The First Global State of the Universe: A Discussion of the NSK State in Time as a Social Artwork
Journal: Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University)
Year: 2020

In 1992, the NSK State in Time was constituted as an artistic response to the newly developing nation state of Slovenia. In 2020, the art project counts more than sixteen-thousand followers, who go by the name of ‘NSK citizens’. This extraordinary number of followers forms the motive for the research question of this thesis: In what way does the social body of citizens of the NSK State in Time influence its original position as an art project, primarily focused on criticizing the idea of a (nati