Guy Debord was born in Paris and led the development of international situationalism in the 1960s. He created the concept of "Spectacle", an attempt to explain the breakdown of public and private sectors in everyday life in Europe's capitalist, and ”Spectacle" is his hypothetical culprit. "Spectacle" provides a far more deceptive means of spreading lies, satisfying the needs of a particular segment of the population to govern humanity. This criticism is inherited from Marx and others' criticism of commodities. Contextualism represented by Guy debord tries to integrate radical art and politics, tries to revive Marx's revolutionary practice in the attitude of avant-garde art and daily life, and criticizes the "landscape society" of capitalism fiercely.
I like Guy debord's concept of "landscape" very much. Even though I was attracted by the rich images he created at the beginning, I added my own ideas in the continuation of Guy debord's painting method. What I depicted was a map centering on UTS blue building. I used InDesign to depict the map in my mind, and the landmarks I chose to depict in detail were considered to be relatively important economic centers in central. UTS main builing, blue building and business building are all places with advanced knowledge, which can be converted into an economic ability through the knowledge learned here. Central station, China town and capital theatre are important economic trading venues. According to Guy Debord, the concept of landscape is brought to an extreme. The landscape he depicts illustrates a profound social change through modern architecture.
The research shows that the red arrows in Guy Debord's landscape represent the previous connection of the urban archipelago, and the scattered territories depict the emotional connection of different places. The arrows on my map are connected by knowledge, culture and history. I chose the same painting Angle as Guy Debord. This bird 's-eye view reflects the space and architecture of the picture, so that the observer can understand the structure of the city more directly.
In combination with the Guy Debord's study and the understanding of self, I think "landscape" is not just looking at our passive, as Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche once said "When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you", we are now in the transformation, the ornamental landscape, landscape at the same time also witnessed the change of human history, it is increasingly defined our perception of life itself, And how we relate to others and society. Landscape is not a collection of images, but through the adjustment of images to express the social relationship between people.
References:
Drawingmatter.org, 2017, Guy Debord, viewed 26 August 2019, <https://www.drawingmatter.org/sets/drawing-week/guy-debord/>.
Harris. J, 2012, ‘Guy Debord predicted our distracted society ’, The Society of the Spectacle offered in 1967 an eerily accurate portrait of our image-saturated, mediated times, viewed 26 August 2019, <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/30/guy-debord-society-spectacle>.
