Intuition, automatism, and anti-process
Intuition, automatic writing and divided attention lead me toward an anti-process: art that laughs at its own attempt to destroy meaning.
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Manifestos
A thread through the work.
There is still art to cannibalize
Priestess Lynn surveys the destruction of art. There is still plenty to cannibalize.
Against abstract meaning
Abstract claims of meaning can say nothing. A particular song making someone cry says everything.
Meaninglessness to the masses
Meaninglessness to the masses: an absurdist NFT declaration, complete with a prompt for Animals in Chaos.
Be the change for a change
Dissent is participation—and opposition to conformity does not sit easily beside demands for tighter control of art.
Anti-art opposes the contemporary definition
Anti-art opposes the art world’s contemporary definition. The walls that exclude a medium also give that medium power.
Dissent is participation
Dissent is participation. Dada combines criticism, absurdity and the contemplation of Nothing—and if you have read this far, it is already too late.
The rules of the art world bind the artist
Rules about who earns the title artist can become shackles. Art that escapes those rules can threaten the world they protect.
The work of unlearning the rules
Practicing Dada means unlearning control, order and the assumptions an artist was taught to obey.
How AI art became part of Dada
When AI art was declared offensive non-art, it entered the space Dada has always expanded into.
Fuck art, fuck rules
A public service announcement from Dada and a shadowy political interest that wants to live in your underwear.
There is no my-way-or-the-highway in Dada
There is no my-way-or-the-highway in Dada. Dissent, conversation and even enemies belong in the discussion.
Keep making the art that scares them
Keep making the art that scares them. The existence of the work is already part of what it says.
Turn the world upside down
Playing with words and logic is a beginning. I want to turn the world upside down—and feed the fucking pigeons.
An absurdist does not require agreement
Hearing an absurdist out does not require agreement. Dada leaves plenty of room for disagreement with the art world.
Art and anti-art
Art and anti-art turn each other inside out: matter, rules, truth, reason and the argument that even something is nothing.
Dada beyond the visual arts
Dada reaches beyond visual art into music, spoken word and the things we do not yet know how to name.
The paradox is not a problem
Dada is a century-old art philosophy and something ancient that has always been with us. The paradox is not a problem.
Why Dada, why now?
Why Dada, why now? Because it belongs to the malcontents and outsiders who need a language for challenging the art world.
Dada is everything
Dada is everything: soap, gasoline, cities, friends, a delicious churro. It is also nothing.
AI makes the mundane radical
When tool choices become an act of disobedience, AI makes even the mundane radical.
We are not special
We are not special. We are the people who happen to exist at this very special moment in history.
I reject
I reject art as a commodity and the cynical delusion that “artist” is nothing more than a job description. Art is so much more than that.
An anarchist declaration of artistic identity
An anarchist declaration of artistic identity: the commons, anti-fascism and Dada’s rejection of smugness and gatekeeping.
I want you to steal my art
If my work starts a conversation in your head, I want you to use it. Creative reuse is an honor, not an injury.
We are all nothing
We are all nothing. A short Dada statement about recognition, institutions and the freedom to create.
If you are the keepers of art, fuck art
If you are the keepers of art, fuck art: a refusal of gatekeeping, conformity and harassment in the name of artistic legitimacy.
Confrontational pacifists
Dadaists are confrontational pacifists whose weapons are words, images and ideas. Dada is also trash, soap, a flat tire and life.
Dada is disobedience, not an aesthetic
Dada is disobedience, not an aesthetic. Even its inherited look becomes something to subvert when the art world makes it safe.
Some key points on Dadaism
Some key points on Dadaism: authorship, craft, appropriation, snobbery and the ephemeral status of art.
Dada is a philosophy, not a photo filter
Dada can be a photo filter, but it is not defined by the filter. It is a philosophy that challenges aesthetics, authorship and gatekeeping.
Dada honors no aesthetic
Dada honors no aesthetic. Its criticism reaches commercialism, authorship, morality and the assumption that intent must look one particular way.
A meditation on artists and their epoch
Artists are creatures of their epoch, environments and backgrounds. Each perspective changes the world in some small way.
Surrealism and Dada: two ways of looking
Surrealism looks for the marvelous within. Dada can pull something out of reality and call it art because it bothers someone worth bothering.
Absurdity as a tool for changing the world
Absurdity is a method of social commentary and a tool for changing the world. Dada does not need to stay safely locked in art history.
Dada in another crisis of painting
Another crisis of painting brings the same questions of chance, morality, capitalism and artistic legitimacy back into view.
Replace the art economy
Dada wants to replace the art economy: its product logic, gatekeeping and comfortable relationship with power.
We will change the world with nothing
We will change the world with nothing: a statement of Dada’s rebellion against the art world, consumerism, reason and gatekeeping.
Welcome to the cause
Artists who explore, experiment and challenge the boundaries of art are welcome here. Dada is life.
Dada is not a safe, dead thing
Teaching Dada as a safe, dead movement strips away the challenge it still poses to art, tradition and power.
Dada wants nothing: overthrow reality
Dada wants nothing—and wants to turn reality, reason and your preconceptions inside out.
Another declaration of principles
A declaration of principles about hierarchy, the commons, Dada, punk and the volatile possibilities of AI.
A living document for a new epoch
Reading Berlin as a living document opens a disagreement about AI, power and the artist’s epoch. Both empowerment and oppression can exist in the same technology.
Dada speaks to the current moment
Dada’s arguments about art, technology, skill and the establishment still speak directly to the current moment.
Dada in a nutshell
A compact set of Dada principles: technology, chance, social change, dissent and the contradictions that come with them.
The quantum state of AI and Dada
The way we see AI changes the way we read its relationship to Dada. Technology can be a corporate instrument and a subversive art tool.
Three points on ethics, capitalism, and gatekeeping
Three points on Dada, ethics, capitalism and the gatekeeping of valid art.
Explore new frontiers instead of policing the door
A century of gatekeeping arguments still stands between artists and new creative possibilities. I would rather explore the frontier.