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New Land, New Utopias – Part I: Floating Territory

January 22, 2016May 4, 2019 Josefine Berkholz 0 Comments Blank spots, Chinampa, environmentalism, floating islands, New Atlantis, Richart Sowa, Spiral Island, Territory, uru, utopies

The Guano Island Act, a US law passed in 1856 and still effective, says that every US citizen who finds

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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Clothing

January 7, 2016May 5, 2019 Josefine Berkholz 0 Comments artsy, Eric M. Mack, fashion, New York

New York based artist Eric M. Macks work is all about engaging materials, top down, including their texture as well as their stories, and the harmonic arrangement of fragments from sometimes very diverse origins.

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Banksy’s Dismaland

August 24, 2015May 5, 2019 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments banksy, Dismaland, exhibition, massive attack, Pussy Riot, Westen-Super-Mare

It has been mysterious to the people of Westen-Super-Mare, a holiday resort in North Somerset, UK of what had been

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A Green Path Out of the Crisis

August 11, 2015August 11, 2015 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments crisis, greece, guerilla gardening, perka thessaloniki, urban agriculture, urban gardening, urban greening

Prices are rising, politics are instable, poorness is spreading across all layers of society. Greeks have been hit hard by

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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

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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, 2015December 11, 2019 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments exhibition, istanbul, maumau, sultan burcu demir

Legitimized culture manipulates the reality represented by particular objects so that objects do not stand for their concepts

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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

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.