Détournement Archives

Détournement Place Hacking

Make America Great Again

May 8, 2016 Thomas Büsch

If anyone is going to be threatened by a small penis, it’s Trump The artist’s pencil drawing by

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The Human Canvas

March 28, 2016 Thomas Büsch

Tatoo me by Illma Gore Over one year ago the LA-based street artist Illma Gore started her project ‚Tatoo me‘

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New Land, New Utopias – Part II: Micro Nations

February 19, 2016 Josefine Berkholz

What is a nation? Surprisingly enough, international law doesn’t give a satisfying answer to that. So why not invent one?

Détournement Place Hacking Urban Voices

New Land, New Utopias – Part I: Floating Territory

January 22, 2016 Josefine Berkholz

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, 2016 Josefine Berkholz

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, 2015 Thomas Büsch

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, 2015 Thomas Büsch

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, 2015 Thomas Büsch

[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, 2015 Thomas Büsch

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

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.