art in public space

Utopian Nights – Inside the Border

August 9, 2018August 9, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments art in public space, Fattima Mahdi, Lilia Ben Romdhane, migration, Mohamed Ibrahim, utopian nights, Valletta 2018

Utopian Nights in Malta includes a series of public events which bring artists and thinkers together to discuss important social issues related to exile and conflict.

Place Hacking Places Seen Beyond Topics Topography of Memory

The Lion, the “Which” and the War Told

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018 David Siegel 0 Comments art, art history, art in public space, Atlanta, documentary, exhibition, Film, Katharina Swoboda, Kunsthalle Luzern, Lion, Lucerne, USA, war

There is a bit of Darwin to Katharina Swoboda’s lions. An origin of a species of lion, one might say, migrating and changing but despite being made of stone. The Lion of Atlanta: a Research Story explores the one of the distant relatives of the Lion of Lucerne, which has made its home in Atlanta, USA since 1894.

Events Seen Beyond Voices

Gay Pride Celebration – Worldwide 2016

June 27, 2016May 2, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments art in public space, bisexual, clinton, csd, gay, gay pride, Gay Pride Month, Pope Francis, street art

June is designated as Gay Pride Month for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and celebrations are held throughout the

Place Hacking

Calligraffiti

April 8, 2016April 8, 2016 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments art in public space, cairo, Calligraffiti, calligraphy, eL Seed, graffiti, Graffiti Art, street art

The more you go to the East, the more you reach the West. The Tunisian-French street artist eL Seed has

Events Place Hacking

Prophecy on wounded landscapes

November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 Josefine Berkholz 0 Comments art in public space, creating awareness, Ecofund, exhibition, Fabrice Monteiro, Pollution, senegal, The Prophecy

For his latest photography-project Prophecy, Fabrice Monteiro created ten mythological-futuristic statues out of trash, each of them pointing out to

Détournement

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

The idea of Artist Placement stemmed from a group of UK artists, and was guided by John Latham

Place Hacking

Graffiti Artists vs. House Owners

June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments 5Pointz, art in public space, gentrification, graffiti, Graffiti Art, Maria Castillo, New York City, street art

For decades graffiti has been causing judical issues now. Most of this artworks are being created on walls that do

Place Hacking

Street Art in Istanbul: Kadıköy

February 3, 2015August 9, 2018 Katharina Schmidt 0 Comments art in public space, gezi, graffity, Kadıköy, Street Art Festival, Street Art Istanbul, urban art, Yeldeğirmeni

The Street Art Scene in Istanbul is constantly growing – for the most part thanks to the annual Street Art

Détournement

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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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.