The ABC's of DADA (2 of 3)

EXCERPTS FROM DADA TEXTS:

I say unto you: there is no beginning and we do not tremble, we are not sentimental. We are a furious Wind, tearing the dirty linen of clouds and prayers, preparing the great spectacle of disaster, fire, decomposition.* We will put an end to mourning and replace tears by sirens screeching from one continent to another. Pavilions of intense joy and widowers with the sadness of poison. Dada is the signboard of abstraction; advertising and business are also elements of poetry.

Science disgusts me as soon as it becomes a speculative system, loses its character of utility-that is so useless but is at least individual. I detest greasy objectivity, and harmony, the science that finds everything in order. Carry on, my children, humanity . . . Science says we are the servants of nature: everything is in order, make love and bash your brains in. Carry on, my children, humanity, kind bourgeois and journalist virgins . . . I am against systems, the most acceptable system is on principle to have none.

The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of an art, but of a disgust. Disgust with the magnificence of philosophers who for 3000 years have been explaining everything to us (what for? ), disgust with the pretensions of these artists-God's-representatives-on-earth, disgust with passion and with real pathological wickedness where it was not worth the bother; disgust with a false form of domination and restriction *en masse*, that accentuates rather than appeases man's instinct of domination, disgust with all the catalogued categories, with the false prophets who are nothing but a front for the interests of money, pride, disease, disgust with the lieutenants of a mercantile art made to order according to a few infantile laws, disgust with the divorce of good and evil, the beautiful and the ugly (for why is it more estimable to be red rather than green, to the left rather than the right, to be large or small?). Disgust finally with the Jesuitical dialectic which can explain everything and fill people's minds with oblique and obtuse ideas without any physiological basis or ethnic roots, all this by means of blinding artifice and ignoble charlatans promises.

As Dada marches it continuously destroys, not in extension but in itself. From all these disgusts, may I add, it draws no conclusion, no pride, no benefit. It has even stopped combating anything, in the realization that it's no use, that all this doesn't matter. What interests a Dadaist is his own mode of life. But here we approach the great secret.

Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family is Dada;
a protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action: Dada;
knowledge of all the means rejected up until now by the shamefaced sex of comfortable compromise and good manners: Dada;
abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: Dada;
of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: Dada;
every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada;
abolition of memory: Dada;
abolition of archaeology: Dada;
abolition of prophets: Dada;
abolition of the future: Dada;
absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity: Dada.

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• Dada
• Anarchy
• Anarchist
• Situationist
• Art
• Politics

[Zopilote]

No, its not. You know nothing about dada. This documentary is anti-dadaist!

[OttOmOlOtOv]

Fine, informs us! What is DADA then? How does it relate to the Artistic and Political history of the world? And most importantly, what can we in the 21st Century hope to gain from the knowledge gained by the DaDaists?

[OttOmOlOtOv]

DADA is Political!!!!!!!!!!

[Tedsuzan]

"We wanted to change the world without any particular idea"...sounds like a plan!

[yadsik]

pikaikai jikaikai garfunbang. willow swallowed by a satire. ya hur liping with a garot vagina soup.

[nervsykins]

I believe in the unemployment part.

[scooch2010]

consider the lamp, 

[gtsvideodotcom]

This type of cage rattling has always been around. What was crazily different was the non-virtual, non-PC social environment of the time. The reaction to these guys' performances was often a fist fight.

[EATshitanddrinkbleac]

@EATshitanddrinkbleac

In my opinion, the answer to this question/my plan of attack is to avoid some of the madness of regular flavor Dada (when starting, lose sanity and emotional control later) by mass-presenting thousands of intentionally kitsch works at the same time, in many locations around the world (copyright me 2011, dont steal)

[EATshitanddrinkbleac]

The art world, along with the real world, is in need of the destructive force of Dada once again. However, traditional Dada (as seen in the video) will not phase either of the two worlds. What was once considered destructive/Dada by the art world is now accepted, while the real world ignores the works completely. One must ask the question "How does one destroy that which accepts destruction and affect that which ignores the former?".

[deansusky]

If Dda was against art but later they joined with the surrealist ,,,and surrealist ,,spoke in art ,,,,May be in the beginning ,,the movement was great but as years went by ,,capitalism ,,won over ,,and they did things for money ,,may be

[TheKepos]

@Zopilote You haven't a clue.

[ourbleakhouse]

In case anyone wants to cite this for a paper, it was originally called: The Alphabet of German Dadaism. Directed by Helmut Herbst. Animation by Franz Winzensten. 1968.

[PhildeKilla]

anthropafa? haha xD