Talk at Ausstellung Laibach Kunst, Łódź, 23rd June

I will be giving a talk on ‘Laibach Kunst and the Art of Total Non-Alignment’at the exhibition on June 23^rd at 6pm. Codex Europa and Wiktor Skok will DJ in an industrial vein afterwards.

This Polish site has a short film which has a clip from the opening performance, similar to the one given at I.C.R.N.’s RoTr event in 2006.

Read more here about this major exhibition, which presents the most comprehensive overview of Laibach Kunst works yet staged.

Comments

Ana Mesarka said…

Dear Alexei!
I would like to thank you for your speech in Łódź. I enjoyed it very much and think that it was the most important talk during Ausstellung Laibach Kunst. Thank you for sharing your greater knowledge about Laibach with us. As well as your music made an unforgettable impression on me. I'm glad that you came to Łódź and hope you'll visit Poland again.
Best regards

9:27 pm

a.m. said…

Thanks Ana it was good to meet you and everyone else I spoke to there. I'm hope I'll be back in Poland before too long. Watch this space.

9:42 pm

Mateusz R. Orzech said…

I will join to Ana and also thank you for extremely interesting speech, inspiring talk and nice sign. Hope I'll be able to see and hear you again, and, of course, I'm waiting for your next book.

And music set was absolutely great.

Best wishes from Poland.

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