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February 2011, OUT NOW: OFFSHORE CENSUS – Citizens of the State of Sabotage


The nautical spirit needs no foundations, but rather trans-shipment centers, foreign partners, inspirational harbor supplies, faraway destinations, and a dose of criminal energy made civil. (Peter Sloterdijk)

State of Sabotage was founded as a sovereign state on the uninhabited Finnish island Harakka by the Austrian artist Robert Jelinek in August 2003. They have a flag, stamps, coins, and an anthem. But particularly the passport (designed by Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig) triggered a dynamism which catapulted the artists’ state all of a sudden into the field of political reality. State of Sabotage was de facto recognized by Slovenia, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino, and Italy. “Offshore Census” is a tribute to the some 14,000 citizens. The book contains a cultural topography by Irina Ulrike Anderl as well as texts by Alfred Goubran, Robert Jelinek, Didi Neidhart and Paul Poet regarding the phenomenon state and art, and the art of state. The main part of the book shows the portraits of the citizens of SoS.

(Ed.) Robert Jelinek (Publ.) Springer Wien/New York

Hardcover / 410 pages / Deutsch-English


Orders: http://www.springer.com/architecture+%26+design/arts/book/978-3-7091-0533-7

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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