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Le Mur is a contemporary urban art spot in rue Oberkampf (11eme arrondissement) in Paris, France.
It is the initial spot of the street art movement in Paris in April 2000. Le Mur was at this time an advertising billboard was firstly hijacked by artist Hephaestus in spring 2000. [1]
In 2007 it became an officially sanctioned street exhibition space. [2]
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The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.
Guy Louis Debord was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI). He was also briefly a member of Socialisme ou Barbarie.
The Letterist International (LI) was a Paris-based collective of radical artists and cultural theorists between 1952 and 1957. It was created by Guy Debord as a schism from Isidore Isou's Letterist group. The group went on to join others in forming the Situationist International, taking some key techniques and ideas with it.
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Isidore Isou, born Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist who lived in the 20th century. He was the founder of Lettrism, an art and literary movement which owed inspiration to Dada and Surrealism.
Édouard Jaguer was a French poet and art critic linked with the surrealist movement including Maurice Blanchard, Laurence Iché, Régine Raufast, Robert Rius and Tita.
Michèle Bernstein is a French novelist and critic, most often remembered as a member of the Situationist International from its foundation in 1957 until 1967, and as the first wife of its most prominent member, Guy Debord.
Jean Lescure was a French poet.
Pierre Mac Orlan, sometimes written MacOrlan, was a French novelist and songwriter.
Gustave Massiah, or Gus, is a French economist, urbanist, and political analyst. He was a professor of urbanism at the French Ecole spéciale d'architecture in Paris, as well as the head of the CRID.
One of the first times in which Jean-Paul Sartre discussed the concept of situation was in his 1943 Being and Nothingness, where he famously said that
there is freedom only in a situation, and there is a situation only through freedom... There can be a free for-itself only as engaged in a resisting world. Outside of this engagement the notions of freedom, of determination, of necessity lose all meaning
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Speedy Graphito, or Olivier Rizzo, is a French painter who was born in Paris in 1961. He is one of the pioneers of the French Street Art movement alongside others like Jérôme Mesnager, Miss Tic and Blek le Rat. By imposing a powerful, innovative style in the early 1980s, Speedy influenced a generation of urban artists. Though his work has evolved considerably over the past few decades, he has become known and revered for his exploration of commercialism and references to pop culture images and icons.
Fabien Danesi, a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History, is a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens. Former resident of the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome in 2007–2008, he previously taught at the François Rabelais University of Tours, Paris 13 University, Pantheon-Sorbonne University and the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University. Member of AICA-France, he regularly collaborates with the Pavilion Neuflize OBC, laboratory creation which annually hosts ten young artists and curators recruited after an international competition from over 300 applications of the Palais de Tokyo.
Laurent Gervereau is a French artist, novelist, philosopher and filmmaker. The founder of the discipline of Visual History, he has devoted his professional life to the world of images, as well as to the direction of cultural and international institutions.
Laure Murat is a French historian and writer.
Patricia Reznikov is a Franco-American writer.
Gilles Tordjman is a French musicologist, journalist and literary critic.
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