#Situationist International

[the-cricket-chirps]

Constant (Constant A. Nieuwenhuys)

Untitled

1975-6

[jean-debor]

[jareckiworld]

Hans Peter Zimmer (1936-1992) — Emergency Landing  [oil, acrylic, spray paint, glue and sand on canvas, 1970]

[davidhudson]

Guy Debord, December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994.

With fellow founding members of the Situationist International, Michèle Bernstein and Asper Jorn.

[spaceintruderdetector]

back by popular demand

Society of the Spectacle (Donald Nicholson-Smith Translation) : Guy Debord : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[anarchistin]

Modern capitalism and its spectacle allot everyone a specific role in a general passivity. The student is no exception to the rule. He has a provisional part to play, a rehearsal for his final role as an element in market society as conservative as the rest. Being a student is a form of initiation, an initiation which echoes the rites of more primitive societies with bizarre precision. It goes on outside of history, cut off from social reality. The student leads a double life, poised between his present status and his future role. The two are absolutely separate, and the journey from one to the other is a mechanical event “in the future.” Meanwhile, he basks in a schizophrenic consciousness, withdrawing into his initiation group to hide from that future. Protected from history, the present is a mystic trance.

On the Poverty of Student Life, 1966

[anticbrvtalist]

Constant. Architectural design.

[areadersquoteslibrary]

"In the twenty-first century, the insomnia of reason does not breed monsters, but pets. No wonder there are no longer any gods, when what is expected of them is that they descend from Mount Olympus with plastic baggies and clean up."

- The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life And Glorious Times of the Situationist International",

McKenzie Wark

[redsolon]

The Soviet Union is gone, the Spanish Revolution failed, and the French uprisings of '68 dissipated. We live in a graveyard of revolutions, and people are arguing about which corpse tastes the sweetest.

[kelly-danger]

People keep posting about thier situationships in the Guy Debord Reddit

[the-cricket-chirps]

Ralph Rumney

The Change

1957

[fourdramas]

one of my guilty art pleasures is that i am kind of intrigued by the provocative artist Ibi-Pippi even though she is widely regarded to be part of a circle of right-wing artists in Denmark. she is probably most known - outside of Denmark - for a piece where she 'develops' the modification painting The Disquieting Duckling by Asger Jorn by entering the Jorn Museum in Silkeborg and drawing/gluing directly onto the canvas in the same manner as Jorn did when he first produced the art piece out of an pastoral painting.

the 'original' painting (modified only once), the disquieting duckling by asger jorn

she is now facing 1,5 years of unconditional imprisonment (which is a harsh sentence in Denmark) and the art piece is widely recognised as vandalism. however, I think this raises some interesting questions about what we regard as hard - how come that we celebrate Asger Jorn for 'détourning' a pastoral painting and exhibits his disquieting duckling but shun Ibi-Pippi for doing the same? it can be argued that the difference is that Jorn legally acquired his painting before modifying it whereas Ibi-Pippi went into a museum to make her art piece - but even though this certainly accounts for the legal side of the question (why only Ibi-Pippi has to go to jail) it doesn't explain why Ibi-Pippis painting is considered morally and aesthetically revolting.

the re-modified painting by ibi-pippi

another way to enquire is to say, well, Asger Jorn improved an otherwise boring painting that we did not consider to hold any special aesthetic value whereas Ibi-Pippi destroyed what we consider to be a masterpiece. However, not many people cared for The Disquieting Duckling before it got defaced so it's not so obvious what was really lost here - we have a lot of Jorn's other détournement pieces and the piece in question also still exists, albeit in a new form. it has probably lost monetary value but again, is this how we define art?

anyway, i think it's really interesting actually and i think it asks a lot of needed questions about what we see as art and what we doesn't see as art in a way that is still relevant and thought provoking. i think too often the question 'what is art?' is asked in a way that has now become un-interesting, by repeating what is basically just Duchamp's fountain. this is also a great piece and i think that it is extremely interesting that Ibi-Pippi is rarely being read in this tradition but is instead being continuously read in the tradition that is pure vandalism and destruction.

[jareckiworld]

Jacqueline de Jong — Playboy No. 1  (oil on canvas, 1964)

[davidhudson]

Guy Debord, December 28, 1931 - November 30, 1994.

[spaceintruderdetector]

In 1957 a few European avant-garde groups came together to form the Situationist International. Over the next decade the SI developed an increasingly incisive and coherent critique of modern society and of its bureaucratic pseudo-opposition, and its new methods of agitation were influential in leading up to the May 1968 revolt in France. Since then—although the SI itself was dissolved in 1972—situationist theses and tactics have been taken up by radical currents in dozens of countries all over the world.

Situationist International Anthology : Ken Knabb : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[anarchistin]

the only people who are underdeveloped are those who see a positive value in the power of their masters.

– mustapha khayati