Libero Andreotti

Ivan Chetglov

Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain)

This much-needed anthology, the accompanying volume to the exhibition publication Situationism, brings together key texts from this important movement in 20th century architectural theory, art, and politics. The writings included in Theory of the Derive, many published here in English for the first time, are predominantly critical texts, revealing Situationism's aims, focus, breadth of vision, and development. Begun in 1957 by various artists and writers representing avant-garde organizations, the Situationist International was, from its inception, a revolutionary cultural organization. Seeing its project as one of merging art and life in practice, it developed over the next decade, implementing incisive critiques of post-war consumer culture and proposing radical projects of urban utopian design. Against the oppressive, stifling conditions imposed in technocratic city planning, the Situationist International sought to develop new forms of collective action and agitation that would promote free use and transformation of the urban environment. Its tactics, slogans, and visions of an alternative OEnitary urbanism' were especially influential in the events of the May 1968 uprising in France and have since been important influences on radical currents in many countries.

Theory of the Dérive and Other Situationist Writings on the City

Jo Spence

A Retrospective on the work of Jospence. Jo Spence [London, 1934-1992] began her artistic career during the critical re-thinking of modern photography and body art in the mid 70s. This is a wide-ranging selection of Spence's texts with the most significant photographic works of her career.

Beyond the Perfect Image : Photography, Subjectivity, Antagonism

Catherine David

Dias & Riedweg

Mauricio Dias

Walter Riedweg

Since 1993, Maur'cio Dias and Walter Riedweg have been developing a collaborative work that probes the relationship between ethics and aesthetics through precise interventions in specific individual and group situations. Their methods, ranging from scientific documentation to complex video dramatizations, focus especially on issues associated with identity and the tension between group and individual mechanisms. The direct involvement of the public in their work process is crucial. This catalogue contains a retrospective of their works to date, including Voracidad mxima, their joint project for the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The enclosed DVD includes a video fragment from that piece, which explores the relationship between sexuality and economics and was made in cooperation with male sex workers from the museum's neighborhood, El Raval.

Exhibition, Barcelona, Museu D'Art Contemporani, November 20, 2003-February 1, 2004

Betr. u.a. Werke von Paul Klee und Dieter Roth.

Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain)

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