Doppel-Screening „An Apology for Modernity“ und „Sarajevo: State in Time“

Screening at the Dortmunder U cinema (ground floor) as part of the HMKV exhibition What is art, IRWIN?

Free admission, admission from 18 years.

An Apology for Modernity (Director: Igor Zupe, in cooperation with IRWIN), 72 min., SVN, 2021, Original language: EN/SVN, Subtitles: EN

While the NSK state cannot compete with most other states in terms of its citizens, it is an international superpower in the field of contemporary art. Among its citizens, a team of curators was chosen (artist Ahmed Ögüt, curators Zdenka Badovinac and Charles Esche) to present the remarkable achievements of NSK citizens in the NSK State Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017, alongside the pavilions of more than 60 other countries.

Sarajevo: State in Time (Director: Benjamin Jung / Théo Meurisse), 48 min, FR/BIH/SVN/ SWI/ESP/LUX, 2019, Original languages: FR/EN/BIH, subtitles: EN.

1995: The inhabitants* of Sarajevo have been living under siege for 3 years now and their everyday life has become a nightmare due to shelling and snipers. In this atmosphere, the industrial punk band Laibach and members of the NSK traveled across the burning former Yugoslavia to proclaim the city as the territory of the NSK state in time. In the film, those who wrote this story, and those who lived through this event, considered one of the most important of the siege, have their say.

Image credit: Film still fromSarajevo: State in Time (Director: Benjamin Jung / Théo Meurisse).