monochrom review // Spectacle - Art - Society: Guy Debord and the Situationist International: English language review of our recently published book.
"Spectacle - Art - Society" is the titel of a recently published german reader about Guy Debord and the Situationist International edited by Stephan Grigat, Johannes Grenzfurthner [monochrom] and Günther Friesinger [monochrom]. What is it all about? The Situationist International (SI) was a very small group of international, political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism, Anarchism and the early twentieth century European artistic avant garde. Formed in 1957, the SI was active in Europe through the 1960s and had aspirations for major social and political transformations. In the 1960s the group, split into a few different groups, including the Situationist Bauhaus, the Antinational and 2ns SI. [...]
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
