Interrogation Machine: Laibach and NSK (Short Circuits)
"A real explosion of artistic and intellectual energy took place in Ljubljana during the 1980s, the impact of which reverberated throughout the global cultural landscape. Alexei Monroe not only describes this explosion but transmits its energy to the reader." Boris Groys, Professor of Philosophy and Art Theory, Academy of Design, Karlsruhe"Are you a totalitarian or do you just play one on TV? It's a question that's long plagued the NSK art collective. It's brilliantly answered by critic Alexei Monroe in Interrogation Machine, the first substantial English work on the collective.... Monroe's writing is accessible and potent, making for the best and most thought-provoking art book of the year so far."Eye Weekly"Hitler, Stalin, Tito... art theorists? How have these icons of totalitarianism inspired the politically subversive aesthetic interventions of Laibach and the NSK art collective? Interrogation Machine offers what is to date the most historically detailed, factually accurate, and theoretically insightful account of what is arguably the most significant artistic phenomenon in Eastern Europe since the Soviet avant-garde." Dusan I. Bjelic, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Maine, coeditor ofBalkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation"Hitler, Stalin, Tito... art theorists? How have these icons of totalitarianism inspired the politically subversive aesthetic interventions of Laibach and the NSK art collective? *Interrogation Machine* offers what is to date the most historically detailed, factually accurate, and theoretically insightful account of what is arguably the most significant artistic phenomenon in Eastern Europe since the Soviet avant-garde."--Dusan I. Bjelic, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern Maine, editor of *Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation*