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Are you ready for International Dadaism month? http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/01/12/dada-month/

Just before Xmas, Mayor Boog Highberger of Lawrence, Kansas announced plans to celebrate International Dadaism Month:

In Dada spirit, Highberger did not select a specific month to celebrate Dada. Instead he’s proclaiming International Dada month as Feb. 4, April 1, March 28, July 15, Aug. 2, Aug. 7, Aug. 16, Aug. 26, Sept. 18, Sept. 22, Oct. 1, Oct. 17 and Oct. 26. Highberger selected the dates by rolling dice and pulling numbers from a hat.




Art is dead, long live DaDa

http://www.rahul.net/dold/clarence/usb-can/im000742-800x600.jpg

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Exactly.

He should have just thrown darts at a calendar while blindfolded.

Are you ready for International Dadaism month? http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/01/12/dada-month/

Kansas, huh? Who'da thunk it. Also, I think being called Boog Highberger is plenty dadaist.

Isn't Dadaism where the one guy ripped a urinal out of a wall and presented it as his artwork in an art exhibition?

Republicans, Dadaists Declare War On Art:


N.C. Senator Jesse Helms and Dadaist Tristan Tzara issue a joint statement.
WASHINGTON, DC--Citing the "proliferation of immoral and offensive material
throughout America's museums and schools," and waving placards emblazoned
with agit-prop fotocollage reading, "diE KUnst ISt tOT, DadA ubEr aLLes"
("Art is dead, dada over all"), a coalition of leading Republican
congressional conservatives and early 20th-century Dadaists declared war on
art in a joint press conference Monday.

"Homosexuals and depraved people of every stripe are receiving federal
monies at taxpayer expense for the worst kind of filth imaginable," said
U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), a longtime NEA critic.

Dadaist Jean Arp agreed. "Dada is, like nature, without meaning. Dada is
for nature and against art," he said.

Added nonsense-poet Hugo Ball, founder of Zurich's famed Cabaret Voltaire:
"...'dada' ('Dada'). Adad Dada Dada Dada." Donning an elaborate, primitivist
painted paper mask, he then engaged reporters in a tragico-absurd dance,
contorting wildly while bellowing inanities.....



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Isn't Dadaism where the one guy ripped a urinal out of a wall and presented it as his artwork in an art exhibition?
Sure is.

Whoah. It has been awhile since both I have felt the primal "must kill" instinct, wanted to laugh, and wanted to get in on the con at the same time.
It's like my brain just locked up.

Why does this come to mind?
http://www.adorinareyes.com/toys_robin.jpg

Whoah. It has been awhile since both I have felt the primal "must kill" instinct, wanted to laugh, and wanted to get in on the con at the same time.
It's like my brain just locked up.
Did you try Rebooting?

DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!
DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!
DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!
DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!
DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!
DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!
DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!
DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA! DADA!


-Mission of Burma

Isn't Dadaism where the one guy ripped a urinal out of a wall and presented it as his artwork in an art exhibition?
http://regressoaofuturo4.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/Marcel%20Duchamp%20-%20Toilet%20ready-made%20-%20Dada-Movement%20-%201917%20-T1.JPG
The piece is called "Fountain" and it's by Marcel Duchamp.

Considering that the conditions that inspired the Dada movement in the first place are still in strong force and perhaps even worse today, a Dadaist month is a great idea. Though the assignment of the month seems a little Eulipian, but that's splitting hairs.

The idea that drove Dadaism is context defining truth, the rise of the ability to print photographs created this notion of 'seeing is believing,' creating a notion that photographs are truth without the acknowledgement that the 'truth' of the photograph was driven by context. This gave rise to the 'colllage' works.

Another contributing factor was the rapid increase of information. Previously it wasn't so uncommon that someone would have read the bulk of material to come out, and almost overnight that became impossible. There became too much information for anyone to process and we hadn't developed a way to deal with that deluge. We never really have, and today have exhasperated the situation.

This is indeed a good time to contemplate the ideas of the Dadaists.
http://www.m-liebscher.de/pages/familie/bilder/Duchamp.JPG
http://fusionanomaly.net/bicyclewheel.jpg

Whoah. It has been awhile since both I have felt the primal "must kill" instinct, wanted to laugh, and wanted to get in on the con at the same time.
It's like my brain just locked up.
Congratulations. You have achieved dada.

I cannot adequately express the beauty and appropriateness of this entire story. As possibly the only actual surrealist/dadaist in this thread, I now officially abort that section of my master plan that involved nuking Kansas. I now believe we can't survive without it.

All hail Boog! (genuflects while offering up plate of mayonaise sandwiches on Wonder bread (dada snack of flat places -- not for eating)).