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September 17, 2004

“GROUND 1- The Dark Night of the Planetary Soul”

Video presentation and SoS Consulate
17.9. / 7 PM
18.9.-15.11.2004
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Exhibition: “Space Invaders”
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, New York 12866

GROUND 1

“Anxiously it clutches the beating heart, the rigid sinew twitches with gout, the ghastly laughter of madness in the moans of fear”.

The SoS will show their new video “GROUND 1- The Dark Night of the Planetary Soul” a 45 minutes documentation about all activities since their existance from 30.8.2003. The video contains such as: The Shadow Empire, SoS Manifesto “Sabotage” by HR Giger, Baldrockistan – the first SoS province, SoS Embassies and consulates around the globe, SoS manhole covers, SoS Art Collection, SoS Soup and more…

SoS CONSULATE

The SoS state installs a temporary SoS consulate at the show. At the exhibition opening, the consulate will be presented by Stephan Lugbauer (SoS Videoman). The SoS embassy remains open through the duration of the exhibition via printed material, applications, videos, and an SoS shop.

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SoS Facts

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