Post on 29-Nov-2014
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Dada
Dada1916-1924
disrupting the institution of art
Dynamism of Dog on a Leash |Giacomo Balla, 1912
Nude Descending a Staircase | Marcel Duchamp | 1912
LHOOQ | Marcel Duchamp | 1919
Fountain | Marcel Duchamp | 1917
1960s Media ArtFluxus, the Situationists and the Society
of the Spectacle
George Maciunas
John Cage
Fluxus Manifesto
Yoko Ono, “Cut Piece,” 1964
Yoko Ono, Eyeblink, 1966
(you can see all of these films on UbuWeb – www.ubu.com/film)
The Situationists
– Situationist International magazine, 1957
– informed by Dada and Surrealism
– advocated the suppression of art
– critique of capitalist society and division of producers and consumers
– close to anarchists in disdain for bureaucracy and authoritarian structures
Guy Debord
Guy Debord
– wrote “The Society of the Spectacle” in 1967
– life has been reduced to spectacle
– we exist in a state of alienation
– modern capitalist society is a society of consumption and meaningless drudgery
– capitalist creation of “pseudo-needs”
– solution? Reinvent life!
Key terms:
derive
psychogeography
detournement
dérive
“In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure
activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the
encounters they find there.”
– the flow of acts and encounters
psychogeography
“They look at the city as a special instance of repressed desires.”
detournement
“Ultimately, any sign is susceptible to conversion into something else, even its opposite.”
– re-routing events and images
– An artistic technique in which works of art or mass culture (comics, film, ads, etc.) are reworked or placed in new contexts to subvert their original
meaning.