The texts are taken from manifestos issued in Europe by the International Socialist Congress a century ago, and by the student - driven
Situationist International in France and Black Panther Party in the United States, during the 1960s» counterculture movement.
«This idea of «excess of image» derives from dogmatic philosophers, Feuerbach, for example, is further developed
by Situationists, Guy Debord, in particular, and popularized by Susan Sontag in her book on photography.
wheat plastered the streets of New York with public art projects that combined their background in commercial advertising and photography
with Situationist tactics.
The narrative deals directly with documentation and in - situ research and attempts to explore notions of «truth» and «visibility» with reference to the dérives, drawn from
Situationists practices.
In describing writing as a «poor substitute for the joy and the agony of love», e industrial introduces itself as a «meditation on human - machine reconfigurations, inflation and desire» inspired by the
Italian Situationist Giuseppe Pinot - Gallizio and his approach to mass - production and collapse.
One line in the 1959
Situationist film from which Mary Kelly's exhibition «On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time» took its name hovered over the show: «When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere representation of itself.»
In the work of Pepo Salazar the iconoclastic aesthetics of movements such as punk, rebellious attitudes or teenage vandalism, merge into constant allusions to the history of art, to utopian avant - garde movements, such as Dada,
Situationist proposals or contemporary philosophy.
The show's roster of more than forty artists working across a range of media casts a wide net both generationally and geographically, embracing, among others, Italian
Situationist Giuseppe Pinot - Gallizio, Gutai artist Kazuo Shiraga, Soviet - era Slovenian collective IRWIN, and the New York — based Ei Arakawa.
His works have something in common with the
1960s Situationists, a revolutionary group of European avant - garde artists, writers and poets who created large installations in unexpected places.
The International
Situationist idea of creating situations have inspired many contemporary artist — Dave Mckenzie and Tino Sehgal come to mind.
It's diverting for a while to see Blanchett done up as a homeless man, wandering through industrial rubble as she
shouts Situationist dogma at the lens in a Scottish accent, but there's nothing to it beyond technique.
The «dissident Revolutionary Lettrists,» as Wollen called them, were led by two young filmmakers, Guy Debord and Gil Wolman, who went on to
become situationists.
It transforms stuffy costume drama into
strange situationist comedy while delicately knocking an icon of history from his vaunted pedestal.
Gallery director Jane England is also committed to researching and curating retrospective exhibitions that reappraise artists from the British and European avant - garde of the 1930s through to the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s: these have included the abstract pioneer Paule Vézelay; the action - painter William Green;
founder Situationist Ralph Rumney; the kinetic sculptor Liliane Lijn; and a significant figure in British performance art and installation, Stuart Brisley.
There's also the erotic comic - strip art of Conrad Frost and Josep Gual, and poster art by the radical 1960s
British situationist group King Mob.
This inaugural article of a new column titled «The
New Situationists» investigates the romantic and collaborative relationship between poet John Giorno and artist Ugo Rondinone.
Situationist Gil J Wolman's «scotch art» canvases of the late 60s allude to conflicts of the time — Maoism, May ’68 and the Arab - Israeli War, among them.
Evoking the myths and histories of the «Wild West» and taking the form of vignettes that last under a minute (as per Rule Number One), the films draw on American Western folklore,
Situationist psychogeography, early film and primitive cinema, such as flipbooks and kinetoscopes.
They journey out of the studio, into the neighbourhood, the city, the territory or entire continent beyond, in a manner that evokes by turns Surrealist, Borgesian or
Situationist metropolitan perambulation, or exploration in wilderness spaces nature and culture.
Situationist humor is key to Cattelan's work, which provokes the viewer while pushing the boundaries of the self - contained art world and the frame of the exhibition space.
Kambalu sourced the original photographs from the archive of the Italian
Situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti at Yale University.
De Jong is notably the female figure of The International
Situationists who founded the Dutch Section of the group prior to her exclusion...
The Turner Prize nominee has filled the galleries with animated sculptures of characters from previous works, which take as much influence from science fiction as they do Shakespearean feasts and
Situationist follies.
The obstructions and reflections in Rhodes» work
mime situationist, interventionist, and textual gestures of reversal and provocation.
This exhibition marks the launch of seminal Senegalese process
based situationist artist Issa Samb's (aka Joe Ouakam) first monograph published by Raw Material Company in collaboration with OCA, Office of Contemporary Art Norway.
Latch yourself to Fluxus and
Situationist scholar Simon Anderson as you navigate the museum and its neighborhood.
They find mutual ground through a shared consideration of philosophy, politics and poetry, inducing interrogative forms that align with existentialist and
situationist thought.
The purest example comes from Pierre Huyghe, an innovative French artist who works in a Conceptual -
Situationist vein.
Despite both exhibitions being organized by large committees (and with the closet help of Danish artist and
Situationist Asger Jorn), it was upon Marinotti and Sandberg that the final selection of artists depended.
Known for his
part Situationist — revolt and part satire works, King's practice is a synthesis of art, design, and advertising, delivered with a pop sensibility.
On another screen, unrecognizably impersonated by Blanchett, a homeless vagabond staggers along apocalyptic industrial ruins, debunking capitalism with words from Guy Debord's
Situationist manifesto; the press release provides all sources of Blanchett's script and an introduction of Situationism in lay terms.
At mid-century, Guy Debord's
Situationists picked up the baton, staging disruptive public events and practicing «detournement,» or cut - up art.
On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time 2015 Wood, Perspex, Ken Knabb «
Situationist International Anthology» (Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981/2006), Shoreditch House Members Diary (2015) 121.5 x 100 x 30.5 cm / 47.8 x 39.3 x 12 in
«Considering the search for meaningful engagement in a society that feels increasingly fragmented, certain aspects
of Situationist theory are more topical than ever.»
One line in the 1959
Situationist film from which Mary Kelly's exhibition «On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time» took its name hovered over the show: «When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere representation of itself.»
The iconoclastic aesthetics of movements such as punk, rebellious attitudes or teenage vandalism merge into constant allusions to the history of art, to utopian avant - garde movements, such as Dada,
Situationist proposals or contemporary philosophy.
Any practicing
situationist would agree that judgments must be situationally realistic.