Situationism is interested in creating situations where one can fulfill their own desires. This goes back to the text "Society of the Spectacle" written by Guy Deboard, the theory that society's experience is based on false or bias images that disable people from having their a true experience. If you have never kissed a girl before, and you saw it for the first time on TV, you would feel that you have had an experience and now know what to do. This tainted second hand experience is exactly what Situationism is intended to break. Consumerism is at the height of this debate as materialistic wants and advertising create false needs and images, and our desires begin to mirror the false experience.
Situationists would attempt to disrupt the routines of everyday, which were called anti-art, by doing things out of the ordinary or in the 'wrong place' to wake people up and give them a real and first hand experience.
The King Pins use a type of intervention to wake up the clients of a local Starbucks out of their everyday routines. Moving into the cafe from the street, dressed as dorky sporting male Starbucks employees, the four girls in the artist collective, do a dance routine in the middle of the cafe and then leave when the song is over.
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