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December 6, 2003






State of Sabotage présente

l`ouverture de l`Ambassade SoS en France

le 6 décembre 2003 à 19h


Ambassade et Consulat à Nantes
24 Rue Kervégan, 44000 Nantes
contact: 06 70 76 91 29

avec des oeuvres d´art de HR Giger, Franz Graf et Heimo Zobernig
et en présence d´Anabelle Hubaut
La Kuizine (live)
Dj sets de Phonème, Karim Jackson, Faustino Rucci
intervention vocale de So Valoy (live)

Madame Kitty Hartl, ambassadrice en France de SoS et Robert Jelinek (SoS State Department)
se réjouissent de votre venue!


State of Sabotage Le label viennois Sabotage Communication a officiellement déclaré la naissance de State of Sabotage lors du Congrès International des micro-états qui s’est tenu sur l’île inhabitée de Harakka (Finlande) le 30 août 2003. La première ambassade a ouvert ses portes en novembre 2003 à Vienne en Autriche, Nantes est la deuxième d’une série d’ouvertures à travers le monde.

Avant d’être un territoire géographique – 650 ha, une terre appelée « Bald Rock Bush Retreat » située à l’Est de l’Australie (à 200km de Brisbane) – State of Sabotage est un concept :

> sans population autochtone, sa croissance est théoriquement illimitée. A l’inverse de nombreux micro-états, sa communeauté n’est pas virtuelle : ouvert à tous, sur simple demande de passeport, chacun peut devenir citoyen. 50 000 citoyens sont d’ailleurs nécessaires à une déclaration de l’Etat aux Nations-Unis.

> Le territoire de State of Sabotage est à la disposition de ses citoyens et de leur projet : corps collectif, State of Sabotage fait désormais partie du paysage social et politique. Son organisation, sa dynamique et son esprit seront animés par les citoyens eux-mêmes. Si un état est par définition immuable, State of Sabotage se veut être une matrice, une simple ossature qui puisse inscrire la croissance de l’Etat dans un mouvement perpétuel.

> State of Sabotage est un Etat d’art : souveraineté de l’artistique et de la trans-nationalité de l’art. State of Sabotage réinvente le concept allemand de « Staatskunst » qui définit l’art et la culture comme essentiels à la bonne santé de l’Etat. Pratiques, visions, utopies, modèles…les différents domaine de l’art pourront entrer en résidence sur le territoire.Madame Kitty Hartl, ambassadrice en France de SoS et Robert Jelinek, fondateur comptent sur votre présence.

State of Sabotage, the newly founded microstate, will open their second embassy now in Nantes/France and show a series of specially commissioned artworks.


STAATSKUNST (THE ART OF THE STATE)

State diplomacy is conducted through artistic sovereignty and trans-nationality – art as state as a direct form of independent 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. Yet even at a time when the state is being pushed out of more and more areas of life and continues to lose esteem, it remains the highest existing authority – precisely because the state is more static than other forces affecting our lives. On the other hand, the state is inferior to these highly dynamic forces and lags helplessly behind the newest developments in science and technology.
The German concept of Staatskunst (art of state) alludes to the fact that in governments of previous centuries the balancing and equalization of manifold factors and powers was in fact understood as an art. The antiquated concept of Staatskunst also has another meaning: It reminds us that in former times the promotion of art and culture was seen as a state goal and rulers recognized that art and culture were essential components of their wealth and capital. The newly formed State of Sabotage feels bound to this understanding of Staatskunst and will, for the first time in Germany with the STATE OF THE ART event, present its capital by means of artistic positions.
STATE OF THE ART visualizes the attributes of trans-nationalities and the new conditions of state and artistic reality through artistic practices, models, visions, and utopias. At the opening of each new embassy, new artists will be introduced to the public and admitted to the SoS Art Foundation. Depending on the location of the SoS embassy, local exhibitions and thematic events will be continuously presented.

Soon, the SoS Art Foundation will award travel and residency scholarships to/in Baldrockistan/Australia to young artists. The SoS art collection is, according to location, always publicly accessible. A worldwide exhibition and survey in art locations in various other countries is in planning. And artistic productions, conferences, events and workshops are also planned on the SoS grounds in Baldrockistan/Australia.

Allready commissioned artists (SoS collection)

HR GIGER / DOMINIQUE GONZALES-FOERSTER / FRANZ GRAF / JULIE MONACO / FRANZ POMASSL / ROMAN SIGNER / HEIMO ZOBERNIG

Related Links:

  • Embassy Opening Vienna
  • State of the Art Press Picture (High Resolution)
  • State Formation on Harakka Island, Finland
  • SoS – Territory

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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


Settlement coming soon

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