Summary
Inventory is a group of artists, writers and thinkers formed in 1995 as a collective working in interdisciplinary spaces. These include published text, performance in public spaces, fly-posters pasted on the streets, an ongoing research initiative called Inventory Survey Project and finished artworks in sculpture, photography, collage, photocopy, graffiti, video documentary, sound and pirate radio. Since 1995 they have published an experimental journal, Inventory, in which commentary on popular culture, meditations on urban life and arcane literary and philosophical issues jostle with diverse texts found on the streets and an ongoing glossary of ‘phenomena’. Inventory operates from a global, socialist standpoint expressing goals and attitudes reminiscent of the Situationist International, the urban movement set up by French artist Guy Debord (1931-94) in 1957. Situationism calls for an exploration of the city and suburbs for spaces resistant to the dominant culture in order to generate a radical transformation of ordinary, everyday life… (read more)
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