Demain la poésie logera la vie (Tomorrow Life Resides in Poetry), lecture dated Paris, 19 August 1956, written as a lecture to be given at the Primo congresso mondiale degli artisti liberi (First World Congress of Free Artists), organized by Asger Jorn and Pinot Gallizio for Mouvement Internationale pour un Bauhaus Imaginiste contre un Bauhaus Imaginaire (M.I.B.I.), held in Alba (I), 2-8 September 1956.
Dutch title: In poezië zullen wij huizen.
The typed manuscript is in the Constant archive at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD).
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Demain la poésie logera la vie
1956
Het technicisme
1956
This hitherto unpublished text by Constant probably dates from 1956. Thematically it has a strong affinity with ‘Tomorrow Life Will Reside in Poetry’ from the same year.
Kunst en leefruimte
1955
This text has its origin in a declaration of principles for the journal Art et Habitat, which Constant and Stephen Gilbert intended to devote to the ‘synthesis of the arts’ (1953). The journal was never published, however, and Constant revised and developed the text in 1955
Van samenwerking naar absolute eenheid van de plastische kunsten
1955
This text appeared in Forum in 1955 and is part of a widespread debate during the 1950s. In this debate about collaboration among architects and visual artists.
Spatiaal colorisme
1952
Constant and Aldo van Eyck, Amsterdam 1952, 50 editions. With comments from Gerrit Rietveld
Voor een spatiaal colorisme in Forum VIII, nº 10, 1953, p. 361. Republished with title Pour un colorisme spatial in Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale Situationniste 1948-1957, Paris, Allia, 1985, pp. 75-84.
Naar een spatiaal colorisme (Towards a spatial colorism) in Ruimte, two monthly magazine, nº 5, 1954, pp. 42-43.
Schilderijen van critici
1951
Schilderijen van critici (Paintings of critics) in Mandril. Maandblad voor mensen nr. 10 (August 1951).
Cultuur en contra-cultuur
1949
Cultuur en contra-cultuur (Culture and counter-culture) in Reflex: orgaan van de experimentele groep in Holland, nº 2, 1949. Republished with title Culture et contre-culture in Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale Situationniste 1948-1957, Paris, Allia, 1985, pp. 41-43 and pp. 59-61.
C’est notre désir qui fait la révolution
1949
C’est notre désir qui fait la révolution, published in Cobra, organe du front international des artistes expérimentaux d’avant-garde [organ of the International Front of Avant-garde Experimental Artists], 4 November 1949, 3-4.
De conferentie van Parijs
1949
De conferentie van Parijs (The conference of Paris) in Reflex: orgaan van de experimentele groep in Holland, nº 2, 1949. Republished in Documents relatifs à la fondation de l’Internationale Situationniste 1948-1957, Paris, Allia, 1985, pp. 36.