Situationist International
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Founded in July 1957, the Situationist International brought together currents of experimental poetry, avant-garde art, and radical social criticism to explore new techniques of engagement in cultural protest and revolutionary praxis. Although the organization itself remained small and disbanded in 1972, the SI shaped the interaction of art and politics at crucial moments in the evolution of postwar culture, including the transnational uprisings of 1968 and 1977. Its influence continues to be felt today. (Source)
Contents
Members
Based on an appendix to James Trier's book Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit, 2019.
Name | SI section | Year admitted | Year excluded or resigned | Excluded, resigned, split |
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Guy Debord | French | 1957 July | 1972 April | Member to the end |
Michèle Bernstein | French | 1957 July | 1967 Fall | R |
Asger Jorn | French | 1957 July | 1961 April | R |
Mustapha Khayati | French | 1965 March | 1969 September | R |
René Viénet | French | 1963 Spring | 1971 February | R |
Anton Hartstein | French | 1966 Early | 1966 July | E |
Jean Garnault | French | 1966 July | 1967 January | E |
Herbert Holl | French | 1966 July | 1967 January | E |
Theo Frey[1] | French | 1966 July | 1967 January | E |
Edith Frey | French | 1966 July | 1967 January | E |
Ndjangani Lungela | French | 1966 July | 1967 Late | R |
René Riesel | French | 1968 Fall | 1971 September | E |
Alain Chevalier | French | 1968 Fall | 1969 October | E |
François de Beaulieu | French | 1968 Fall | 1970 July | R |
Patrick Cheval | French | 1968 Fall | 1970 January | R |
Christian Sebastiani | French | 1968 Fall | 1970 December | R |
Walter Olmo | Italian | 1957 July | 1958 January | E |
Piero Simondo | Italian | 1957 July | 1958 January | E |
Elena Verrone | Italian | 1957 July | 1958 January | E |
Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio | Italian | 1957 July | 1960 May | E |
Giors Melanotte[2] | Italian | 1957 | 1960 May | E |
Glauco Wuerich | Italian | 1958 May | 1960 May | E |
Claudio Pavan | Italian | 1969 January | 1970 March | E |
Eduardo Rothe | Italian | 1969 Spring | 1970 April | E |
Paolo Salvadori | Italian | 1969 January | 1970 August | E |
Gianfranco Sanguinetti | Italian | 1969 January | 1972 April | Member to the end |
Walter Korun[3] | Belgian | 1957 | 1958 October | E |
Maurice Wyckaert | Belgian | 1958 April | 1961 April | E |
Raoul Vaneigem | Belgian | 1961 Early | 1970 November | R |
Attila Kotányi | Belgian | 1960 May | 1963 December | E |
Jan Strijbosch | Belgian | 1962 November | 1966 July | E |
Rudi Renson | Belgian | 1962 November | 1966 July | E |
Ralph Rumney | English | 1957 July | 1958 June | E |
Donald Nicholson-Smith | English | 1965 Fall | 1967 December | E |
T.J. Clark | English | 1965 Fall | 1967 December | E |
Chris Gray | English | 1966 October | 1967 December | E |
Charles Radcliffe | English | 1966 October | 1967 November | R |
Mohamed Dahou | Algerian | 1957 | 1959 December | R |
Abdelhafid Khatib | Algerian | 1957 | 1960 December | R |
Constant Nieuwenhuys | Dutch | 1957 | 1960 June | R |
Har Oudejans | Dutch | 1959 March | 1960 March | E |
Anton Alberts | Dutch | 1959 March | 1960 March | E |
Armando[4] | Dutch | 1959 March | 1960 March | E |
Jacqueline de Jong | Dutch | 1960 July | 1962 March | Split |
Hans Peter Zimmer | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1959 April | 1962 February | E |
Hans Platschek | German | 1958 January | 1959 February | E |
Uwe Lausen | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1959 February | 1965 March | E |
Heimrad Prem | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1959 April | 1962 February | E |
Helmut Sturm | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1959 April | 1962 February | E |
Heinz Hofl | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1959 April | 1960 May | R |
Erwin Eisch | German (Gruppe Radama) | 1959 April | 1962 February | E |
Lothar Fischer | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1959 April | 1962 February | E |
E. R. Nele | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1959 April | 1962 February | E |
