When looking at the Situationist International, first understanding their position as being book-ended between the split of CIAM, TEAM X and the events of May 1968 is imperative. After reading seemingly countless accounts of their efforts, and overwhelmed or perhaps, underwhelmed, with the explanations of qualifying a ‘select’ urban experience, I finally found the nugget of truth to their inspiration– walking around Paris in the late evening while drunk. Pure Intuition. Finally– the seemingly moving target of their imaginings is explained. However, the only way I was able to digest the thousands of pages of text, I had to, for a moment, take on the character of the ‘derive’–and do a little ‘detournement.’
Working with the original ‘Naked City’ drawing by Guy Debord, I set out to ”detournement’ the drawing, as the SI had ‘graffitied’ the renaissance artworks…
Original
Mod #3 Different colored ‘stamps’…done for visual clarity.
Save for a few moments to organize this SI research in a more detailed way, it is clearly time to move on– and move forward…