After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the group’s Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martin’s strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the group’s dissolution in 1972.

This book is the fourth volume in Vincent Meessen’s publication series “Prospectus” and published following the artist’s solo exhibitions at WIELS and Centre Pompidou. The book is structured around the installations that made up these shows, and are placed in parallel with untold histories of the Situationist International, modernity’s last international avant-garde.

As a Weasel Sucks Eggs examines the enigmatic relation of melancholia to an early kind of cannibalism, which psychoanalysis, in particular, stressed. It contains readings of, amongst others, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf.