You are invited to drift… Map-style guide to Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges
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).
//Guy Debord’s The Naked City and Psychogeographic Map Of Paris are displayed with a copy of the book Contre le cinéma and positioned with a presentation of Malcolm McLaren’s film Paris Capital Of The XXIst Century//
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.
//Adrian Hunt with his guide design at John Hansard Gallery during the install yesterday//
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.