© Alla kungens hästar
All the King´s Horses: Jacqueline de Jong/A paradise of Letters
25.2 2012
Stockholm
Participants:
Jacqueline de Jong
Frédéric Acquaviva
Beata Berggren
Karl Larsson
Tris Vonna-Michell
Program:
17–19: Exhibition and book release in the Pontus Hultén Study Gallery (level 2).
17.00: Opening of Jacqueline de Jong’s A Small Modification and Dérive of the Pontus Hultén Collection in the Renzo Piano Grotto by Jacqueline de Jong.
Jacqueline de Jong has made a personal selection from the Pontus Hultén donation, adding some of her own paintings and sculptures.
18.00: Presentation of the exhibition and release for the Swedish translation of Michèle Bernstein’s novel All the King’s Horses (OEI Editör, 2012), in the presence of the author.
Michèle Bernstein wrote All the King’s Horses in 1960, as an attempt to compose a best-seller in order to finance the revolutionary struggle of the Situationist movement.
19–23: A Paradise of Letters, in the Studio (level 1).
An evening of readings, film screenings and performances that relate freely to the works and concepts of the Letterist movement. (Organized in collaboration with the Romanian Culture Institute, where the exhibition Isidore Isou: The Hypergraphical Novels, 1950–1984, curated by Frédéric Acquaviva, opens February 23.)
19.00: Performance by Tris Vonna-Michell (in the cinema, level 2).
19.15: Reading by Karl Larsson.
20.00: Frédéric Acquaviva performs three sound and image works.
During the evening, Beata Berggren’s film Kati Sepsei will be screened continuously.
Do not miss this unprecedented evening in the sign of the Situationists and the Letterists.
Admission free. Bar with beer, wine and refreshments!
Surprises, lottery, socializing and dance!
Supported by Allianz Kulturstiftung
Curators: Camilla Carlberg, Ylva Hillström
All the King’s Horses
Alla kungens hästar (All the King’s Horses) 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.
All the King´s Horses: Letterism Today?, 24-25 May 2011
All the King´s Horses: Legacies of the Situationist International, 1-2 December 2010