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August 30, 2013 TESTAMENTUM

The Mission is almost completed. The State of Sabotage (SoS) was founded as a sovereign state in 2003 on the unpopulated island Harakka in Finland by the Austrian artist ROBERT JELINEK. Even before it had existed the end of the state had already been planned and set for August 30 2013. Exactly after ten years. Independently from the exhibition date the validity of all documents such as SoS passports and ID cards ends with August 30th 2013.
After this date the SoS state will be laid to rest in a grave topped with a memorial. With this ceremony the whole artistic work of the past ten years as well as all diplomatic papers and state utensils of the SoS state will be given as sacrifice. These artefacts are made up by documents, pictures, plans, models, maps, 14.000 passport applications, passports, ID-cards, type writers, flags, coins, stamps, posters, books…

The state own funeral car a Mercedes 709 with the license plate W-SOS 1, will serve as urn. “This testament is to be kept safe and buried on the African continent. The finder of the will is the sole heir of the entire SoS state”. (State of Sabotage, Last notice 30.08.2013) Latitude 31.54377 (31°33´50.66”N) Longitude: -8.766026 (8°54´55.93”W)

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Staatskunst

State diplomacy is conducted through artistic sovereignty and trans-nationality – art as state as a direct form of inde- pendent state art.



The “state” is static by definition (both concepts derive from Latin “status”). In our contemporary understanding the state is a kind of steely skeleton or matrix – constructed so that it can provide structure, grounding, and duration to a constantly changing society.Political scientists and state theorists, however, maintain that the state reached the apex of its development in the seventies and has since been in decline.

The Art Collection

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SOS PASSPORT OFFICE


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Agenda

August 30, 2003 – August 30, 2013

Mission Completed

August 30, 2013 TESTAMENTUM

The Mission is almost completed. The State of Sabotage (SoS) was founded as a sovereign state in 2003 on the unpopulated island Harakka in Finland by the Austrian artist ROBERT JELINEK. Even before it had existed the end of the state had already been planned and set for August 30 2013. Exactly after ten years. […]

August 30, 2013 CASTRUM DOLORIS Making of Burial Shroud by Oswald Oberhuber. Requiem by Philipp Quehenberger

August 30, 2013 CASTRUM DOLORIS

June 12, 2013 Closing Performance

http://www.esel.at/s/72157634172087727

June 5, 2013 LAST SHOW

feat. FENNESZ / PURE / PHILIPP QUEHENBERGER / HERWIG WEISER, UDO BOHNENBERGER, HEIMO PRÜNSTER / DAS FIEBER

April 10, 2013 NARTHEX – Children’s book by SoS Non-president Robert Jelinek

NARTHEX Text and Illustration by Robert Jelinek 4 Color / German / Hardcover / 100 Pages Publisher: Bibliothek der Provinz

February 2013, SoS ART COLLECTION

NEW ARRIVALS: Mario Grubisic, Jakob Lena Knebl, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Rade Petrasevic

February, 2013

March 21, 2013 The last SoS Gate goes to

February 2013, Oswald Oberhuber designs the SoS Burial Shroud

February 5, 2013 Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig