Showing posts with label Beauty is in the streets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beauty is in the streets. Show all posts
23.5.11
Johan Kugelberg - Online political activism (For all the Grillinis on Main Street)
D&C: How do you feel about ‘viral activism’ online as successors to the posters in Paris that kept people informed of protests and gathered support?
Johan Kugelberg: Online political activism, I fear, is 60 per cent luxury consumption. They sound like this: ‘Oh boy, that’s a nasty politician, I’m going to go home and write something about them on my blog!’ That is obviously a facsimile. This is Debordian: ‘Everything that was directly lived has receded into representation.’ Nothing on a screen is directly lived. It is a representation. That means that every aspect of political activism becomes defined by the medium that it uses because the medium is ultimately the message. And if the way that you communicate costs £600, requires a socket and software made by corporations using an email system created by a nasty-ass company... well, my friend, beware the Ides of March.
Read more: Kugelberg complete interview
Beauty is in the Streets
Beauty Is In The Streets: A Visual Record Of The May 68 Uprising presents, for the first time, many of the posters created by Parisian group Atelier Populaire (“Popular Workshop”), an autonomous political art movement organised by students of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, alongside photos, manifestos and pamphlets of the time. It tells the story of how millions of French students, workers and citizens took to the streets in 1968 in opposition to Charles de Gaulle’s right-wing government, forcing him to call an election that he ultimately lost.
Read more: text by Huw Nesbitt
From May 1968 to May 2011
In the May issue of Dazed & Confused, we spoke to curator Johan Kugelberg about the legacy and iconic artwork of the Paris student uprisings in May 1968 which became the yardstick by which all youth demonstrations today are judged
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