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Advice, appeals, predictions, proposals, refusals, threats

Refusals




Asger Jorn: "L'Avant-garde se rend pas"
1962

   

Barbara Kruger: Untitled
("We don't need another hero"),
1987



Appeals

DÉPASSEMENT
DE L'ART

RÉALISATION DE
LA PHILOSOPHIE

Guy Debord: Directives, 1963 (Oil on canvas)

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Guy Debord:
"Abolition du Travail Aliéné", 1963
(Text on 1959 "industrial painting"
by Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio)

Ben Vautier: "Liberta per tutti"


       

Ben Vautier: "Pas d'art sans vérité"
Reference

Robert Ohrt: Phantom Avantgarde. Eine Geschichte der Situationistischen Internationale und der Modernen Kunst.
Hamburg: Lutz Schulenburg, 1990 (pp. 266/270/329).


Proposal






Ben Vautier

"Let's fuck"

1979




   



Threats




Barbara Kruger: Untitled
("We will undo you") – 1982 
  


Ben Vautier: "Les temps sont venus" – 1999



     



Predictions




      


Ben Vautier: "Le marché de l'art
s'écroule demain à 18h30" – 1990

    


Jenny Holzer: "The beginning of the war
will be secret" – 2004



Advice



     


Jenny Holzer: "Use what is dominant in a
culture to change it quickly" – 1991


Jenny Holzer: "It is in your self-interest to
find a way to be very tender" – 1993/1994