Categorical Impertinence: From the Surrealists to the Situationists
An event organized by the IKW, organized by Jens Kastner in collaboration with Eva Schörkhuber and Andreas Pavlic.
The publication of the German translation of the legendary magazine La Révolution Surréaliste by Textem Verlag provides an opportunity to reflect on the “impertinence” of both the Parisian Surrealists and the Situationists. The 12 Surrealist issues (1924 to 1929) and the 12 issues of L'Internationale Situationniste (1958 to 1969) are essential documents of the French and international desire for freedom, the creation of new passions and ways of life. The magazines were laboratories and melting pots of social and cultural upheaval.
Hanna Mittelstädt (author and publisher, Hamburg) looks at both movements through the lens of publishing and playful political appropriation in the 1970s and attempts to honor them as a reservoir of protest to this day, because the surrealist slogan “Revolution first and forever” is as relevant now as it was then.
Read excerpts from the extensive magazine corpus of the Surrealist Revolution: Hanna Mittelstädt, Eva Schörkhuber, and Nora Sdun (publisher of Textem-Verlag).