The Situationist International. (1957-1972) In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni. Catalogues, Biennales & Collections

Edited by
Heinz Stahlhut
Juri Steiner
Stefan Zweifel
Author(s)
Giorgio Agamben
Jean Beaudrillard
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Thomas Hirschhorn
Vincent Kaufmann
Francois Letaillieur
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Peter Sloterdijk, etc
A new perspective on Situationism

This publication provides an insight into one of the 20th century's most underrated (anti-)art movements. The rather shadowy existence led by the Situationists and their Lettrist predecessors in the annals of the post-war avant-garde, and the indeterminacy of their legacy are largely of their own making: their agenda of political radicalism and negativity included a strict refusal to co-operate with the "bourgeois" mass media and enter the wider intellectual and political debate.

Published in collaboration with Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and Museum Tinguely, Basel.