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Situationist International-Marx Festival 2013 HK

Website http://thecomingsociety.wordpress.com... fb:   / marxismfestivalhk   To Change The World, We Must Change Life: The SI Aren't Who You Think They Are Notorious as they are, it would appear that the embattled legacy of the Situationist International, a tiny group of conspirators who took their leave of the post-Surrealist avantgarde to take up a place on the very furthest fringes of the insurrectionary Left in Paris, needs to be retrieved and re-connected to the history of proletarian struggle if it is to be rescued from its relegation to the ghetto of 'street art' and 'culture jamming'. This is not, of course, to say that the SI left the countercultural phantasies of their bohemian youth behind for the solemn sobriety of the 'revolutionary militant'. For the SI, art was not a frivolous diversion to be taken up after the revolution, nor was it an adjunct or supplement to revolutionary struggle. Rather, the SI- like Dada and the Surrealists before them- devoted all of their energies to exploring the nexus between art and revolution, between poetics and embodied, experimental praxis. Like the practice that they advocated, all of their reflections were provisional, tentative and SITUATIONAL, tied to explosions of proletarian revolt that were surfacing all around them. These revolts burst the straitjackets of left-wing orthodoxy and pointed the way towards a comprehensive, qualitative transformation of everyday life. It was through their immersion in these currents and their patient attempts to elaborate an understanding of them, rather than derive it from conventional doxa, that the SI developed perhaps the most devastating critique of representation that there has ever been. This talk will attempt to situate the Situationist International in the midst of troubled debates on the relationship between art and insurrection, so as to examine the ways in which, as Andre Breton dreamed so long ago, the imperatives that Marx ('change the world') and Rimbaud ('change life') issued to the children of modernity can be thought of as being one and the same thing.