Historicisation

“The Most Dangerous Game” was the title of an exhibition in 2018 about the Situationist International and it’s “way to May 68” in Berlin. It was the latest in a long development in the historicisation of the group. Founded in 1957 it is seen by some as the “Last Avantgarde”, an art movement that abandoned art for revolutionary action and served as inspiration if not instigation of the May 1968 events in Paris and elsewhere. This leads to contradictions between mainstream historicisation and attempts at situating it in its real anti-political context and a re-radicalisation of its content.