Empty as lack of meaning: DADA

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

"It's too idiotic to be schizophrenic"

Carl Jung on the Dada productions

"Dada means nothing. It 's just a product of the mouth"
Dada Manifesto, Tristan Tzara, 1918

Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war.

Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality.

Raoul Hausmann - ABCD (Self-portrait) 1923

Dada was not art, it was "anti-art". Everything for which art stood, Dada represented the opposite. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics, the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics.

The Dada's goal was to have no message, because the interpretation of Dada is dependent entirely on the individual.

As Hugo Ball expressed it, "For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in."

A reviewer from the American Art News stated at the time that "Dada philosophy is the sickest, most paralyzing and most destructive thing that has ever originated from the brain of man." Art historians have described Dada as being, in large part, a "reaction to what many of these artists saw as nothing more than an insane spectacle of collective homicide."

Years later, Dada artists described the movement as "a phenomenon bursting forth in the midst of the postwar economic and moral crisis, a savior, a monster, which would lay waste to everything in its path. [It was] a systematic work of destruction and demoralization... In the end it became nothing but an act of sacrilege."

 

 

Cover of Anna Blume, Dichtungen, 1919

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

Meaningful phrases

Love: Love is a camara, full of memories.


Plate: My plate is already too full.


Cage: His mind was caged by depression.


Colorful: A colorful remark.


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gol ya pooch

 

Can this photo remind you a memory?

But had you ever imagine that in another part of the world could be a similar action that is part of a simple but popular game?

Gol  Ya  Pooch?

Means:  Flower   or   Null?

GOL in farsi means flower but here means the object that can be whatever a seed or a piece of waste paper.

As it seems in pictures one player hide Gol in one hand and other should guess that where it should be hidden. Whenever can discover the correct post game turns and Gol should be given to the other.

But it will be more interesting when you are in two team and using different techniques to hide it in front of the eyes of other competitors. In this way you have points if you could guess it sooner. For example if there is eight closed hand and you point directly to the correct hand you can obtain all of eight point in the other hand each hand that will be open you will loose one point and even you guess right you can't catch a good point.

you can try virtual ones on internet like the games that are accessible in below addresses:

http://www.y8.com/games/Where_is_the_Ball

http://www.funtoosh.com/flash_games/game.php?id=10