Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Detlef Siegfried: Das Prinzip Provokation. Kunst und Protest in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren

In the organizer's words:

In a society whose change was not fast enough for some, while overtaxing others, provocation could make the situation dance. The targeted questioning of norms and clichés through political messages and public actions had an enormous impact in the 1960s and 1970s. From the "Situationist International" group of artists, who deliberately wanted to disturb the public, to the "Provos", who stirred up Amsterdam and caused a sensation far beyond the Netherlands, to the well-known "Bremen Style" in the theater and the scandalous actions of Kommune 1, provocation played an important role in the politicized media society. In a climate of confrontation, even opposing lifestyles and contrary political visions were seen as mutually provocative. Artistic interventions such as Klaus Staeck's montages symbolically took these opposites to extremes.

In his lecture on April 20 at 7 pm,Prof. Dr. Detlef Siegfried will shed light on the role of provocation and ask what significance it had for the unusually close connection between art and politics in the 1960s and 1970s.

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