Gretel Stadler | German (Gruppe Radama) | 1959 April | 1962 February | E |
Dieter Kunzelmann | German (Gruppe SPUR) | 1961 Early | 1962 February | E |
Jørgen Nash | Scandinavian | 1960 Summer | 1962 March | Split |
Ansgar Elde | Scandinavian | 1960 Summer | 1962 March | Split |
Steffan Larsson | Scandinavian | 1960 Summer | 1962 March | Split |
Katja Lindell | Scandinavian | 1960 Summer | 1962 March | Split |
Hardy Strid | Scandinavian | 1960 Summer | 1962 March | Split |
JV Martin | Scandinavian | 1961 August | 1972 April | Member to the end |
Peter Laugesen | Scandinavian | 1962 Summer | 1963 December | E |
Robert Chasse | American | 1969 January | 1970 January | E |
Bruce Elwell | American | 1969 January | 1970 January | E |
Jon Horelick | American | 1969 Spring | 1970 November | E |
Tony Verlaan | American | 1969 January | 1970 November | E |
Alexander Trocchi | Scottish / No section | 1957 | 1964 Fall | E |
Andre Frankin | Belgian / No SI section | 1957 | 1961 March | R |
Jacques Ovadia | Israeli / No SI section | 1960 June | 1961 November | R |
Ivan Chtcheglov[5] | French / No SI section | Member to the end? |
Of the total of 70 members, there were 44 exclusions, 16 resignations, 6 splits, and 4 members until the end (if Chtcheglov is included).
Notes
- ↑ Theo and Edith Frey were siblings.
- ↑ “Giors Melanotte” is a pseudonym for Giorgio Gallizio.
- ↑ “Walter Korun” is a pseudonym for Piet de Groof.
- ↑ “Armando” is a pseudonym for Herman Dirk Van Dodeweerd.
- ↑ Chris Gray’s SI membership chart in Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International (132-133) lists Ivan Chtcheglov as an SI member. However, Chtcheglov was excluded from the Lettrist International, and, according to SI scholarship published in English, Debord never formally admitted Chtcheglov into the SI. Gray for some reason identifies Chtcheglov as a "Member from Afar", but he was not. Chtcheglov wrote several letters to Debord and Bernstein in 1966, excerpts of which were published in Internationale Situationniste (issue nine, 1964) in an article titled "Letters from Afar", but Debord left no written record of ever according Chtcheglov the status of "member from afar". Chtcheglov’s membership in the SI seems to be a myth, born of an error whose origin is a mystery. All that said, perhaps in the French scholarship that has not yet been translated into English there exists some evidence of Debord admitting Chtcheglov into the SI as a “member from afar.” On the basis of that outside possibility, Chtcheglov is included in this chart.
Publications
Periodicals
- Internationale situationniste. Bulletin central éd. par les sections de l'Internationale situationniste, 12 numbers, ed. Guy-Ernest Debord, Paris, Jun 1958-Sep 1969, HTML. (French)
- Internationale Situationniste. Réédition d’articles (Supplement a 4 Millions de Jeunes Travailleurs), Paris: Les Amis de 4 millions de jeunes travailleurs, [1970], 44 pp. (French)
- The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International, trans. & ed. Christopher Gray, London: Free Fall Publications, 1974, 167 pp; repr. as Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International, intro. Richard Parry, London: Rebel Press, 1998, vii+136 pp. [1] (English)
- Internacional Situacionista, 1: La realización del arte, numbers 1-6, trans. Luis Navarro, 1999. (Spanish)
- Spur. Organ der Situationistische Internationale, 7 numbers, ed. Gruppe Spur, Munich, Aug 1960-Jan 1962. (German)
- The Situationist Times, 6 numbers, eds. Jacqueline de Jong (1-6) and Noël Arnaud (1-2), Hengelo (NL), Copenhagen and Paris, May 1962-Dec 1967. (English)
- Situationistisk revolution: centralorgan for den skandinaviske sektion af situationistisk internationale, 3 numbers, ed. J.V. Martin, 1962 & 1967 & Oct 1970; repr., Aarhus: After Hand, 2013. [2] [3] [4] (Danish)
- Der Deutsche Gedanke. Organ der Situationistischen Internationale für Mitteleuropa, 1 issue, ed. Raoul Vaneigem, Brussels, Apr 1963. First issue of the Internationale situationniste in Germany, Der Deutsche Gedanke was meant to replace Spur after the exclusion of the group. [5]. (German)
Books (selection)
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For more, see pages of individual members such as Debord, Bernstein, Jorn, Vaneigem, De Jong, a.o.
