Before there were hippies, the Dutch had the Provo movement. A short-lived but inspiring nonviolent anti-authoritarian group, they were responsible for Amsterdam’s “White Plans” and other such rabble-rousing during the mid-1960s.
Currently, the Stedelijk Museum in Aalst, Belgium, is showing From Provo till Now, Art in a Socially Political Context. (The site is in Dutch, click here for an English translation.) According to Free Soil, the exhibit offers
what artists in Flanders have generated – since the Provo movement – towards some radical social ideas and how they had to defence themselves against the censure of the established elite for safeguarding their artistic freedoms.
Those who can’t make it to Aalst should check out this tonight’s Dutch Provo Event at Exit Art in New York City. In conjunction with the amazing Signs of Change exhibit, they’re offering a premiere screening of newly subtitled short films and footage of the 1960s Dutch Provo movement, and the release of Richard Kempton’s Autonomedia book Provo: Amsterdam’s Anarchist Revolt.
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