Urban Exploration

Aksaray. Do you see the white flags?

February 20, 2018April 30, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments aksaray, artist-in-residence, Federal Chancellery of Austria, installation, maurizio cirillo, performance, Urban Exploration

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

Place Hacking

Pre-Visitors on 3rd Bosporus Bridge

November 24, 2015November 24, 2015 Maximiliane Schneider 0 Comments 3rd Bosporus Bridge, Extreme Climbing, istanbul, Marat Dupri, Özcan İpar, Pavel Smirnov, place hacking, Urban Exploration

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

Seen Beyond

Dying Beauties

February 6, 2015February 18, 2015 Katharina Schmidt 0 Comments gentrification, Kadıköy, neoliberal urban development, Süleymaniye, timber houses, traditional craftwork, Urban Exploration, wood, wooden houses, Zeyrek

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

Events

Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces

February 4, 2015May 2, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments Berlin Senat, film @en, Gusztáv Hámos, india, Katja Pratschke, KHOJ, movie, photography, Sample Cities, Urban Exploration, urbanism

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

Seen Beyond

On the Landway to New York

October 9, 2014January 18, 2015 Markus Schmidt 0 Comments Anne Knödler, art in public space, leavinghomefunktion, performance, Ural motorcycle, Urban Exploration

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

Place Hacking

Skywalking around the World

August 15, 2014May 3, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments place hacking, skywalking, Urban Exploration, urban explorer

Illegal Photographs That Urban Climbers Risked Their Lives To Take Urban explorers or place hacker are groups of

Tightrope Walking

Man on Wire

July 9, 2014April 27, 2018 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments funambulist, New York, Philippe Petit, place hacking, tightrope walker, Urban Exploration, World Trade Center

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

Drifting

Berlin: counteracting gentrification – Markthalle IX

June 26, 2014July 1, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich 0 Comments berlin, kreuzberg, markthalle, Markthalle IX, urban change, Urban Exploration, urbanization

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

Place Hacking

Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky

March 16, 2014April 27, 2014 Thomas Büsch 0 Comments art in public space, Bradley Garrett, explore everything, london, matthew power, place hacking, situationists, Urban Exploration

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.