The Second Situationist International were a small group of

situationist The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...

s (the "Nashists") who broke away from the

Situationist International The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...

(SI).

Jørgen Nash Jørgen Nash (March 16, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was a Danish artist, writer and central proponent of Situationism. Life He was born in Vejrum, Jutland, Denmark, baptized Jørgen Axel Jørgensen, the brother of Asger Jorn. He later changed his ...

identifies the first manifestation of the group as a leaflet signed by himself along with

Jacqueline de Jong Jacqueline de Jong (born 1939) is a Dutch painter, sculptor and graphic artist. She was born in the Dutch town of Hengelo to Jewish parents. Faced with the German invasion, they went into hiding. After an abortive escape attempt to England, her ...

and Ansgar Elde, shortly after the group Seven Rebels was formed at Situationist Bauhau at

Asger Jorn Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest c ...

's farm Drakabygget in southern

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. Before the rupture with the SI, Jorn, who sided with the SI against Nash, emphasised

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, "the transformative morphology of the unique." Howard Slater describes the break between the "Parisian" and the "Scandinavian" tendencies as amounting to "a conflict between a conceptual and an expressionist approach, or, to echo Jorn's two tendencies of situlogy, a conflict between the ludic and the analytical," and quotes the ''Drakabygget Declaration'':

The Franco-Belgian Situationists base themselves on the same principles as
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, Descartes ... action precedes emotion. Emotion is a primary non-reflective intelligence: passionate thought/thinking passion. ... We do not always distinguish between theory and practice. We intend to produce our theories after the event. ... The French work exactly the other way round. They want everything straight before they start and everybody has to line up correctly.

The ''Drakabygget Declaration'' was the founding document of the Second Situationist International, which appeared in the ''Situationist Times'' No. 2, 1962. The declaration was signed by

Jens Jørgen Thorsen Jens Jørgen Thorsen (2 February 1932 Holstebro – 15 November 2000) was a Danish artist, director, and jazz musician whose works sometimes created controversy. Thorsen began his artistic career attending periodically the Royal Danish Acade ...

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Hardy Strid Hardy may refer to: People * Hardy (surname) * Hardy (given name) * Hardy (singer), American singer-songwriter Places Antarctica * Mount Hardy, Enderby Land * Hardy Cove, Greenwich Island * Hardy Rocks, Biscoe Islands Australia * Hardy, Sout ...

, Stefan Larsson, Ansgar Elde,

, and Patrick O'Brien,According to Slater, Patrick O'Brien was a pseudonym for Guy Atkins, author of ''Asger Jorn'' (Methuen London, 1977). following their expulsion from the Situationist International. The contributors to ''

Situationist Antinational The ''Situationist Antinational'' was an American magazine formed in 1974, two years after the disbanding of the ''Situationist International''. Only one issue of the magazine was published. It included a contribution by the American Situationist ...

'' were all associated with the Second Situationist International.

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The Situationists from Drakabygget, The Spiral Labyrinth and The Situationist International
Situationist International

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