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.
Lynn Cole / Writing
Writing
Essays, thoughts, and technical notes.
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.
Learning to let the chaos of creation take over
Learning to let the chaos of creation take over is harder than it sounds for an artist who naturally wants control.
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.
How to Be Untrainable
How to be untrainable: a dozen ways to make art that resists machine mimicry by turning style, texture, symmetry and chaos against the expected result.
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.
My reading of Dada
My reading of Dada treats the manifestos as a unified work: appropriation, dissent, the rejection of gatekeeping and a counterculture made accessible by tool choices.
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.