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boo_radley — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:16:51 -0800

Karl Waldmann's Collages

OmieWise — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:26:05 -0800

The Karl Waldmann Museum, where you can see all of his collages.

"I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist."

Damn That Television — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:18:03 -0800

Somewhere between dada and surrealist, Marcel Duchamp revolutionized art with his "readymades," a term for found objects taken directly from society. Except, maybe they weren't. Rhonda Roland Shearer (widow of Harvard paleontologist and natural selection spokesperson Stephen Jay Gould) makes a convincing argument that Duchamp's readymades were anything but.

The Man Who Pissed Off Hitler

CheeseDigestsAll — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:11:11 -0800

Artist John Heartfield was one of those who recognized the threat of Nazism early on. Remarkably, he created his anti-fascist art inside Germany, until 1933 when Hitler came to power. He continued to pointedly satirize the Reich (and those who made it possible, as his bitter image of the League of Nations illustrates) from exile in Czechoslovakia. The nature of his work makes it very clear that Hitler's goals and intentions were obvious well before the war. (via)

Jolifanto Bambla O Falli Bambla!

jonp72 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:53:55 -0800

In 1916, Hugo Ball would fulfill his own dadaist manifesto by reciting his own nonsense poetry at the Cabaret Voltaire (not that Cabaret Voltaire), while wearing a Cubist costume or a cylinder with the number 13 covering his face. Ball's poem, Gadji Beri Bimba, inspired the Talking Heads song, I Zimbra, but his most famous poem is Karawane, a pioneering example of sound poetry. Karawane has more conventional avant-garde versions on YouTube, but none is more surreal than the recitation from memory by Marie Osmond (yes, that Marie Osmond) from a 1980s broadcast of Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

Bid two Sluggos

klangklangston — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:24:16 -0800

5 Card Nancy A neo-Dada game invented by Scott McCloud, in the tradition of the Exquisite Corpse. It works by emphasizing the tendency to draw connections between juxtaposed frames, to impose meaning where none exists. Play the solitaire version here.

Fun for kids!

cjorgensen — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:08:39 -0800

'the plausible impossibility of death in the mind of cartoon characters' via Limited Edition Prints available. My favorite. Sort of Dexter meets Harvey Birdman

Vormittagsspuk

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:18:08 -0800

Flying derbys! Revolving revolvers! Ladders to nowhere! It's Hans Richter's wonderful Vormittagsspuk (or, Ghosts Before Breakfast), certainly one of the most playful and entertaining of all the Dada film experiments of the 1920s. Presented here with a nicely done soundtrack by Donald Sosin. . Over at UbuWeb, you can see Vormittagsspuk with another soundtrack. Don't know where this soundtrack is from, and for me, it's not as much fun as the Donald Sosin soundtrack, but I thought I should include it here anyway. Also, I happened upon this curious bit of film/music oddness, and this seems like a good place to link to it: "Psychedelic 1930s BING CROSBY video". Be sure to read the YouTube poster's description of the clip. Very unexpected little piece of film art there, and really quite lovely.

This is an Andy Rooney post. That would be an Andy Rooney post worth celebrating.

hellbient — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:27:09 -0800

The Andy Rooney Game. Here’s how you play: take out everything but the first sentence and the last sentence from Andy Rooney’s latest segment on 60 Minutes. Then you put that on youtube. That’s it! Check it out:

Fafblog's back baby! Have some pie!

JHarris — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:58:16 -0800

After nearly 21 months of hiatus, whimsical politics blog Fafblog is back! And it's redesigned, too! Right now I would ordinarily include a link to best posts of the past, but I would have to include all of them.

20th Century Avant-Garde

Kattullus — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:13:58 -0800

20th Century Avant-Garde is a great resource guide to experimental art from 1900 onwards. Special sections for dada, the situationists and fluxus. You can also browse by categories such as artists, film and video art, movements in art, publishers and many more. If you're interested in experimental art of the 20th Century you can get lost in this site for hours.

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp

Burhanistan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:22:04 -0800

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp - an animated timeline of the artist's life and works.

Poems and Drawings of the Girl Born Without A Mother

mediareport — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:20:20 -0800

Fan of Caresses/Supreme Discharged Toilette Ron Padgett's 1968 translations of the 18 drawing-poems from Francis Picabia's poetry collection Poèmes et dessins de la fille née sans mère, from the latest issue of onedit. Much more Picabia inside. [via this from Ron Silliman]

La idea inicia su proceso de superación del objeto y establece una descontextualización Dadá.

amberglow — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:21:32 -0800

Chema Madoz -- photos

Smokey Stover

JHarris — Fri, 18 May 2007 10:28:57 -0800

Foo! Notary sojac! 1506 nix nix!

