Fiasco is one of a long line of playful interventions in
the space of the city. Ever since the emergence of the modern
city during the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century,
critics and artists have used urban space as a source of inspiration
and renewal. For them, the density of the crowds, the anonymity
of the individual, and the overwhelming variety of city experience
was both alienating and liberating. Many sought to overturn
the commercial ordering of the city and use it as a site for
play and experimentation.
As one Situationist pamphlet said in 1968: "Under the
paving stones, the beach!"
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above: A record of the wanderings of a group of psychogeographers
in Brooklyn
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