quoted 13 lines At 08:15 PM 4/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> At 08:15 PM 4/9/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Above all else, the Dada Movement was a nihilistic one - denying meaning.
> >That is the antithesis of making a statement.
>
> "Don't worry Donny, they're only nihilists."
>
> Of course, isn't a statement saying that there is no statement or
> meaning a
> statement?
>
> Wheee!!!!!
>
> derek
I doubt that any Dadaists would have copped even to that. Those crazy
Dadaists would never have called themselves anything twice (so, okay, they
were nihilists...once :), more likely they would (and they often did) do
something completely nonsensical or accidental (like rolling dice to create
something, ala Kurt Schwitters, or calling the crack in the Large Glass the
final touch, heheh) and then do something completely overwrought with
symbolism, such as, well, the Large Glass. Even calling it Dada is kind of
weird. It's like calling a group of artists that have nothing (and
everything) in common "blaudyblooblee". It's completely meaningless until
it starts to become framed in an historical context. And you'd have to be a
die-hard Hegelian to say that there was a cause (WWI) and effect (Dada), and
they don't exist anymore, do they? Duchamp was practicing whatever
"Dadaist" really means right up until his death (the permanent installation
in the Philadelphia Art Museum installation several months *after* his
death, in fact). At any rate, the work is so lovingly open to multiple
interpretations...that's why art historians love it so much. They'll end up
with more writing about the Dadaists than there is actual Dada work. And
that's really Dada!
And if there are any so-called IDM artists out there creating Dada-like IDM,
my vote would be for the Tigerbeat crew. Well, okay, perhaps they're more
Fluxus, I don't know. Take your pick.
__________________________________________
Christopher Sorg
Multimedia Artist and Instructor
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
http://csorg.cjb.net
csorg@artic.edu
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