Alla kungens hästar 1-2 December

STOCKHOLM

Legacies of the Situationist International

Two evenings of lectures and discussions
December 1st and 2nd at the Moderna Museet
4 pm to 8 pm in The Auditorium and in Pontus Hultén’s Study Gallery
Admission free

Participants

Jacqueline de Jong
Claire Fontaine
Roberto Ohrt
Mikkel Bolt

Alla kungens hästar is a series of events, seminars and exhibitions that will investigate the legacies and the actuality of the Situationist movement, the most influential and, some would claim, the last of the European postwar avantgardes. In the 50s and the 60s, the Situationist International, the movement’s dominant group, developed a number of famous concepts and techniques for transcending art and subverting all established culture. The importance of these concepts and models for contemporary art and thinking cannot be overestimated.

However, attempting to trace the different Situationist concepts and models, we soon realize that they originate from a wide range of places and contexts. The Situationist International was enmeshed in a sprawling network of groups, where events occuring in the peripheries, in excluded or marginalized sections and constellations, were often just as important as those taking place in the ideological center. It is therefore high time to ask: Which histories remain to tell about the Situationist movement? And in what senses does it live on in contemporary artistic, theoretical and political practices?

Alla kungens hästar is a multinational project that will trace the Situationist International and its network of associated sections and groups as they spread out across Europe. It is co-organized by the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and is initiated by Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West.

For more information please contact curator Camilla Carlberg

Arranged with support from Allianz Kulturstiftung.

PROGRAM

 
December 1st
The Auditorium, Moderna Museet
4 pm Jacqueline de Jong and Roberto Ohrt in a conversation about de Jong’s days as a core member of the Situationist International and her work as editor of The Situationist Times.
5.30 pm Claire Fontaine: ’77, the Year That Is Not Commemorated. A lecture about the concept of human strike and some of the dynamics of the Italian movement of ’77.
7-8 pm: Drinks outside the Auditorium


December 2nd
The Auditorium, Moderna Museet
4 pm Mikkel Bolt: Scandinavian Situationisms. On the History of the Scandinavian Situationist Sections.
5.30 pm Roberto Ohrt: The History of the Situationists – How To Write About and How To Show: Some Examples.