had broken Yugoslavia free
00:31:23 creating the world's first
00:31:26 in the end his
00:31:28 was no more resilient than that of
00:31:33 The crash of a unifying ideology,
00:31:36 45 years after its greatest victory,
00:31:39 initially spilled more blood in the
00:31:42 Less than a year after
00:31:45 and the disintegration
00:31:46 the Irwin group flew to Moscow with
00:31:50 between the
00:31:55 Group action: Irwin &
00:32:01 The evaporation of Soviet power had been
00:32:05 "A migration of images into oblivion."
00:32:08 Previously, though, Communism had erased
00:32:12 So it seemed appropriate to treat the
00:32:17 a symbolic zone, in which various
00:32:20 and sometimes
00:32:53 This is a Black Square
00:34:29 NSK as a system was
00:34:35 and this action is the first
00:34:40 where this body has
00:34:47 I would like to make a link.
00:34:49 In the 80's, NSK contemplated
00:34:56 and that was a kind of answer to the
00:35:01 In the 90's, where totalitarian
00:35:07 and national states emerging, NSK
00:35:13 in time, and not in space. That's why the
00:36:23 There's a new embassy in Moscow.
00:36:25 True, it was not announced in the newspapers,
00:36:31 The NSK Embassy is in a normal
00:36:35 Still, it has attracted large crowds
00:36:42 and punks. NSK Ambassador Miran
00:39:01 After they'd removed all our
00:39:05 such as this one of Dzerzinsky,
00:39:10 and Kalinin, our first and most
00:39:17 and Yakov Sverdlov, who played an
00:39:24 after they'd removed
00:39:27 they spent a long time
00:39:29 On the one hand, this was,
00:39:33 it was quite obviously vandalism,
00:39:40 no matter what it may have
00:39:42 it was almost necessary to
00:39:45 it meant an enormous
00:39:50 I think that if Irwin had
00:39:54 it would have been an interesting
00:39:58 since they experiment
00:40:03 to break down, to build,
00:40:07 and in such a way
00:40:10 The experience of NSK in relation
00:40:14 and for this reason
00:40:17 moments in history is very important
00:40:21 as the dilemma of what to do with the past is
00:40:27 But NSK was the first to
00:40:31 what we can do with our experiences,
00:40:34 that we can harmonize them
00:40:54 Fascism will not win!
00:41:05 Americans! Listen to the
00:41:11 Take your dirty hands
00:42:07 Art and totalitarianism do
00:42:20 According to theory, the past itself is no
00:42:26 By the 90's, the songs of
00:42:30 have become the property
00:42:36 But if history is in fact a sum
00:42:39 what then to do with this
00:42:44 Like the ideologies
00:42:46 the early 20th century Utopian avant-garde
00:42:53 experimental social structures.
00:42:56 The Eastern Modernists believed that the
00:43:01 according to principles of
00:43:03 If the state was to wither
00:43:06 then the Soviet avant-garde
00:43:08 of replacing it with
00:43:12 something the Germans
00:43:16 At the close of the Modern era, with
00:43:20 strewn across the landscape
00:43:23 it made a certain sense to
00:43:26 to try to determine what
00:44:04 Historical avant garde is a style, written
00:44:10 as a response to the mimetic art which
00:44:16 Retrogardism, of course, is like the
00:44:24 Its method is the retro-method.
00:44:42 German Nazism, Italian Fascism
00:44:46 all first repressed,
00:44:50 the ideas and energies of the early 20th
00:44:54 Each in their own way
00:44:58 of the state as a work of art into
00:45:04 Adolf Hitler, the art school reject,
00:45:10 transformed their societies
00:45:15 If the state was an
00:45:23 If the state was a church,
00:45:28 They were God.
00:46:26 The works of NSK's Irwin collective
00:46:28 revealed fascism and communism as
00:46:33 But they went beyond that.
00:46:34 By deploying a variety world
00:46:39 the Irwin artists exposed a
00:46:44 Placing quotations from Western modernist
00:46:48 with symbols of both
00:46:53 they revealed their essential similarity
00:46:59 The works of Irwin, wrote
00:47:03 "had already appeared, long before the
00:47:07 as an artistic rendition of its end."
00:47:33 The people around here are either
00:47:35 scientists or ideologists or religious
00:47:42 They cover the global
00:47:47 Each has its own rituals:
00:47:50 religion
00:47:52 ideology fascinating ones,
00:47:54 science magical ones.
