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  • General

    DADAIST DISGUST - Every product of disgust that is capable of becoming a negation of the family is dada; DADA; acquaintance with all the means hitherto rejected by the sexual prudishness of easy compromise and good manners: DADA; abolition of logic, dance of those who are incapable of creation: DADA; every hierarchy and social equation established for values by our valets: DADA; every object, all objects, feelings and obscurities, every apparition and the precise shock of parallel lines, are means for the battle of: DADA; the abolition of memory: DADA; the abolition of archaeology: DADA the abolition of prophets: DADA; the abolition of the future: DADA; the absolute and indiscutable belief in every god that is an immediate product of spontaneity: DADA; the elegant and unprejudiced leap from on harmony to another sphere; the trajectory of a word, a cry, thrown into the air like an acoustic disc; to respect all individualities in their folly of the moment, whether serious, fearful, timid, ardent, vigorous, decided or enthusiastic; to strip one's church of every useless and unwieldy accessory; to spew out like a luminous cascade any offensive or loving thought, or to cherish it - with the lively satisfaction that it's all precisely the same thing - with the same intensity in the bush, which is free of insects for the blue-blooded, and gilded with the bodies of archangels, with one's soul. Liberty: DADA DADA DADA; - the roar of contorted pains, the interweaving of contraries and all contradictions, freaks and irrelevancies: LIFE.(Tristan Tzara in the 1918 Dada manifesto). À force d'explications ça finira par entrer.

  • Music

    Si Begg, Cassetteboy, Throbbing Gristle, Plaid, the Little Nobody Elektronische Ensemble, Chu Ishikawa, John Cage, Orchestra Of Skin & Bone, Cabaret Voltaire, Kid Koala, DJ Spooky, Scanner, Autechre, Hifana, Luke Vibert, Schlock Tactile, Mr. Scruff, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp ..

  • Movies

    La légende du Grand Verre, Tetsuo, Un chien andalou, Eraserhead, El ángel exterminador, Knight Moves, À bout de souffle, Brazil, The 5, 000 Fingers of Dr. T., The Great Chess Movie, The Case Of Marcel Duchamp, Orphée, and Kenny.

  • Television

    Magic Roundabout, A Country Between The Worlds, Chess Master Minds

  • Books

    Max Stirner's philosophical tract, "The Ego and Its Own", "The Blind Man" magazine, Raymond Roussel's "Impressions d'Afrique", "de-VICE" magazine, Dr. Seuss's "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish", Michael Beyer's essay "Duchamp is Dandy!"

  • Heroes

    Tristan Tzara, John Cage, Thomas Crapper, Man Ray, David Lynch, Ryoji Arai, Terry Gilliam, Dr. Suess, J.L. Mott Iron Works, and the trusty Luis Buñuel surrealist martini. À tout seigneur tout honneur.

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Blurbs

About me:

.. Marcel Duchamp is a French-born American artist whose work and ideas continue to have major-league influence on the development of post-World War II Western art. His sterling advice to modern art collectors helped shape the tastes of the art world, and certainly nobody will ever quite look at a toilet cistern in the same way again. While he's most often associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements, Duchamp's participation in Surrealism was largely behind the scenes, and after being involved in New York Dada, he barely participated in its Parisian version. Literally thousands of books and articles attempt to interpret Duchamp's artwork and philosophy, but in interviews and his writing, Duchamp only adds to the befuddled mystery. The interpretations themselves interest him as creations of their own, and as reflections of the interpreter. A wayward, mischievous and playful guy, Duchamp prods thoughts about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much with words, but with actions such as dubbing a urinal "art" and naming it Fountain, and by "giving up" art to play chess. He in fact produces relatively few artworks, as he quickly moves through the avant-garde rhythms of his time, and on into ruminations about other, more vital possibilities: In chess, a fork is a tactic that uses one piece to attack two or more of the opponent's pieces at the same time, hoping to achieve material gain (by capturing one of the opponent's pieces) because the opponent can only counter one of the two (or more) threats. Amen to that. "I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position." By the way, Dada scoffs at capital letters... atrociously. D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent.

Who I'd like to meet:

Rrose Sélavy, J.F. Brondel, Legall de Kermeur, Tigran Petrosian, John Harrington, Odilon Redon, Brion Gysin, Theo Geisel, Hunter S. Thompson, Pierre Pinoncelli, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Body type: Some extra baggage
  • Ethnicity: Other
  • Zodiac Sign: Leo

Companies

  • Société Anonyme

    • New York City, New York US
    1920 on

  • Puteaux Group

    • Puteaux, FR
    1911 on

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