McKenzie Wark on the Situationist International

Tuesday 8 June 2021, 6.30pm - 7.30pm
Online - registration required
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Photo credit: Mark Blower

 

Tuesday 8 June 2021, 6.30pm

Register for the live event here.

Writer McKenzie Wark responds to artist Samson Kambalu’s use of détournement, a practice of playful appropriation developed by the French avant-garde group the Situationist International and explored in her book The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International (2011). 

This online event will be live captioned, and a full transcript will be available on request after the event. 

This event is happening alongside Samson Kambalu's major solo exhibition at Modern Art Oxford New Liberia. You can find out more about the show here.

This online event will be live captioned, and a full transcript will be available on request after the event. 

This event is presented by Dr Samson Kambalu, Associate Professor of Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art and fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford and current Humanities Knowledge Exchange Fellow at TORCH in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford. You can find out more about Samson Kambalu's Humanities Knowledge Exchange Fellowship at TORCH here.

Image credit: Samson Kambalu, Impossible Country and Keyala Soldier, 2019. Cotton and silk flag, bamboo, black and white photo on board. Courtesy of Kate MacGarry and the artist. Photography by Angus Mill