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Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball (1916) Vertically. (2016)
Music box, sheet music, confetti, box.
Produced in collaboration with Arild Tveito and Santolarosa (2020).
The work, in it’s boxed form, was first shown at Artissima in Turin, Italy, November 2019.
Dada Manifesto (2016) is, in its entirety, a music box work of a total of 8 dada manifestos from the period 1916 to 1921 by Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Raoul Hausmann and others. The texts are copied to long strips of paper and all the D’s and A’s in the text are removed with a punching machine. When you play through the strip of paper, it is the absence of D-A- D-A in the manifestos you hear.
Manifestation is about making something clear or obvious; shaping a manifesto is about making visible and making public something that is important to one.
Dada was the first conceptual art movement where artists did not create aesthetically pleasing objects. The manifestos, which originated in the Dada movement, challenged bourgeois conventions and asked, and generated, challenging questions about society, about the role of the artist and about the meaning of art.
Dada Manifesto has previously been shown and performed at Sound Of A Cage, Tou Scene (Stavanger), Malmö Konsthall (Malmö, Sweden) and represented by the Oslo-based publisher Santolarosa during the art fair Artissima 2019 (Turin, Italy). Published on Twitter, in para · text # 2 (London, UK) and in COLDFRONT Magazine (New York / www).
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