1. Dada

2. Dada
1916-1924
disrupting the institution of art

3. Dynamism of Dog on a Leash |Giacomo Balla, 1912

4. Nude Descending a Staircase | Marcel Duchamp | 1912

5. LHOOQ | Marcel Duchamp | 1919

6. Fountain | Marcel Duchamp | 1917

7. 1960s Media Art
Fluxus, the Situationists and the Society of
the Spectacle

8. George Maciunas

9. John Cage

10. Fluxus Manifesto

11. Yoko Ono, “Cut Piece,” 1964

12. Yoko Ono, Eyeblink, 1966

13. (you can see all of these films on UbuWeb – www.ubu.com/film)

14. The Situationists
– Situationist International magazine, 1957
– informed by Dada and Surrealism
– advocated the suppression of art
– critique of capitalist society and division of producers and
consumers
– close to anarchists in disdain for bureaucracy and
authoritarian structures

15. Guy Debord

17. Guy Debord
– wrote “The Society of the Spectacle” in 1967
– life has been reduced to spectacle
– we exist in a state of alienation
– modern capitalist society is a society of consumption and
meaningless drudgery
– capitalist creation of “pseudo-needs”
– solution? Reinvent life!

18. Key terms:
derive
psychogeography
detournement

19. dérive
“In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period
drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all
their other usual motives for movement and action, and let
themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and
the encounters they find there.”
– the flow of acts and encounters

20. psychogeography
“They look at the city as a special instance of repressed
desires.”

21. detournement
“Ultimately, any sign is susceptible to conversion into
something else, even its opposite.”
– re-routing events and images
– An artistic technique in which works of art or mass
culture (comics, film, ads, etc.) are reworked or placed in
new contexts to subvert their original meaning.