An introduction to Situationist International, as well as its ramifications in contemporary culture. Véronique also presents a comprehensive history of the rue St Denis, from 400 A.D. until today.

1. the situationist city presentation by V éronique Vienne

2. “… on the passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time.”

4. Asger Jorn and Guy Debord, 1957 L’INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONNISTE (IS)

5. KEY SITUATIONIST CONCEPTS 1- Create “situations” that subvert the complacency of consumers 2- Use “disorientation” to access out-of-the-box thinking (“urban drift” as a technique to connect with the city) 3- Appropriate existing advertisements by co-opting their messages (“adbusting” to debunk hypocrisy) 4- Avoid “spectacular” behavior

6. The spectacle. What spectacle?

8. Cassandre

9. Cassandre by Andr é Kertez

10. Atelier Loupot

11. … when life itself becomes “the” spectacle

19. 1942 -----------> 1952

28. “ Boredom is form of political oppression .” Guy Debord

30. Advertising messages are occupying the public sphere

41. Two opposing points of views: spectacular vs. non-spectacular

42. Situationist tactic no 1: THE DRIFT (La d érive) a.k.a Psychogeography The drift is a technique for wandering around aimelessly in order to subvert the patriarchal order of the traditional time-space

43. Subverting the map

44. Lettrist exercises: subverting the integrity of the page

45. Exercises in graphic “disorientation” (Asger Jorn et Guy Debord)

47. Disorientation map

48. Psychog é ography/Situationist maps

52. lust.nl

54. Worldmapper

55. lust.nl

56. Christian Nold

57. Andreas Nicolas Fisher

58. Johnathan Harris

59. Situationist tactic no 2: REROUTING IMAGES also called DETOURNEMENT One of the most popular techniques to subvert the « spectacle »

61. Seattle 1999

62. Abu Ghraib 2006

63. Adbusters magazine

65. Adbusters “Buy Nothing” campaign

67. Reappropriation of “d étournement” by designers and advertising agencies

73. Mai 1968 Situationist slogan: “ shop more, live less”

74. Malte Martin

75. Les graphiquants

76. Situationist tactic no 3: « CONVIVIAL UPRISING » Building barricades against boredom

77. Under the cobblestones, the beach

83. Paris Mai 1968

87. Grapus: Pierre Bernard

88. The Punk Mouvement /Jamie Reid

89. Subverting the walls

90. Let the walls speak!

95. Barbara Kruger

96. New York: East Village

97. Paris today: rue Denoyer

98. Paris: rue Ramponeau

100. In the subversive tradition: up againt the walls

101. Berlin 1988

102. Berlin Wall 2003

104. Ernest Pignon Ernest

105. Ernest Pignon Ernest

106. West Bank Wall Banksy

107. Banksy

108. Banksy

109. Sao Paulo: Alexander Orion

114. Situationist “in situ” events today

115. Malte Martin

116. Malte Martin

117. Malte Martin

118. Malte Martin

119. Paris Nuits blanches

126. JR in the favelas Situationist Drift: Reinventing urban space

128. situationist exercise

131. The north-south axis

132. Example of a Cardo Maximus: Apamea, Syria

133. Other examples: Reims and J é rusalem

134. Broadway splits Manhattan in halves

137. An overland route during the Bronze Age, it was used to transport tin from England to Greece. To avoid crossing large bodies of water, it followed the watershed line across Europe. (tin and copper were essential to manufacture bronze.) The Tin Road from Cornwall to Corinth

139. The US Continental Divide

141. Scott McCloud

143. The gutter between the pages

144. the gutter is a fold with an erotic dimension…

145. the cardo maximus of Paris: rue Saint Denis

146. Paris cardo maximus

149. the cardo extended into the countryside through the “Lendit”

150. the street used to be a country road

153. the Saint Denis street is a narrow canyon that splits the city in halves.

154. Claude Monet

155. … It’s really a “gutter”, where, for centuries, prostitutes have offered their services to pilgrims and tourists.

157. Passage du Grand Cerf… Passage du Caire… Passage du Prado It is a street of secret passages

158. South of the arch: the street with its fancy courtyards North of the arch: the country road with its back alleys

159. Rue Saint Denis crosses the plain north of Paris: it is a mythological path through the Lendit, a celtic “ground z éro”

162. the “monjoies” were mysterious monuments.

165. Bronze was used for weapons, tools, statues and coins.

167. The Lendit fairground

177. The Stade de France, at the very center of the Lendit plain, is also the center of of the Ile- de-France

178. Porte Saint Denis in Manhattan?

180. The Manhattan Bridge Architectes: Carrere & Hastings, 1916