Do-It-Yourself Geopolitics or the World Map Reversed
- By Brian Holmes
Pages 31 to 41
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- HOLMES, Brian,
- Holmes, Brian.
- Holmes, B.
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.031.0031
Cite this article
- Holmes, B.
- Holmes, Brian.
- HOLMES, Brian,
https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.031.0031
Situationist critique has transformed art into a practice of the everyday. Punks have added themselves to that massing of self-organised groups committed to subverting the means of mass communication. In underground circles, video art and sound systems have done the rest. The internet has been able to extend counter-culture across the world. On 18th June 1999 several financial centres, most notably London, were attacked by the multi-coloured masks of Reclaim the Streets and other disparate groups who have multiplied their joyful activities for a couple of years. net.art relays these carnivals through the self-expression of these insurgent multitudes.