On May 10, 2022, near the small town of Maubourguet in southwestern France, the prolific avant-garde music group Laibach held a live event titled DANGER: We Forge the Future! The concert was put together in conjunction with the contemporary Russian artist Andrei Molodkin. The collaboration resulted in a music event and an exhibition where artworks by contemporary artists including Santiago Sierra, Jens Haaning, Erik Bulatov, and Molodkin were displayed. The visual centerpieces of the happening consisted of a projection of Molodkin’s most recent installation work, Vladimir Putin filled with Ukrainian blood (2022), and a handwoven tapestry commissioned by Laibach titled UNTERNEHMEN BARBAROSSA (2022). The evening also featured a text written by Slovenian philosopher and performer Peter Mlakar meditating on present-day atrocities in Ukraine and the relationship between good and evil.

This unique group of dissident performers highlighted the persistent and crucial capacity for contemporary art to point out and criticize...

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