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September 21 – October 14, 2007

Sos-State of Sabotage – Consulate and Embassy Parking Space, Karmeliterplatz / Paulustorgasse

Opening of the Consulate / Parking Space: September 21, 2007, 10 PM
Availability: September 22 to October 14, 2007

On August 30, 2003, during the “Micronations” festival on the inhabited island of Harakka just off of Helsinki, Sabotage Communications declared itself a state and changed its name to “SoS – State of Sabotage”. SoS is everywhere, it is a territorial phantom with no defined territory. SoS citizens are nomad-izing or de-territorial-izing groups. Wherever SoS – State of Sabotage manifests itself – from Australia to Austria – it subverts existing systems by dissolving state-regulated properties and borders. This is also the case in Graz.

During the Steirischer Herbst festival, a consulate will be opened in the middle of the fairgrounds and a parking space in the city center converted to an official embassy parking lot of “SoS – State of Sabotage”. SoS citizens can utilize the parking space for two hours, free of charge, by displaying a custom-made parking meter in their cars. By posting two official signs with the message “No Parking – Except for SoS state vehicles”, urban as well as state terrain is re-demarcated. The SoS parking space is a shift of state borders (Austria), a new state demarcation (SoS), as well as a sculpture by Robert Jelinek. It is a transnational ingress on national territory.


Information regarding application for SoS citizenship:

www.sabotage.at
www.steirischerherbst.at

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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.

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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