- Guy Debord, Rapport sur la construction des situations et sur les conditions de l'organisation et de l'action de la tendance Situationniste Internationale, [Brussels]: Internationale Situationniste, [Jun 1957], 20 pp; repr. in Inter 44, Quebec, 1989, xi pp; repr. as Rapport sur la construction des situations, Paris: Fayard, 2000, 64 pp. [6] [7]
- Asger Jorn, Pour la forme: ébauche d’une méthodologie des arts, Paris: Internationale situationniste, 1957; repr. as Pour la forme: ébauche d’une méthodologie des arts précédé de Dix années d’art expérimental: Jorn et son rôle dans l’invention théorique par G.-E. Debord, pref. Guy Debord, Paris: Allia, 2001, 157 pp. (French)
- Asger Jorn, Critique de la politique économique suivie de La Lutte Finale, Paris: Internationale Situationniste, [1960], 38 pp; repr., Paris: Sens & Tonka, 2001. (French)
- Value and Economy: Critique of Political Economy and the Exploitation of the Unique, Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism, 1962, 99 pp, PDF. (English)
- Guy Debord, La Société du Spectacle, Paris: Buchet-Chastel, 14 Nov 1967, 175 pp; repr., Paris: Champ Libre, 29 Sep 1971; 3rd ed., Paris: Gallimard, 21 Sep 1992, 184 pp; repr., Paris: Gallimard, 23 Jan 1996.
- Society of the Spectacle, trans. Ken Knabb, London: Rebel Press, 2005, 119 pp; new ed., annot., Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2014, vi+150 pp. (English)
- more translations
- Raoul Vaneigem, Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations, Paris: Gallimard, Dec 1967. (French)
- Tratado del saber vivir para uso de las jovenes generaciones, trans. Javier Urcanibia, 1977; 2008. (Spanish)
- The Revolution Of Everyday Life, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, London: Left Bank Books and Rebel Press, 1983; London: Rebel Press, 2001, 279 pp. (English)
- The English Section of the Situationist International (Tim Clarke, Christopher Gray, Charles Radcliffe, Donald Nicholson-Smith), The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution, 1967; repr., London: Chronos Publications, 1994, 26 pp. (English)
Manifestos, proclamations
- "Manifeste", Internationale situationniste 4, ed. G.-E. Debord, Paris, Jun 1960, pp 36-38. Dated 17 May 1960. (French)
- "Situationist Manifesto", trans. Fabian Tompsett, in Cosmonauts of the Future, eds. Bolt and Jakobsen, 2015, pp 47-49. (English)
- "Kampen om det situkratiska samhället. Ett situationistiskt manifest", Drakabygget. Tidskrift för konst, mot atombomber, påvar och politiker 2-3 (1962); repr. in Situationist Times 2 (1962). Signed by the members of the Stockholm Conference in August 1962. (Swedish)
- "The Struggle of the Situcratic Society: A Situationist Manifesto", in Cosmonauts of the Future, eds. Bolt and Jakobsen, 2015, pp 89-95. (English)
- Adresse aux révolutionnaires d'Algérie et de tous les pays / Address to the Revolutionaries of Algeria and of All Countries / ..., Paris, Nov 1965, [28] pp. Circulated clandestinely in Algeria (July 1965) and reprinted as supplement to Internationale Situationniste 10 (Paris, March 1966). (French)/(German)/(Spanish)/(English)/(Arabic)
Catalogues
- Destruktion af RSG-6: en kollektiv manifestation af Situationistisk Internationale, Odense: Galerie Exi, 1963, 26 pp. (Danish),(French),(English)
Anthologies
- Situationister 1957-70, eds. Ambrosius Fjord and Patrick O'Brien [Jørgen Nash and Jens-Jørgen Thorsen], Copenhagen: Bauhaus Situationniste, 1971. Preface. Thorsen's text, (2). (Danish)
- Situationist International Anthology, ed. & trans. Ken Knabb, 1981; rev. & exp. ed., Berkeley, CA: Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006, 532 pp, Log, EPUB, HTML. (English)
