Discourse with an American Dadaist - Part 6
“I think too much, I worry me to death…”
I bet a lot of people said Sartre and Proust thought too much, but not to their faces! And I try to avoid any swine before whom I might toss my pearls.
Yes, I have been in the legal biz. The logical thought process of litigation is a wonderful balance to a mind that tends to wander. Law at its best is like Star Trek’s three dimensional chess and there are no right answers: both sides must be understood to create a persuasive argument.
It is a revolutionary time. There are new thinkers beating their drums for a new philosophy, and where there are thinkers there is Art. The Unions, The Communists, The Fascists, Che, Mao… one of Hitler’s top priorities was a systemized purging and/or preserving Art. (I digress – how unusual!)
Whatever. At present, technological change is driving Art as mass culture, as business and in business. Preservation in a revolution means getting new thoughts across, and what better way than Art. Dada, existentialism, surrealism, cubism…this was also a time of change and new ideologies.
California is the Original Plastic Fantastic; America, born in Revolt, is falling behind the pack. What better place and time to be DADA? If only to preserve one’s sanity!
Even you, brother Andy, show a rather revolutionary – yea, onto DADA, I say – whimsical approach to commercialism.
After much Thinking, “American Dadaist” sounds very fine, indeed. A bit raw, like the State of my birth, but after all, I am only a Dilettante.
yrs. in A-DADA
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jomash
Dada, dadaism, goo goo , ma ma , sorry all i remember from college, war ? rebel ? I am inspired by those cut and paste boys, I actually did it in the early 90’s as a living ! Now I have to read a book to create. Well I cant be bothered actually.
mmargot replied
The beauty of cutting and pasting (literally!) is that you don’t need to be plugged in and it’s cheap! And the computer can’t delete your last draft…
speak to articulation about Dada…I am still in the dark…
articulation
I live in the dark and strive on it …[ sigened ] : dADaissimonster-in-the-dark
P.S. : The beauty of cutting is that you dont need to past.
>XO!OX<
mmargot replied
heh heh…helpful as always!
Dark is good for the complexion but may require vitamins, D. The open door is very inviting.
articulation
Vitamins DA in canaDA where we just arrived…woking up right now…we might knock at the door any moment…DA…invented open DArk might not be bright, but brilliant…in slow motion [ time to eat something ] = [ brb ]
Andy Mercer
“I am only a Dilettante.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilettante_Society
A noble tradition !
mmargot
The Dilettanti were noble and Noble, but now we see a dilettante as “in earnest about nothing.”
Which sounds a bit like California Dada.
Full Circle. Period. Stop.
articulation
As an observer of The Earnest About Everything’s Mess,
it would be, indeed, an undiluted delight for DADA,
to be for ever, associated with The Real Dilettanti.
To be DADA, is to be born with a buit-in device,
marvellously useful when comes the time
for the Am-I-This-Or-Thats, of this world,
to be delt with>>>one is DADA…well, like one is !
But “dadaïste”, sounds as vulgar as any other
trade really ! Think about it : c’est DADA ! ! ! ! ! !
And , by the way, this kind of circle is never full,
because it is not a circle at all. . .but a SQUARE.
Now, off we go, back to Marcel, Victor & Rrose Sélavy-Duchamp.
And, please remember this : there was very little,
everlasting élastic, DADA SPIRIT in most dadaïstes,
at the time, but a few had it in aboundance.
AhhhhhhhhhhhH ! How unconfusing !
As far as today is concerned,
well, do not worry your good selves, gentle folks :
all that could be seen is pseudo.
DADA once leaved, in California, though.
Of Him, all Californians should be proud.
His name was Frank Vincent Zappa.
Just a password, perhaps, that seems
to have escaped Dear mmARgoT’s
correspondent.
Now, tiptoeing back to The Utility Muffin Research Kittchen.
[ This subtle piece of propagandada,
was brought to you all, courtesy of
Squire le Square, Founder of
The Nonsensical Contraption
Operators Association. ]
P.S.: “California Dada” is a salad, is it not ?