DADA, EXPERIMENTAL ACTIONS, INTERMEDIA

People discovered their values are wrong when World War I happened. The immorality society was lost hope. Therefore a global movement has been appeared since some artists called for anti-nationalistic and international. The strong style is the combination of sense and non-sense. For example,  a poetry has different typefaces and sizes. The readers speak out on the basis of phonetics with different loudness and rhythm.

Painting or Performance?

Intermedia cannot classified the art work into any existing media. The new thing is to take different characteristic from different media and challenge the boundaries.

Modified ready-made objects and combined with other objects can be a new art work. This changes it function and change people's concept that usual things can be unusual.

Photo-montage gives new meanings from the new combination. Everything can change its meaning.The structure,dimensional, perspective etc are different in a work so to achieve the perfect states, technique is required. 

The central experience of Dada is to stimulate one's creative by the use of flexible chance which is the mixture of rational and non-rational and go against the conscious mind. Art is a meaningful platform for realizing the society and era.

Dada is internationalism, equal value of all materials , destroy traditional limitations and communicate with the audience.

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Experimental action is mainly separated to chance operations and open works.
The specific situation with unstable results is random and strong organisation.

1.Chance operations
Example:
freewriting
bulletism- shoot ink to the canvas and paint base on the ink
coulage- pour liquid material to cold water so that it will solidify
decalcomania- cover a paper on the wet paint
frottage- portray the trace and develop the work base on it
exquisite corpse- assemble many words and images
cut-up technique- cut some words from a text and rearrange to be a new text


It's the adventure with rule-based and game-like. The free association helps artists to dream without censorship. Although the composer has some planning, immediate action increases the possibilities of chance.


2.Open works
Performers have the strong role and also a lot of freedom has been given so they can decide what the works like. Even they the same score, 2 performances may not be recognized since the big different.