7.1.11

STATE OF FLUX

I'm having a Dadaist day. I might take my Bourgeois television apart and reconstruct it as a giant statement dildo.


While I do that, check out this great cover of the book DADA, first published in 1917 by Tristan Tzara in Zürich (this is the first edition's cover). Isn't it great??

And this is the Fluxus Manifesto (the Fluxus movement spawned from the earlier Dada movement), a visual document written in 1963 by George Maciunas. Also great to look at and well fucking subversive and shit.


And another great cover


And now for a typical example of a Dadaist poem. Because a fairly large aspect of the movement was to deconstruct culture as it was, a lot of murals happened, deliberately merging the lines between mediums, such as with this poem, Karawane, written by leading Dada poet Hugo Ball in 1917.


If you want a translation, don't worry about it; even if you can understand German it would still make no sense, it being a selection of random words with no exterior meaning at all. The meaning, you see, is in its meaninglessness. SICK!

AND HERE HE IS!


Gaga influence, perhaps?


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