{"id":53,"date":"2009-05-08T22:03:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=53"},"modified":"2009-05-08T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T22:05:22","slug":"53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2009\/05\/53\/","title":{"rendered":"Distortion-pseudo society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the art group Situationist International, which Jorn along with among others the French theorist Guy Debord had founded a few years before his exhibition in Paris, this process was referred to as<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> d\u00e9tournement<\/span>. In short d\u00e9tournement \u2013 <span style=\"color: #800000;\">which directly translated means distortion<\/span> \u2013 is a kind of <span style=\"color: #800000;\">anti-artistic method<\/span> where the past \u2013 and, indeed,<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> the whole world \u2013 is appropriated, annihilated and scandalized<\/span>. Through this process a way opens out of the<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> meaningless and empty pseudo-society<\/span> that the artists referred to as the Society of the Spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>This notion also contains a <span style=\"color: #800000;\">definite showdown with art as an elevated activity<\/span> in order to see the artistic process as something containing a proletarian revolutionary potential. Guy Debord went as far as to believe that in order to not be swallowed by the meaningless stream of hollow representations of the Society of the Spectacle <span style=\"color: #800000;\">art had to be critical and negating and in the end renounce every kind of visual activity<\/span>. In particular, the last part of it was a cause for different opinions among the members of Situationist International, where for instance Jorn never totally rejected the production of artistic objects. The result was that Jorn was excluded from the group along with a number of other members, and finally the group dissolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the art group Situationist International, which Jorn along with among others the French theorist Guy Debord had founded a few years before his exhibition in Paris, this process was referred to as d\u00e9tournement. In short d\u00e9tournement \u2013 which directly translated means distortion \u2013 is a kind of anti-artistic method where the past \u2013 and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-detournement","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}