Lecture about the Scandinavian situationism, and screening of So ein Ding (1961), a film by Jørgen Nash, Albert Mertz and Gruppe Spur.
Sunday 26 April 2009
7pm

This evening’s talk will deal with the two Situationist Movements in Scandinavia focusing on the developments that took place in Odense in 1962 and in 1963 with the exhibitions Seven Rebels and Destruktion af RSG-6 staged by respectively Jørgen Nash / Jens Jørgen Thorsen and J. V. Martin. Mikkel Bolt and Jakob Jakobsen will also address the question of how to engage with the Situationist material today.

The evening will end with the screening of So ein ding muss Ich auch haben (1961), a film by Jørgen Nash, Albert Mertz and Gruppe Spur. This film was made in the urban settings of post-war Munich and has a loosely improvised narrative with various surreal effects. The film was financed by Asger Jorn, who also made the soundtrack together with Jean Dubuffet. In 1967 Jean Luc Godard wanted to use the film as a short film to be shown before the screening of La Chinoise, but as the Situationists did not like Godard and his films, Asger Jorn rejected this offer.

Mikkel Bolt is an art historian with a PhD on the Situationist International and Jakob Jakobsen is an artist and cofounder of Copenhagen Free University together with Henriette Heise. In 2007 Bolt and Jakobsen organised Expect Anything Fear Nothing, a seminar on the Situationist Movement in Scandinavia that was held in Copenhagen.

The talk will be held in English.