Urban Exploration

Aksaray. Do you see the white flags?

February 20, 2018April 30, 2018 Thomas Büsch

The artist in residence from Austria – Maurizio Cirillo – will have a performance at Aksaray, Istanbul on Saturday February

Pre-Visitors on 3rd Bosporus Bridge

November 24, 2015November 24, 2015 Maximiliane Schneider

Istanbul gets a 3rd Bosporus Bridge, connecting the European and Asian side. The construction is still in process but anyway

Dying Beauties

February 6, 2015November 14, 2019 Katharina Schmidt

Once the dominant style of İstanbul’s housing, the traditional wooden buildings are more and more vanishing from the city landscape:

Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces

February 4, 2015May 2, 2018 Thomas Büsch

Book Launch and Exhibition – the upcoming artist in residency from Berlin in Istanbul will have a book launch and

On the Landway to New York

October 9, 2014January 18, 2015 Markus Schmidt

leavinghomefunktion: 5 People + 5 Ural Motorcycles + 2 Years + 30.000 Kilometres In September 2014 five young artists from

Skywalking around the World

August 15, 2014May 3, 2018 Thomas Büsch

Illegal Photographs That Urban Climbers Risked Their Lives To Take [widgetkit id=15828] Urban explorers or place hacker are

Man on Wire

July 9, 2014April 27, 2018 Thomas Büsch

Philippe Petit was crossing illegally the space between the two towers of the World Trade Center in August 1974. Petit’s

Berlin: counteracting gentrification – Markthalle IX

June 26, 2014May 5, 2019 Johanna Fröhlich

The project Markthalle IX in Berlin successfully counteracts gentrification by reactivating a historical building. Today, the Markthalle IX is a

Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky

March 16, 2014April 27, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Bradley Garrett was returning from a monthlong study project in Cambodia, and seeing his adopted city of London again he

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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.