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reject imposed obligations, expectations and roles.
The built environment is imposed upon us and its creators are intent upon persuading us of its virtue.
To recognize truth is to register the dreadful inadequacy of all we encounter…

SheffieldPatrolGroup [ @sheffpatgrp.bsky.social ]

#détournement #dérive #hyperreality #existentialism #spectacle
October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Consensual reality is a recording, which might be cut into and re-arranged…
To truly participate in life, one must make changes to "reality".

#détournement #dérive #hyperreality #existentialism #spectacle
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"Performance Fiction" — A hyperreal presentation, attempting to alter reality by soliciting recognition of a declared mythopoetic proposition.

#détournement #hyperreality #spectacle
September 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
art is not the means of emancipation,
but the product of emancipatory struggle

#dérive #existentialism
September 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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August 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Statement for the Open Public Hearing, Art Workers’ Coalition

Lee Lozano
April 10, 1969
#dérive #existentialism #revolution
August 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
July 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
interesting…

#dérive
July 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Translation (left column to right column):

Teds (Teddy Boys)
Age: 15-30
Fanatical group of loners, who follow the 1950s rock 'n roll spirit in corresponding fan clubs.
Clothing in the style of 1950s youth: skinny jeans, pointed shoes. Hair in old-time Elvis "duck" curls.
Politically disinterested.
July 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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PRISON CELL

Designed by French anarchist Alphonse Laurenčič in 1938, for Spanish Republicans.

Laurenčič's “psychotechnics” — inspired by Kandinsky, Klee, Buñuel and Dalí — were intended to torture Franco Nationalists.

Laurenčič used green because he felt it would inspire melancholy and sadness…
May 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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