- An Endless Passion... an Endless Banquet: A Situationist Scrapbook, ed. Iwona Blazwick, London: Verso, and London: Institute for Contemporary Art, 1989, 96 pp. Selected documents from the SI from 1957-1962, and documents tracing the impact on British culture from the 1960s to the 1980s. Review: Smith (Oxford Art J). (English)
- Der Beginn einer Epoche. Texte der Situationisten, forew. Roberto Ohrt, trans. Pierre Gallissaires, Hanna Mittelstädt, and Roberto Ohrt, Hamburg: Nautilus, 1995, 320 pp; 2nd ed., 2008. [8] (German)
- Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968, ed. Dark Star, Edinburgh and San Francisco: AK Press, and Dark Star, 2001, 120 pp. Contains 3 pamphlets from the 1960s: The Poverty of Student Life; Totality for Kids; and The Decline and Fall of the Spectacular Commodity Economy; and other documents. (English)
- Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents, ed. Tom McDonough, MIT Press, 2002. (English)
- The Situationists and the City: A Reader, ed. Tom McDonough, London: Verso, 2010, 288 pp. [9] (English)
- Cosmonauts of the Future: Texts from the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, eds. Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jakob Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2015, 304 pp. [10] (English)
More
- Publications on situationists at Monoskop Log
- Situationist Library at 1000 Little Hammers
- Libcom.org's reading guide
- Catalogue.
Film
- Debord's films
- Viénet's films on UbuWeb
- Situationist Film at 0xDB
Documentaries
- On the Passage of a few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International 1956-1972, documentary, 1989, 22 min.
Literature
- Mario Perniola, Agar-Agar 4: "I Situazionisti", Rome: Arcana, Apr-Aug 1972, 92 pp; repr. as I Situazionisti: il movimento che ha profetizzato la società dello spettacolo, Rome: Castelvecchi, 1998, 123 pp; repr., 2005. (Italian)
- Los situacionistas: historia crítica de la última vanguardia del siglo XX, trans. Álvaro García-Ormaechea, Madrid: Acuarela, and Boadilla del Monte: A. Machado Libros, 2008, 175 pp. (Spanish)
- Die Situationisten: Prophetie der "Gesellschaft des Spektakels", trans. Laura Albers, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2011, 180 pp. (German)
- Jean-Jacques Raspaud, Jean-Pierre Voyer, L'Internationale Situationniste: chronologie, bibliographie, protagonistes (avec un index des noms insulté), Paris: Champ Libre, 1972. (French)
- Pinot Gallizio et il Laboratorio Sperimentale d’Alba del Movimento Internazionale per una Bauhaus Imaginista (1955-57) e dell’Internazionale Situazionista (1957-60), Torino: Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, 1974, [128+50] pp. Catalogue. [11] [12] [13] (Italian)
- David Jacobs, Christopher Winks, At Dusk: The Situationist Movement in Historical Perspective, Berkeley: Perspectives, 1975, 91 pp, ARG. Commentary: NotBored. (English)
- Mirella Bandini, L'estetico il politico: da Cobra all'Internazionale Situazionista, 1948-1957, Rome: Officina, 1977, 391 pp. (Italian)
- L'Esthétique, le politique: de Cobra à l’internationale Situationniste, 1948-1957, trans. Claude Galli, Arles: Sulliver, and Marseille: Via Valeriano, 1998, 353 pp. Review: Debecque-Michel (Critique d'art). (French)
- Hurl Barbe [Pierre Laurendeau], Pompe le mousse, Paris: Brigandine, 1982, 188 pp; repr., Sous la Cape, 2013, 144 pp. Novel. [14] [15] (French)
- Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle, Paris: Lebovici, May 1988; new ed. as Commentaires sur la société du spectacle, suivi de Préface à la quatrième édition italienne de 'La Société du Spectacle', Paris: Gallimard, 1992; repr., 1996. [16] (French)
- Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, trans. Malcolm Imrie, London: Verso, 1990, 94 pp. (English)
- more translations
- Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, London: Secker & Warburg, 1989, 496 pp; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989, 496 pp; new ed., London: Penguin, 1993, 512 pp; repr., Harvard University Press, 2009. (English)
- Tracce di rossetto: percorsi segreti nella cultura del Novecento dal dada ai Sex Pistols, trans. Mita Vitti, Milan: Leonardo, 1991, 506 pp; repr., Milan: Il Saggiatore, 2018, 523 pp. (Italian)
- Lipstick Traces: von Dada bis Punk - eine geheime Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, trans. Hans M. Herzog and Friedrich Schneider, Hamburg: Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweitausendeins, 1992, 512 pp. (German)
- Rastros de carmín. Una historia secreta del siglo XX, trans. Damián Alou, Barcelona: Anagrama, 1993, 527 pp. (Spanish)
- Lipstick traces: une histoire secrète du vingtième siècle, trans. Guillaume Godard, Paris: Gallimard, 1998, 602 pp. [17] (French)
- Stopy rtěnky: tajná historie dvacátého století, trans. Dušan Krejčí, Olomouc: Votobia, 1998, 427 pp. (Czech)
- Ruj lekesi: Yirminci Yüzyılın gizli tarihi, trans. Gürol Koca, Istanbul: Ayrıntı, 1999, 496 pp. (Turkish)
- Sledy pomady: Taynaya istoriya XX veka [Следы помады: Тайная история XX века], trans. A. Umnyashov, Moscow: Hylaea (Гилея), 2019, 640 pp. [18] (Russian)
- Roberto Ohrt, Phantom Avantgarde: eine Geschichte der Situationistischen Internationale und der modernen Kunst, Hamburg: Nautilus, 1990, 333 pp; 2nd ed., 1997, 333 pp. [19] (German)
- Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Enrico Ghezzi, Luisa Passerini, Alberto Piccinini, Francesco Poli, Filippo Scarpelli, Roberto Silvestri, Paolo Virno, I Situazionisti, Rome: Manifestolibri Set, 1991, 94 pp. (Italian)
- On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International, 1957-1972, ed. Elisabeth Sussman, MIT Press, and Boston: ICA, 1991, vii+200 pp. Catalogue for exh. held at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1989; texts by David A. Ross, Elisabeth Sussman, Mark Francis, Peter Wöllen, Troels Anderson, Mirella Bandini, Thomas Y. Levin, and Greil Marcus. [20]. Review: Smith (Oxford Art J). (English)
- Sadie Plant, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International and After, London: Routledge, 1992, 240 pp. (English)
- Lund Art Press 2(3): "Bauhaus Situationist", 1992. Special issue on the Scandinavian Bauhaus Situationist movement. (English)
- Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration, 5 numbers, ed. Alastair Bonnett, London: Salamander Press, 1995-2001. [21] [22] [23] [24] (English)
- Stewart Home (ed.), What Is Situationism? A Reader, Edinburgh and San Francisco: AK Press, 1996, 203 pp. (English)
- Situacionistas: arte, politica, urbanismo / Situationists: Art, Politics, Urbanism, ed. Libero Andreotti, Barcelona: Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 1996, 167 pp. Catalogue. (Spanish)/(English)
- Gianfranco Marelli, L'amara vittoria del Situazionismo: per una storia critica dell'Internationale Situationniste, 1957-1972, Pisa: Biblioteca Franco Serantini, 1996, 396 pp; new ed., rev., upd. & exp., Milan: Mimesis, 2017, 445 pp. (Italian)
- L'Amère victoire du Situationnisme: pour une histoire critique du Situationnisme, 1957-1972, trans. David Bosc, Arles: Sulliver, 1998, 427 pp. Review: Debecque-Michel (Critique d'art). (French)
- Oiseau-tempête: revue de critique sociale, 13 numbers, ed. Barthélémy Schwartz et al., Paris: Ab Irato, 1997-2006. Journal. [25] (French)
