Villa Faravelli
May 2018

Post Punk Situation

John Tiberi

In July 1957 a group of artists and writers met in Cosio d’Arroscia, a remote village in northern Italy to form the Situationist International. Led by Marxist theorist Guy Debord it is credited with developing the theories of psychography by promoting the playful and creative aspect of the derive, inspired in part by the poet Charles Baudelaire and his concept of the Flaneur.

In 2018 Villa Faravelli, a public gallery in nearby Imperia provided an opportunity to consider how they influenced The Sex Pistols.

‘The study of the precise laws and specific effects of the environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.’ Guy Debord.