LIFE ON SIRIUS

How did art escape the deadlock of the Situationists anti-art refusal? Did the relational artists, with their repetitions of Situat ionist slogans and techniques, outline a sustainable, micro-political alternative to Guy Debords dream of surpassing art and realiz ing philosophy? Looking back at some of the Situationists confrontations with the museum, this book traces a path beyond the traged y of negativity and the litany of recuperation. At the center is the concept of play/ originally adopted as the principle of reconci led life, i...[Read more]