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Street Art in Istanbul: Kadıköy

February 3, 2015November 14, 2019 Katharina Schmidt

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

Interventionale

October 17, 2014April 30, 2018 Markus Schmidt

If people don’t come to art, art must come to the people. And if some parts of art are

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

Counterforce against Global Gentrification

June 23, 2014January 28, 2015 Johanna Fröhlich

Global Gentrification Istanbul, Shanghai, Berlin or San Francisco. Metropolitan flair, international inhabitants and diversity are certainly one of the first

Art is Trash

June 20, 2014May 4, 2019 Thomas Büsch

Trash is not a pleasant sight. Nobody likes to be around it. But it’s also a fact that you can’t

Fifa World Cup in Brazil

June 16, 2014July 10, 2014 Johanna Fröhlich

Ever since the 70´s, graffiti art is used as vehicle to express uncensored resentment and opinion. The Brazilian street artists

The New Urban Vandalism

May 25, 2014July 1, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Why Cities Are Destroying Graffiti, by Winifred Curran Shanghai’s Moganshan Lu graffiti wall Any day now, the rest of Shanghai’s

Intervening in Public Space

May 19, 2014May 3, 2018 Thomas Büsch

[widgetkit id=14639] For almost three decades, Harmen de Hoop has anonymously but consistently been intervening in public space. Whether

Disobedience Archive (The Park)

April 11, 2014April 27, 2014 Thomas Büsch

Exhibition at Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul, opening April 22 about artistic practice in relation to political action: the videos and ephemera

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.