Villa Faravelli
May 2018

Post Punk Situation

John Tiberi

‘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.

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 Guy Debord, a Marxist theorist they are credited with developing the theories of psychogeography by promoting the playful and creative aspect of the Theory of the Dérive, inspired in part by the poet Charles Baudelaire and his concept of the ‘flâneur’.

Villa Faravelli, a public gallery in the nearby port of Imperia provided an opportunity to consider how they may have influenced The Sex Pistols.