{"id":423,"date":"2011-01-18T22:36:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roddickinson.net\/gow\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-10-28T02:21:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T02:21:41","slug":"class-wargames-at-the-icia-exhibition-events-in-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Class Wargames at the ICIA: Exhibition &#038; Events in Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Class Wargames presents Guy Debord\u2019s <em>The Game of War<\/em><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Wednesday 19th January &#8211; Saturday 26th February, Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm<\/li>\n<li>ICIA Art Space 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/icia\/img\/IMG11s\/class-wargames-sculpture-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"Class Wargames\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guy Debord is celebrated as chief strategist of the revolutionary group Situationist International. His book, <em>The Society of the Spectacle<\/em> is a searing critique of the media-saturated society of consumer  capitalism. After the May 1968 Revolution, Debord and his partner, Alice  Becker-Ho, quit Paris and went to live in a remote French village.  Debord devoted the remaining two decades of his life to his project: <em>The Game of War<\/em>.  For him it wasn&#8217;t just a game, but a guide to how people should live  their lives within Fordist society. By playing, revolutionary activists  could learn how to fight and win against the oppressors of spectacular  society.<\/p>\n<p>Class Wargames is a collective of artists, academics and activists.  Their multi-media exhibition includes a film treatise on revolutionary  strategy in the cybernetic age inspired by Debord\u2019s cut and paste  movie-making techniques.<\/p>\n<p>With their participatory performances of <em>The Game of War<\/em>,  Class Wargames investigate gaming as a metaphor for social relations  under repressive neo-liberalism and claim they are \u2018training the  militants of the cybernetic communist revolution to come\u2019.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Exhibition Reception &amp; Associated Events<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Exhibition Reception<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday 9th February, 6.30pm, ICIA Art Space 2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/icia\/events\/?page=event&amp;art_form=Exhibitions&amp;event_id=435\">Artists\u2019 Talk and <em>The Game of War<\/em><br \/>\nParticipatory Performance<\/a><br \/>\nWednesday 9th February, 7-9pm, ICIA Art Space 2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/icia\/events\/?page=event&amp;art_form=Exhibitions&amp;event_id=436\">Participatory Re-performance<br \/>\nof HG Wells\u2019 <em>Little Wars<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nSaturday 26th February, 1.30-5pm, Claverton Down Community Hall<\/p>\n<p>Exhibition Opening: Monday-Saturday, 10am-5pm<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/?page_id=2270\"><strong>Photos of the exhibition and <em>The Game of War<\/em><\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/?page_id=2389\"><em>Little Wars<\/em> performances<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class Wargames presents Guy Debord\u2019s The Game of War Wednesday 19th January &#8211; Saturday 26th February, Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm ICIA Art Space 2 Guy Debord is celebrated as chief strategist of the revolutionary group Situationist International. His book, The Society of the Spectacle is a searing critique of the media-saturated society of consumer capitalism. After the May 1968 Revolution, Debord and his partner, Alice Becker-Ho, quit Paris and went to live&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,19,3,129,5,127,14,20,17,21,128,16],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-alex-veness","tag-bath","tag-class-wargames","tag-fabian-tompsett","tag-game-of-war","tag-guy-debord","tag-h-g-wells","tag-icia-institute-of-contemporary-interactive-art","tag-ilze-black","tag-little-wars","tag-richard-barbrook","tag-rod-dickinson"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classwargames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}