- October 79: "Guy Debord and the Internationale situationniste", ed. Thomas F. McDonough, MIT Press, Winter 1997, PDF. (English)
- Simon Sadler, The Situationist City, MIT Press, 1998, ix+233 pp. (English)
- Situationistische Internationale 1957-1972, ed. Dieter Schrage, Vienna: MUMOK and Triton, 1998, 120 pp. Catalogue for an exh. held 31 Jan-15 Mar 1998. (German)
- Roberto Ohrt (ed.), Das große Spiel. Die Situationisten zwischen Politik und Kunst, Hamburg: Nautilus, 2000, 224 pp. [26] (German)
- Catherine de Zegher, Mark Wigley (eds.), The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond, New York: Drawing Center, and MIT Press, 2001. (English)
- Archives et documents situationnistes, 5 issues, Paris: Denoël, 2001-2005. Journal. [27] (French)
- J.U.P. [Jane Heiss, Ulrike Müller, Patricia Reschenbach], Situationistinnen und andere..., afterw. Renée Green, Berlin: b_books, 2001, 77 pp. [28] [29] [30] (German)
- Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Situationistisk Danmarkskort. Noter om Situationistisk Internationale i Danmark, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2003, 35 pp. (Danish)
- Situationist Map of Denmark: Notes on the Situationist International in Denmark, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Free University, 2004, 35 pp. (English)
- Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Den sidste avantgarde. Situationistisk Internationale hinsides kunst og politik, Copenhagen: Politisk Revy, 2004. (Danish)
- Laurent Chollet, Les Situationnistes: l'utopie incarnée, Paris: Gallimard, 2004, 127 pp. [31] [32] (French)
- Figures de la négation: avant-gardes du dépassement de l'art, ed. Yan Ciret, Saint-Étienne: Musée d'art moderne, 2004, 178 pp. TOC. Catalogue for exh. held 22 Nov 2003-22 Feb 2004. (French)
- Simon Ford, Situationist International: A User’s Guide, London: Black Dog, 2004, 208 pp. Review: Westermann (Leonardo). (English)
- Die Situationistische Internationale: eine Gebrauchsanleitung, trans. Egon Günther, Hamburg: Nautilus, 2007, 224 pp. [33] (German)
- Kelly Baum, The Politics of Pleasure: Gender, Desire, and Détournement in the Art of the Situationist International, University of Delaware, 2005. PhD dissertation. (English)
- In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: The Situationist International, 1957-1972, eds. Stefan Zweifel, Juri Steiner, and Heinz Stahlhut, Zürich: JRP/Ringier, 2006, 247 pp. Catalogue for an exh. held at the Centraal Museum Utrecht, 14 Dec 2006-11 Mar 2007; Museum Tinguely, Basel, 4 Apr-5 Aug 2007. (English)
- Stephan Grigat, Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner (eds.), Spektakel – Kunst – Gesellschaft. Guy Debord und die Situationistische Internationale, Berlin: Verbrecher, 2006, 250 pp. (German)
- T.J. Clark, Donald Nicholson-Smith, Pourquoi l'art ne peut pas tuer l'Internationale situationniste, Marseille: Egrégores, 2006, 47 pp. (French)
- De Nieuwe 11(15): "Spectacle", Amsterdam: Arti et Amicitiae, May 2007, 23 pp. (Dutch)
- Kelly Baum, "The Sex of the Situationist International", October 126, Fall 2008, pp 23-43. (English)
- McKenzie Wark, 50 Years of Recuperation: The Situationist International 1957-2007, New York: Buell Center, and Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, 48+[32] pp. Review: Kinkle (Hist Mat). [34] (English)
- McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, London: Verso, 2011, 224 pp. (English)
- Kaldırım Taşlarının Altında Kumsal Var, trans. Arda Çiltepe, Istanbul: SEL, 2014, 226 pp. [35] (Turkish)
- La playa bajo la calle: la vida cotidiana y los momentos gloriosos de la Internacional Situacionista, trans. José Luis Piquero, Paracuellos de Jarama (Madrid): Hermida, 2018, 272 pp. (Spanish)
- Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jakob Jakobsen (eds.), Expect Anything Fear Nothing: The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere, Copenhagen: Nebula, and New York: Autonomedia, 2011, 288 pp. (English)
- Tom McDonough, "Unrepresentable Enemies: On the Legacy of Guy Debord and the Situationist International", Afterall 28, Autumn/Winter 2011, pp 42-55.
- Max Jakob Orlich, Situationistische Internationale: Eintritt, Austritt, Ausschluss. Zur Dialektik interpersoneller Beziehungen und Theorieproduktion einer ästhetisch-politischen Avantgarde (1957-1972), Bielefeld: transcript, 2011, 629 pp. Excerpt. [36] (German)
- Patrick Greaney, "Insinuation: Détournement as Gendered Repetition", South Atlantic Quarterly 110:1, Winter 2011, pp 75-88. (English)
- Jen Kennedy, "Charming Monsters: The Spectacle of Feminity in France", Grey Room 49, Fall 2012, pp 57-79. (English)
- McKenzie Wark, The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century, London: Verso, 2013. (English)
- Grey Room 52: "Guy Debord's Cinema", Summer 2013. [38] [39] (English)
- Frances Stracey, Constructed Situations: A New History of the Situationist International, Pluto Press, 2014, ARG. Reviews: Cosma (review31), Memou (Phil Photography), Man (Mytho), Danchev (THE), Brulhart (Critique d'art, FR). (English)
- Éric Brun, Les situationnistes: une avant-garde totale (1950-1972), Paris: CNRS, 2014, 454 pp. Reviews: Trespeuch-Berthelot (La vies des idées), Mathieu (Lectures). (French)
- Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level: J.V. Martin and the Situationist International, Berlin: Sternberg, and Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2015, 64 pp. [40] (English)
- Anna Trespeuch-Berthelot, L'Internationale situationniste: de l'histoire au mythe, (1948-2013), pref. Pascal Ory, Paris: PUF, 2015, 564 pp. Review: Zerilli (Lectures). [41] (French)
- Nicholas Thoburn, "Sandpaper Memoires", in Thoburn, Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing, University of Minnesota Press, 2016, pp 149-167. (English)
- Marvin Chlada, Bernd Kalus (eds.), Situationistische Internationale, Duisburg: Dialog & Trikont, 130 pp. [42] (German)
- Daniel Birnbaum, Kim West, Life on Sirius: The Situationist International and the Exhibition after Art, Berlin: Sternberg, and Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 2017, 72 pp. [43] (English)
- Sam Cooper, The Situationist International in Britain. Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde, Routledge, 2017, 185 pp. [44] (English)
- Lori Waxman, Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist international, and Fluxus, Berlin: Sternberg, 2017, 285 pp. TOC. [45] (English)
- David A.J. Murrieta Flores, Situationist Margins: The Situationist Times, King Mob, Black Mask, and S.NOB Magazines (1962-1970), University of Essex, 2017, 304 pp. PhD dissertation. (English)
- Anthony Paul Hayes, How the Situationist International Became What It Was, Australian National University, 2017, 337 pp. PhD dissertation. (English)
- Wolfgang Scheppe, Roberto Ohrt, The Most Dangerous Game. Der Weg der Situationistischen Internationale in den Mai 68, 2 vols., Berlin: Merve, 2018, 908+80 pp. [46] [47] (German)
- Tanya Loi, We Make Revolution in Our Spare Time: The History and Legacy of the Situationist International, Public Reading Rooms, 2019, 80 pp. [48] [49] [50] (English)
- James Trier, Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit, Leiden: Brill, 2019, xii+453 pp. [51] [52] (English)
- Encyclopedic entries
en Oxford DA, Tate, Wikipedia. it Treccani. cr Šuvaković.
