some more dada notes

saw/heard ballet mécanique from a loftier perch this time and the impact is significantly diminished. still a great piece tho.

towards a collaborative research/poetics project

nodal points

• anarchopacificm
  
• chance
  
• cage - mac low
  
• plastics - explosives/prosthetics
  
• taxonomy of collage
  
• history of dada publications
  
• schematics - ernst to braxton
  
• hybrid bodies and machines
  
• "This world of systems has gone to pieces" (Ball critiques Hegel)
  
• untranslated writings (Picabia et al.)
  
• the archives
  

aesthetic styles (emergent and residual)

• "abstraction"
  
• cubism (& cubo-futurism)
  
• expressionism
  
• impressionism / pointilism
  
• "collage"
  

between pure abstraction and pure mimeticism
curvilinear abstraction (arp and taeuber: 17-26)
arp's move from geometrical to organic abstraction

           the beginning drop sifts a genesis

richter's fugue --> geometrical abstraction as schematic --> graphic notation --> anthony braxton's composition titles

factor also into such a history: picabia's joke schematics, ernst's use of schematics including quasi-organics (189) -- and bargeld 207-210 -- on the way to tanguey

between geometrical and organic abstraction: schadographs (60-65), schwitters lithos

           using existence a preferred fabric / jagged searching discovery assault

           assumed ineffectual measurable weights

cubism

• janco (16)
  
• segal (42) - cubofuturist
  
• schwitters (187)

expressionism

• richter (40-41)
  
             an adjacent retreat into self-hipnosis / primitive masklike identity
  
  
• grosz (66)

impressionism/pointilism - taeuber's untitleds

berlin room

           dangles unflattening / allowed the hours / a text marching
           & / claimed the work

why do i still not know schlichter and dix?

grosz 72 - a vietnam of society (misread)
hausmann 96 - dylan's mr. jones

höch and hausmann have primacy of place in any taxonomy of collage

man ray aerographs (287-290) flirting with the geometrical-organic abstraction continuum

crotti --> schematic-like organic machines