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| In '''detournement''', an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. The term "detournement", borrowed from the French, originated with the ]; a similar term more familiar to English speakers would be "turnabout", although this term is not used in academia and the arts world. | In '''detournement''', an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. The term "detournement", borrowed from the French, originated with the ]; a similar term more familiar to English speakers would be "turnabout", although this term is not used in academia and the arts world. I am editing this page. | ||
| Detournement is similar to ] ], but employs more direct reuse or faithful mimicry of the original works rather than constructing a new work which merely alludes strongly to the original. It may be contrasted with ], in which originally subversive works and ideas are themselves ] by mainstream media. | Detournement is similar to ] ], but employs more direct reuse or faithful mimicry of the original works rather than constructing a new work which merely alludes strongly to the original. It may be contrasted with ], in which originally subversive works and ideas are themselves ] by mainstream media. | ||
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In detournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. The term "detournement", borrowed from the French, originated with the Situationist International; a similar term more familiar to English speakers would be "turnabout", although this term is not used in academia and the arts world. I am editing this page.
Detournement is similar to satirical parody, but employs more direct reuse or faithful mimicry of the original works rather than constructing a new work which merely alludes strongly to the original. It may be contrasted with recuperation, in which originally subversive works and ideas are themselves appropriated by mainstream media.
Detournement's use by Barbara Kruger familiarised many with the technique, and it was extensively and effectively used as part of the early HIV/AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Examples of contemporary detournement include Adbusters' "subvertisements" and other instances of culture jamming, as well as poems composed collaboratively by Marlene Mountain, Paul Conneally, and others, in which quotations from such famous sources as the Ten Commandments and quotations by United States President George W. Bush are combined with haiku-like phrases to produce a larger work intended to subvert the original source.
The Neue Slowenische Kunst has a long history of aggressive detournement of extreme political ideologies, as do several industrial music groups, such as Die Krupps, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM, and Front 242.
References
- Crimp, Douglas. AIDS Demographics. Bay Press, 1990.
See also
External links
- sniggle.net: The Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia
- The Ring of Free Trade - a 5 minute detournement of the Fellowship of the Ring
- The James Connection at World Haiku Review
- The God Connection - a detournement of the Ten Commandments