{"product_id":"rare-never-work-ever-situationist-diy-stencil-kit-2003","title":"RARE Never Work Ever Situationist DIY Stencil Kit 2003","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL-13 Rejects and Rarities Department\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSituationist Slogan Never Work Ever DIY Stencil Kit \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ewas the first ever edition made for L-13 back when we were known as \u003cem\u003ethe aquarium.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was concieved and constructed by L-13 founder and Chief Engineer Steve Lowe for \u003cem\u003ethe aquarium's\u003c\/em\u003e inaugural exhibition \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe SI and After: What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Situationist International\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, August 2003. It was a crazy exhibition organised by a \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003edrunken committee of radicals, politico's, artists and people called 'comrade'. The exhibition itself was a ramhackle contemporary collage of thoughts and ideas with photocopied imagery and texts pasted across the walls of the \"gallery\", with a programme of events and talks arranged throughout the exhibition. There were also some very scarce Situationist books on display and related material such as Jamie Reid's Situationist inspired Suburban Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNever Work\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNe travaillez jamais) was considered a Situationist slogan that still lived on from Guy Debord's anti-capitalist polemics and featured heavily in the show. It looks like we might have added the 'Ever'. Lowe's stencil book (his first \"artist book\" since he was at art school) took the slogan and presented it as a series of designs that could be cut out to make stencils, that when sprayed on top of each other made a nonsensical jumble of the letters from the slogan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wirebound book was packed together with 4 cans of spray paint and padded out with shredded Situationist texts. No instructions were included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7 sets were made. None sold during the exhibition - or ever. This is the only set we have and don't know what happened to the rest. They were probably thrown away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery scarce indeed. Only available for sale to a very serious collection. Price on Application. \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBe Realistic - Demand The Impossible!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf anyone has any photographs or ephemera from this exhibition we'd be very interested in seeing it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"STOT21stCplanB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58494074257739,"sku":"NWESISK","price":100000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1021\/9185\/7995\/files\/Never_Work_Ever_Situationist_Stencil_Set1.jpg?v=1789594804","url":"https:\/\/l-13.org\/products\/rare-never-work-ever-situationist-diy-stencil-kit-2003","provider":"L-13","version":"1.0","type":"link"}