- Bibliography
- Simon Ford, The Realization And Suppression Of The Situationist International: An Annotated Bibliography 1972–1992, AK Press, 1996, 155 pp. [53] (English)
Resources
- Situationist International Online
- Situationist International Archives
- Situationist International in Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Situationist International resource, compiled by Co Seegers
- Internationale Situationniste in English
- Situationist International on LibCom.org
- Copenhagen Free University: Situationist research
- Copenhagen Free University: Situationistisk arkiv (Danish)
- Scandinavian Situationism, timeline and text archive by Jakob Jakobsen.
- Situationistische Internationale (German)
Exhibitions
- Situationister 1957-71 Drakabygget, Skånska Konstmuseum, Lund/Sweden, 1971. Catalogue text.
- On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International, 1957-1972, Musée National d’Art Modern Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 21 Feb-9 Apr 1989; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 23 Jun-13 Aug 1989; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 20 Oct 1989-7 Jan 1990. Catalogue published. Exh. review: Smith (NY Times).
- An Army of Liars: Situationists in Scandinavia, Kunsthall Oslo, 25 Nov 2016-29 Jan 2017. First major exhibition to examine the legacy of the Situationist movement in the region. Archive material.
- The World We Must Leave: An Idea of Revolution by Jakob Jakobsen and Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Kunsthal Aarhus, 19 Nov 2010-9 Jan 2011; Kunsthall Oslo, 25 Nov 2016-29 Jan 2017. Works and documents from the SI and 3 short films. Exhibition guides: Aarhus, Oslo.
- Jacqueline De Jong: The Situationist Times, 1962-1967, exhibition, Boo-Hurray, New York, 9-25 May 2012.
- An Army of Liars: Situationists in Scandinavia, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, 25 Nov 2016-29 Jan 2017. The first major exhibition to examine the legacy of the Situationist movement across Scandinavia. Review: Norton (Kunstkritikk, NO).
- Die Welt als Labyrint, MAMCO, Geneva, 28 Feb-6 May 2018. An exhibition on Letterism, Letterist International, Second Letterist International, Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, Experimental Laboratory of Alba, London Psychogeographical Association, Situationist International, Situationist Times, and SPUR. Curated by John Armleder, Gérard Berreby, Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier, Alexandra Catana Tucknott, Julien Fronsacq, and Mai-Thu Perret.
- Jacqueline De Jong & The Situationist Times: Same Player Shoots Again!, exhibition, Torpedo/PUB, Oslo, 11 May-2 Sep 2018; Konsthall Malmö, 15 Sep 2018-13 Jan 2019; Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 31 Aug-1 Dec 2019. Curated by Ellef Prestsæter in collaboration with Torpedo and Jacqueline de Jong. Review: Henriksen (Kunstkritikk).
- The Most Dangerous Game: The Situationist International en route for May '68, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 27 Sep-10 Dec 2018. First reconstruction of the unfinished project Bibliothèque situationniste de Silkeborg outlined by Debord with Asger Jorn. Devised by Wolfgang Scheppe in collaboration with Roberto Ohrt and Eleonora Sovrani. Two-volume book published. Exh. review: Henriksen (Kunstkritikk).
See also
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