167 - Suburban Traspondency

"Like everything in life, Dada is useless... Dada is a virgin microbe." - Tistan Tzara

• "With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage."
  — Andrei Codrescu (The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess)
• Lecture: DaDa Alex Caldiero
• The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole - this was the central message of Dada. --Hans Richter 
• Jerome Rothenberg: "That Dada Strain", "A Glass Tube Ecstasy for Hugo Ball", "the Holy Words of Tristan Tzara"
• Interview: inventing Dada; 'Dada means nothing. We want to change the world with nothing.'
  —Richard Huelsenbeck
• Mari Kamuri: "Vitessimo for Augmented Violin"
• Alone Together: "Dada Music (bara no kodoku long)"
• Dada Yow knotcast #13 'Wat is dada is wat?'
• 'Dada is like your hopes: nothing
  like your paradise: nothing
  like your idols: nothing
  like your heroes: nothing
  like your artists: nothing
  like your religions: nothing'
  —Francis Picabia
• Casper & the Cookies: "Duchamp's Camera"
• 'I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.'
  —Marcel Duchamp
• Amiri Baraka: "Black Dada Nihilimus (DJ Spooky mix)"
• Vincent Bergeron: "L'Art du Désarroi"
• Tristan Tzara/Richard Huelsenbeck/Marcel Janco: "L'amiral Cherche", "Une Maison A Louer"
• What we call Dada is a piece of tomfoolery from the void, in which all the lofty questions have become involved . . .' —Hugo Ball: "Karawane"
• Andrew Chrystall & Bob Dobbs: "Nature Imitates Art"
• Tom Hamilton & Bruce Eisenbeil: "dusting off dada"
• Gold Panda: "You"
• Marshall McLuhan: "The advantage of art is orientation in a complex world", "Satellite Ends Nature"
• Toby Lurie: "Dada"
• Ophir Ilzetzki: "(2003) זמן שעובר לא שב"
• Winter Hinterland: "Lindbergh's Metal Birds"

We [Dadaists] are often told that we are incoherent, but into this word people try to put an insult that it is rather hard for me to fathom. Everything is incoherent… There is no logic… The acts of life have no beginning and no end. Everything happens in a completely idiotic way. That is why everything is alike. Simplicity is called Dada. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game… Like everything in life, Dada is useless… Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all of the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions. — Tristan Tzara

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