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Andere Sinema 176

The new issue of the Belgian journal Andere Sinema is now available. It publishes material from the 2005 Jan Vay Eyck seminar "Spectres of the Avant-Garde" including the new text Full Spectrum Provocation The Retrogarde Strategies of Neue Slowenische Kunst which discusses Laibach's notorious 1997 Slovene Philharmonic concert. Further details here: http://www.muhka.be/denkt_as.php?la=nl&jaargang=2006

Evolution of Senso-Brutalism

This paper dealing with senso-brutalist aesthetics in industrial, minimal techno and gabba is now online in the English section of the Vienna music magazine SKUG's website. It was originally presented at a panel organised given by the Industrialised Culture Research Network (see previous posts and www.icrn.blogspot.com ) at a conference on 20th Century Music. See www.skug.at

Over-Identification, Interrogation, Division.

On January 19th the symposium Cultural activism today: Strategies of over-identification will take place at the Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam. Besides a series of expert presentations on over-identification, the event will include a talk by Alexei Monroe on NSK’s use of traditional symbolism, a presentation of the book Interrogation Machine and a pre-release screening of the Laibach American tour documentary Divided States of America . Programme 12:30 Registration 13:00 Welcoming note: Jelle Bouwhuis (Stedelijk Museum) 13:10 Introduction: BAVO 13:40 Lecture Alexei Monroe 14:10 Lecture Dieter Lesage 14:40 Film screening Pulverous (2003) by Aernout Mik 15:10 Break 15:40 Presentation Jens Haaning 16:10 Lecture Boris Groys 16:40 Presentation by Atelier van Lieshout 17:10 Closing discussion, presentation of AS#176 The spectre of the avant-garde, presentation of Alexei Monroe’s Interrogation machine 18:00 Reception and pre-release screening of the film Divided States of America (2005) by