Project Noordung 1995–2045

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Notes

1 I am referring to the title of the text ‘What does Dragan Živadinov want?’, written by Simon Kardum and published in the Slovenian daily journal Delo, after the five-hour press conference that Živadinov gave on 18 September 1991 in Ljubljana, announcing the performance Dramski Observatorij Kapital and presenting a plan for his fifty-year theatre project.

2 If not mentioned otherwise, all the ‘monographical’ statements by Živadinov derive from the genuine ‘material’ of almost all his performances, informances, press conferences and other public interventions.

3 The name of the group is inspired by the essay Theatre and the Plague, in which Artaud refers to Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, a Roman magistrate who ordered the destruction of all Roman theatres. In 1984 Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre, together with two other groups – Laibach (music) and IRWIN (visual art) co-founded a supra- collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK). Later in the 1980-ies, NSK was enlarged by two more groups - New Collectivism (graphics, design) and Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy (theory).

4 Herman Potočnik Noordung (1892–1929) was a Slovene rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics, remembered for his work addressing the long-term human habitation of space.