Détournement – Page 2

Context is Half the Work

August 9, 2015May 2, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments art in public space, Artist Placement group, Barbara Steveni, conceptual art, exhibition, John Latham, kunstraum kreuzberg

[widgetkit id=19283] The idea of Artist Placement stemmed from a group of UK artists, and was guided by

Black Sea Traces Détournement Displacement

Artistic Report on Catastrophes and Utopia

June 6, 2015April 28, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments art and war, Chto Delat?, exhibition, kow berlin, Léopold Lambert, Nikolay Oleynikov, russia, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Ukraine

Since beginning of June this year fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government forces escalated again in Ukraine. A cease-fire did

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Library

January 25, 2015May 3, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments exhibition, istanbul, maumau, sultan burcu demir

[widgetkit id=17046] Legitimized culture manipulates the reality represented by particular objects so that objects do not stand for

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Alien She

January 23, 2015January 26, 2015 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Alien She, feminist movement, punk, Riot grrrl

[widgetkit id=17031] Currently on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Alien She is a touring exhibition that examines

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Guerrilla Art Action Group

January 9, 2015January 13, 2015 Katharina Schmidt 0 Comments GAAG, Guerilla Art Action Group, Jean Toche, Jon Hendricks, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Vietnam War

The Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) – founded in 1969 by the New Yorker artists Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche

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A portrait of George Maciunas

January 5, 2015January 26, 2015 Katharina Schmidt 0 Comments Emily Harvey Foundation, Fluxus, George Maciunas, Jeffrey Perkins, movie, New York, SoHo

The life of George Maciunas – artist, graphic designer, urban activist and founder of the avant-garde group Fluxus – is

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Most Confusing Performance of 2014

December 30, 2014April 29, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Deborah de Robertis, Gustave Courbet, L'Origine du monde, Musée d'Orsay

On May 29 the Luxembourgian performance artist Deborah de Robertis visited Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, sat down in front of Gustave

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Interventionale

October 17, 2014April 30, 2018 Markus Schmidt 0 Comments art in public space, Arunski & Poet, exhibition, Haus am Lützowplatz, intervention, Interventionale Berlin, place hacking

If people don’t come to art, art must come to the people. And if some parts of art are

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Take over the Subway Advertisers

October 5, 2014October 5, 2014 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments 2ESAE. SKI, graffiti, New York, streetart, subway

Watch Graffiti Artists Take Back Entire Subway Car From Advertisers The two New York graffiti artists 2ESAE & SKI replaced

Détournement or as we call it today Culture Jamming is a technique adapted by the Situationists International in the 1950s and was defined as "the integration of present or past artistic productions into a superior construction of a milieu. In this sense there can be no situationist painting or music, but only a situationist use of those means".

It has been defined elsewhere as "turning expressions of the system and its media culture against itself" - as when slogans and logos are turned against their advertisers or the political status quo.

Détournement was prominently used to set up subversive political pranks and it is one of the two basic techniques of the Situationists International.

The term "situationist" refers to the construction of situations, one of the early central concepts of the Situationist International. The term also refers to any individuals engaged in the construction of situations.

The situation was seen as a tool for the liberation of everyday life, a method of negating the pervasive alienation.

The authors of InEnArt will publish different phenomenas of Détournement and invite you to participate by uploading similar examples.