The International Situationist : 1957 – 1972
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In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (April 4 - August 5, 2007) was an exhibition held at the The Museum Tinguely on the Situationist International presents. The title refers to a 1978 film by Guy Debord.
- The Museum Tinguely presents the most extensive exhibition hitherto on the Situationist International that was founded on July 28, 1957. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation, 400 exhibits will illustrate this last important avant-garde movement that counted 72 artists among its members, with sections in Germany, Holland, America, North Africa and elsewhere, rescuing it from oblivion.[1]
The catalogue
Published to accompany the exhibitions at Centraal Museum Utrecht, 15 December 2006 – 11 March 2007, and The Museum Tinguely, Basel, 4 April – 5 August 2007.
Texts by Giorgio Agamben, Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Thomas Hirschhorn, Vincent Kaufmann, François Letaillieur, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Peter Sloterdijk and others
Edited by Heinz Stahlhut, Juri Steiner, Stefan Zweifel
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.