00:47:58 Art, of course, has to act through
00:48:04 Obsessive neurosis is the field where
00:48:11 At this point, assuming numerical
00:48:20 assuming the fields that either
00:48:27 Of course, for the artist, it is
00:49:41 The only truly aesthetic vision of
00:49:53 Within the cosmology of
00:49:56 Laibach plays the role of
00:50:00 Irwin are the state artists,
00:50:03 and the theater group, now called the
00:50:07 functions
00:50:08 a place where obsessive neurosis is
00:50:38 The ballet we are preparing
00:50:41 will first be shown on December 11, 1992.
00:50:48 It is dedicated to Herman
00:50:52 two, hop.. three, hop..
00:51:00 Prayer Machine Noordung
00:51:07 Capital of pain.
00:51:12 Capital of pain.
00:51:27 You are free.
00:51:29 No charge.
00:51:31 No sense.
00:51:37 You are totally alone.
00:51:42 One plus one, plus one....
00:51:47 Throughout history,
00:51:50 be it political,
00:51:54 Viewed in the light of
00:51:56 the entire NSK project
00:51:58 as an attempt to 'reclaim' an
00:52:02 If the ideas and artistic methods
00:52:05 were exploited by political forces,
00:52:07 creating a kind of ceremonial
00:52:11 then NSK was reasserting aesthetic
00:52:14 while accomplishing an
00:52:19 Politics and religion would
00:52:22 It would now be they
00:52:25 This is the "hidden transgression" at the core
00:52:30 Call it politics in the service of theater.
00:53:59 And what is art?
00:54:21 Suspended as they are
00:54:24 NSK seemingly made a
00:54:26 no one side would
00:54:30 A comprehensive world-view required
00:54:33 just as neither
00:54:36 No matter how intense
00:54:39 the truth of their specific historical condition
00:54:43 And suspicion of history must be
00:54:48 about any single mythology,
00:54:51 Only in this way could
00:54:54 defined as a "state in time"
00:55:16 The famous Slovenian
00:55:19 active at the end of the
00:55:23 "Of course we have our own culture,
00:55:25 its just that we have to look
00:55:29 At the end of a century
00:55:31 between East and West
00:55:33 that list of influences
00:55:37 Maybe this is why post-modernism,
00:55:41 came along as something the
00:55:45 More importantly, in a culture marked by
00:55:48 successive periods of denial
00:55:52 Irwin's work represents a voluntary
00:55:57 In New York, these influences
00:56:01 as building blocks of the
00:58:00 Not surprisingly, NSK's
00:58:03 of an East-West
00:58:06 have not always been well
00:58:10 And the prevailing political climate
00:58:14 Before Slovenia's first
00:58:17 a perception existed that NSK was
00:58:23 Later, their use of Eastern modernist
00:58:27 directly accused of working for
00:59:49 Fascism under the guise of democracy
01:00:57 The End of History.
01:01:10 Slovenia entered the age
01:01:13 at around the same time Josip Broz Tito
01:02:12 Adopting a Yugocentric view,
01:02:19 not with the rise of Mikhail
01:02:21 but with the fall of the
01:02:24 in the Westernmost
01:02:28 Everything else was just details -
01:02:44 Another type of
01:02:47 The decline of the
01:02:49 paved the way for a
01:02:53 preaching nationalist
01:02:57 Miloševic: Comrades! There is
01:03:02 which could shake the leadership
01:03:08 in the struggle
01:03:17 We want weapons!
01:03:21 I can't hear you!
01:03:24 I can't hear you,
01:03:24 but I want to give you the
01:03:28 soon all the names
01:03:37 And I want to tell you that
01:03:43 in order to manipulate them, to
01:03:47 that they will be punished
01:03:51 This I guarentee you!
01:03:54 Elias Canetti has said that
01:03:58 Ex-Yugoslavia's contemporary
01:04:01 on Serbian
01:04:04 Years before fighting erupted,
01:04:06 a relentless tape-loop
01:04:11 flickered in millions of
01:04:14 Among them the forced
01:04:17 by a Catholic priest in Croatia's
01:04:21 It was in Serbia that
01:04:23 but not last
01:04:24 post-modern transition
01:04:28 It began as a return of
01:04:30 The century had vanished into the archives,
01:04:35 releasing stored demons that
01:04:41 Slovenia reacted to events in the South with
01:04:48 Slovenian secessionists were given a massive
01:04:51 clumsy political trial of four
01:04:58 A rally in Congress Square pounded some final
01:05:05 The proceedings bore an eerie
01:05:10 in which the first Yugoslav state was
01:05:28 Mr. President!
