Situationist Times
The Situationist Times was a magazine edited and published by Jacqueline de Jong in six issues between May 1962 and December 1967 in Hengelo (Netherlands), Copenhagen and Paris. First issues appeared in an edition of 1000; thereafter expanding to 2000.
De Jong, a Dutch artist and graphic designer, joined the Situationist movement in 1960, and quickly assumed a position within the Central Committee. De Jong was determined to make "a completely free magazine, based on the most creative of the Situationist ideas," and in 1962 she began The Situationist Times, a broad representation of a movement that had already become divided into the political and the aesthetic.
The magazine was initially printed offset on thick colored paper, eventually shifting to full color lithography. Contributors include artists Asger Jorn, Gruppe SPUR, and Pierre Alechinsky, architect Aldo van Eyck, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, mathematician Walter Eitzmann, musical composer Peter Schat, a.o.
Starting in 1962 there were six issues of The Situationist Times printed before the student uprisings of May '68, leaving a 7th issue compiled but unpublished.
Issues
 The Situationist Times 1, Hengelo (May 1962). PDF (12 mb). |
 The Situationist Times 2, Hengelo (Sep 1962). PDF (14 mb). |
 The Situationist Times 3: "International British Edition", Hengelo (Jan 1963). PDF (16 mb). |
 The Situationist Times 4: "Labyrynth issue", Copenhagen (Oct 1963). PDF (12 mb). |
 The Situationist Times 5: "Rings and Chains", Copenhagen (Dec 1964). PDF (14 mb). |
 The Situationist Times 6: "International Parisian Edition", Paris (Dec 1967). PDF (16 mb). |
The above PDFs were produced by the Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism in 2019. The website contains Jacqueline de Jong's history of the magazine’s creation in a series of video clips. More about the project.
Literature
- Christophe Bourseiller, "An Encyclopedia of Forms: The Situationist Times", in Jacqueline de Jong. Undercover in de kunst/ In Art, eds. Ed Wingen, et al., Ludion: Amsterdam, 2003, pp 137-146.
