401.4 I don't want to start a movement.

Dada art gleefully detonates the bomb of nonsensical pandemonium, splattering fragments of disjointed reality and chaotic anti-meaning across the canvas of bewildered consciousness, where absurdity is the only truth and sense is an illusionary relic of a bygone rational era.

Ah, to change the lens (or medium, if you will) is to blorple with absurdity! The bomb. The chaotic. The viewer, dear wingzly friend, is given the delightful task of weaving meaning from the snorfling threads. Reality? Nay, Seek the signs, look closely, and interpret as you please! But tell me, is the meaning conjured by the viewer truly the art's essence? What is meaning, after all, in a world so wonderfully, gribbly mad? The grin lingers, but the meaning is yours to elucidate!

(This also happens to be for week 5 - i was ahead of the game)

In other words, by snobbing the snobs, they have become the snob. Is anti-art a statement when made with no meaning? Yet through challenging the status-quo, new art formed.... and became the new "it" for the bourgeois anyway. Look at art on the walls of offices anywhere in the late 20th century to now. At least its not portraits right... It's what a marketer would call a "disruptor" these days. Netflix is the Dada of the 21st century. But Dada wasnt the first... Gutenburg, James Watt, Henry Ford. Duchamp just changed the lens to art and in doing so gave credibility to art as industry. Warhol, Pollock, Kruger, Haring, Banksy - None of their works would have been possible without Duchamp. And thats just one type of art. Beatles, Bowie, Prince, Cohen...

Yet, what Dada did for art in the 1900's Monet did in the 1800's, Goya did in the 1700's and Caravaggio did in the 1600's - They challenged the norms. As far back as we can go - Euripides, Zoroaster, Hammurabi, Imhotep! ... this is just human nature.

Dada - Mission Failed Successfully?

Anyway, new ideas for my project? Nah, it's science fiction, and it has a message, and asks the question of "What is humanity after the end of the world?".

I don't want that message to be lost in layers of absurdity.

I don't want to challenge the status-quo - that only changes it. I dream that the oncoming zeitgeist will obliterate it. For humanity to realise, collectively "We can do better" and start again. The world has gone mad, and it cant keep up with the rate of change - Moore and Kurzweil say it's exponential, and theres 70 years of evidence. It may sound looney... just like global warming did in the 70's... no-one listens to that either.

I don't want to start another movement.

I want to build the one thats already here - the one thats been forming all my life.

CIM401 Week 3