Sakae Osugi, Japanese anarchist

Artist photographers Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber explored Saint-Denis in the footsteps of Japanese anarchist Sakae Osugi. The latter is said to have held a speech in this city on May Day 1923 before being expelled and assassinated a few months later by the military police in Japan. This book is one of the numerous pieces of evidence from the situationist-leaning investigation that is being carried out artists in different metropolises around the world (Osaka, Tokyo, Paris, Chongqing…) grouped under the name of “Dynamic Cartography”. The text that accompanies this book is the fruit of another wandering, that of Marie Tesson, from Saint-Denis to the Pleyel Tower. Thus extending the reflection on what lies beneath the multiple architectural layers of the megacity.