They glorify and revel in NazBol aesthetics, and never reveal if they're being ironic or not. Their members rarely, if ever, step out of character in public. And they went to perform in the DPRK as the first foreign band to visit there.
It's like a Rorshach Test that makes you reveal yourself as you engage in it.
The deliberate cultivation of ambivalence and misunderstanding, the anachronisms, the displacements and the recuperation of rallying cries, campaign slogans, buzzwords and dog whistles – all this provides the listener with a puzzle to decode, with interesting threads to pull on. Laibach don't tell you what to actually do, but the seeds of curiosity are planted. Instead of falling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, you are compelled to go read up on actual history, philosophy, economics, musicology, art history, etc.
Once you think you "get the joke," you're looking for more Easter eggs. In this video, I suspect that they deliberately synced the live footage at the end precisely so that the audience claps in-between the downbeats in an annoying way. They love trolling like that.
>In 1923, Malevich painted Black Cross, with simple echoes of the famous Black Square. On the surface it could also be seen to be free of political or social symbolism, a display of on Malevich’s beloved geometric forms. His simple black square had been purely aesthetic and content-free.
>But the cross is rendered new in this work and at once familiar to the viewer. It lacks the pure neutrality of the square form. Malevich purported to want to break free from content, but the cross is eerily emblematic, meaningful and representative – reminiscent of his love for icons and peasant painting.
>The cross has a long association with religion and mysticism. It is a simple form that contains strong echoes of religious doctrine and devotion. Similarly, the idea of a crossroads, or a cross street contains a reference to change, to uncertainty and to the need for decision. A cross is at once threatening, laden with associations of death and penance in the religious cannon and conversely, full of opportunity and new beginning in the public consciousness. Malevich’s cross is black, ominous and void.
>Malevich died at the age of 57 in Leningrad following a struggle with cancer. His friends and students buried his ashes in a grave that was marked simply by a black square. The monument was destroyed during World War II. Mourners at his funeral waved a banner including the emblem of the black square.
>>13811Seeing them in some weeks! :D
Heres the Liberation Day docco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywy5Ze4P1Wk