The exhibition guide for Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges – which opens this Saturday (26th) at Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery – is in the style of a map, as a riff on the psychogeographic tendencies of the Situationists (maps produced by their figurehead Guy Debord are among our exhibits).
The guide is also consistent with my design for the showcard, which roughly détournes (literally ‘re-routes’) a section of one of Debord’s works.
Of course, the two-sided guide is a much more professionally realised affair, designed by Adrian Hunt. With an excerpt from the writer and critic Fred Vermorel’s essay for the Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges catalogue (which will be published next month), this includes info on the radical figures whose work is included in the exhibition.
The guide also adopts another Situationist stance by recommending that visitors adopt the manner of dériveurs, experiencing the exhibits, sounds and moving images in the form of a drift.
Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Joining the dots between the Situationist International and Malcolm McLaren runs from September 26 to November 14, 2015.
Full details here.
Brian
September 28, 2015 at 5:43 pmLooks great. Any way for me to purchase a hard copy of it? Thanks for sending the other piece btw, I printed it out and covered the border in staples, making a nice bit of wall art for my office, and a successful conversation starter on two occasions so far!
Paul Gorman Author
September 28, 2015 at 5:56 pmHi Brian – they should be available from the gallery direct if you contact info@hansardgallery.org.uk
Best
P