01:05:30 The troop of the Territorial
01:05:34 of the Republic of Slovenia
01:05:37 and it is prepared
01:05:46 Our history is honorable and clean.
01:05:51 Until now, history didn't
01:05:54 we had to work hard for everything.
01:06:03 Slovenia's secession from the
01:06:06 recycled a time-worn dramaturgy,
01:06:10 bringing a familiar cast of characters and
01:06:14 But there was a difference.
01:06:17 This time, for the first time, the rituals
01:06:20 rather than subservience
01:06:23 If art can declare independence,
01:06:45 Ideology relies on rhetoric
01:06:53 In March of 1989,
01:06:57 it's first legislative steps
01:07:00 Laibach made a risky decision:
01:07:03 to play a concert in the
01:07:06 Belgrade,
01:07:07 part of the performance
01:07:09 delivered in a politically explosive
01:07:15 Brothers Serbs!
01:07:18 You are here
01:07:23 You rule this land,
01:07:29 This I guarentee you!
01:07:32 You believe in
01:07:41 Your holy towns
01:07:47 Saint Sava says that
01:07:58 Profaned graves
01:08:02 we've thought
01:08:06 But He believes
01:08:12 Reality has a way of
01:08:15 The speech, which started by
01:08:19 Serbian President
01:08:21 would end by directly quoting British
01:08:27 the key architect of European
01:08:31 NSK's "retrogardism" had
01:08:35 with the very phenomenon
01:08:37 In both form and content, Laibach's
01:08:43 was as precise as
01:08:46 It seemed to crystallize the
01:08:50 between Yugoslav socialist speech and
01:08:57 The first had always stressed brotherhood
01:09:02 The cadences of the second
01:09:05 since the dark day
01:09:09 Listen!
01:09:12 The violence, the war, the love,
01:09:23 Upon these premises we
01:09:29 and that means
01:09:40 Language is a system of orders,
01:10:38 Details of the past, transposed
01:10:42 are sometimes capable
01:10:46 For the remainder of European history,
01:10:50 with the weakness of democracy
01:12:10 The carnage in the East came
01:12:15 cross the ridges of mountains that
01:12:17 from the Ottoman
01:12:20 These images of horror were
01:12:23 to the great
01:12:26 where they were surrounded by late-night
01:12:31 The autumn of the century had
01:12:34 Atrocity was replaced by entertainment,
01:12:40 The Heaven Over Trbovlje
01:13:01 The Heaven Over Ljubljana
01:13:05 When Slovenia became the first
01:13:09 its network of TV tower
01:13:13 If history increasingly
01:13:14 those who control the
01:13:18 By the end of the century, the mass
01:13:22 With the precision of a
01:13:25 into 24 frames per second,
01:13:40 In 1983, the so-called "interview" of
01:13:46 in what critics of mass media
01:13:51 Conducted more by the group
01:13:54 Laibach revealed the way
01:13:58 by externalizing both its
01:14:02 Although interpretable now
01:14:06 Laibach's action anticipated both the
01:14:11 that would later be used to trigger
01:14:16 Television. Within the industry of
01:14:21 besides the school system, the
01:14:26 Television programs are
01:14:29 with one transmitter
01:14:32 No communication
01:15:15 We use mainly tools with
01:15:20 and repressively use
01:15:25 These tools are used for
01:15:30 and are the best for deterring
01:15:33 for instance film as the most powerful
01:15:37 and the most powerful
01:15:40 If I got it right, you use
01:15:44 Fine, so do we.
01:15:46 Maybe, maybe now somebody
01:15:50 these horrifying ideas and declarations
01:15:58 We are the children of
01:16:03 whose promises are
01:16:06 we are the black specters
01:16:09 we are singing of this
01:16:13 we are the
01:16:19 Yugoslavia / Force
01:16:28 There's a European
01:16:32 When Europe falls out of balance,
01:16:38 At the end of the
01:16:41 and with the finest armies
01:16:45 a complacent Europe grows accustomed
01:16:49 play like a violent film safely on the other
01:16:56 The warning of a group of artist
01:17:00 forgotten cities still resounds, more
01:17:05 Look at the past, NSK said,
01:17:10 Look at the Balkans, Europe.
01:17:23 Epilogue
01:17:27 In the middle of the nineties,
01:17:28 the most successful pop-cultural
01:17:32 performs for the first time
01:17:35 As usual in Athens, reminders of
01:17:39 They are visible everywhere
01:17:41 like the signs reflecting
01:17:44 at the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic of
01:19:32 At the close of the millennium,
01:19:46 As for NSK, the art movement organized "as
01:20:09 Remember, this movie was made