PSST! Pass It On…

ijoshua — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:37:49 -0800

PSST! Pass It On…

Mummenschanz on the Muppets

drezdn — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:31:25 -0800

Mummenschanz on the Muppets Footage of swiss mime troop, Mummenschanz... [2, 3, 4]

The pataphysical world of Fred Lane.

sleepy pete — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:51:02 -0800

I talk to my haircut. The Rev. Dr. Fred Lane was a dada jazzbo as part of the Raudelunas scene in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the 70s and 80s. His real name is T. R. Reed, and he's a creator of wonderful whirligigs. There's also a documentary in the works (careful of your eyes on that page).

"There has never really been any modernity, never any real progress, never any assured liberation."

Blazecock Pileon — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:46:18 -0800

Meditations on: the poetic and profane; on silence; death; catastrophe; Cage — and yet more strangeness and beauty from David Ralph Lichtensteiger's travels within the world of 20th C. avant garde music and postmodernism.

Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris

anotherpanacea — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:05:28 -0800

In less than a month the cabaret, which at first had welcomed all modern tendencies in the arts and hoped to entertain and educate the customer, had turned into a theater of the absurd. That was the intention. "What we are celebrating," Ball wrote in his diary, "is both buffoonery and a requiem mass."The scandal spread. Lenin, who played chess with Tzara, wanted to know what Dada was all about. (Previously 1, 2, 3)

Nashville Singer's Career Immortalized by Blind Man's Penis

jonp72 — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:25:12 -0800

Ramsey Kearney was a teenage country music prodigy nicknamed the Dixie Farmboy, a rockabilly singer with the Jimmie Martin Combo, a songwriter for Brenda Lee, and a producer of the most cloying Elvis tribute single ever recorded. Kearney would have almost no connection to alternative music whatsoever until John Trubee, a notorious crank phone caller and sideman for Zoogz Rift, found an ad in the back of the Midnight Globe tabloid from Kearney's Nashco Records label, a song-poem company offering to put his words to music for a small fee. Trubee sent his own disturbing LSD-fueled lyrics to Nashco, but to his surprise, Nashco accepted the lyrics after taking a $79.95 fee from Trubee. Kearney tweaked the lyrics slightly in order to avoid a lawsuit from Stevie Wonder, but the end product was the cult classic novelty song, Blind Man's Penis. (more inside)

Choosing a Web 2.0 Start Up Name

Funmonkey1 — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:13:42 -0800

DADA Hits the MOMA. DaDaism was an art movement that arose prior to the rubble of WW1 where the artists led a creative revolution that shaped the course of modern art by combining different mediums to create a message of protest and hope. The MOMA exhibit tells one story (scroll to data and select full program - req flash 7) and the New Yorker reaffirms the influence on art today. However, the real story is with Richard Huelsenbeck, the ring leader and founder of the DaDa movement An interview with him from December 1960 (45 mins mp3) explains the start - as one of the few German artists in protest to the war. My favourite part is where he tells of picking out the name DaDa from an encyclopedia at a cabaret.

No, I'm not sure how they get it to not devolve into a wall of feedback... though that'd be pretty rad too.

Rev. Syung Myung Me — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:05:19 -0800

A Piano In A Gallery. David Cunningham (the guy behind The Flying Lizards! Wikipedia because the main at-least-quasi-official site's down, but while you wait 16 days for that, why not read this interview with Deborah Lizard for your FL Fix) and his new project... A Piano In A Gallery. No, he's not actually PLAYING the piano -- the visitors are. It's a sort of similar thing to both Brian Eno's gallery work with ambient tape loops on different time cycles, creating an ever-shifting collage of sound and David Byrne's recent Playing The Building. The room is mic'd, and the sound is run through a piano, and amplified, both bringing background noises to the foreground AND creating feedback-style loops, as those sounds are also run into the mics and so forth. So... if you happen to be in London.... [via WFMU]

"Art's only sane option, in its impotence, was to go nuts too."

grapefruitmoon — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:48:12 -0800

When Artists Took Over the Asylum [NYT]: A 450 piece Dada exhibit opens Sunday at MoMA in New York. The collection features works from such Dada greats as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jean "Hans" Arp, Hannah Höch, and Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven.

Black Monk Time

MetaMonkey — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:44:39 -0800

The Monks
Formed in the early '60s by American G.I.s stationed in Germany. After their discharge, the group settled in Germany to concentrate on finding a unique sound, and soon began to shave their hair into Monk's tonsures and appear in cassocks. One of the truely original bands of the 60's, The Monks are now often refered to as 'proto-punk'. The Monks experimented fervently, developing a unqiue sound, with heavy bass, repetitive but amelodic rhythms, nursery rhyme style, yet powerful vocals and a good helping of feedback. They recorded only one albumn, Black Monk Time, until their 1999 reunion.
Hear some tracks from the albumn (in realmedia), See and hear The Monks Live in Germany, Also, check out Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback, a documentary (with trailer, though there seems to be something wrong with it). [Trivia: the song I Hate You can be heard in the background in one scene in the bowling alley in The Big Lebowski]