BALLISTICS
I am amazed by people who can update their blogs with relevant facts and insight multiple times a day. It must get really tiresome, and not-blogging is so very very easy. The nonist is off “redesigning,” which I guess is some kind of counterculture lingo meaning ‘bong hits.’ Now dadahead is gone too, maybe forever? Without them I am reduced to reading actual books about actual dada.
Specifically, Anabelle Melzer’s Dada and Surrealist Performance. She mentions a piece by Tristan Tzara, the originator of Dada at the famous Cabaret Voltaire in 1916 Zurich, which struck me as a remarkably prescient commentary on the state of the blogosphere in the year 2006. Tzara recalls the performance thusly:
Announced as “Dada,” I read aloud a newspaper article while an electric bell kept ringing so that no one would hear what I said. That was very badly received by the public who had become exasperated and shouted: “Enough! Enough!”