Evolving out of the All the King s Horses series, a multinational project made upof seminars, exhibitions and events following the Situationist International and itsnetwork of related groups to various places in Europe, this new publication by DanielBirnbaum and Kim West looks back at the Situationist confrontations with museumsand its meaning today. Organized jointly with Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Life onSirius traces a path beyond the Situationists negativity, anti-art techniques and slogansto outline a sustainable, micro-political alternative. At its center is the concept of playas a lever of instrumentalization. The Situationists were arguably the last and mostinfluential avant-garde movement of the European postwar era. The SituationistInternational, the hub of the movement that developed several famous concepts andmethods in the 1950s and 1960s aimed at transcending art and tearing down establishedculture continues to be influential on contemporary art and thinking today. - from Amzon