Trash Recycling Protocol: 2006

16.12.06

DaDa=Anti-art and the irrational=Trash recycling

It is difficult in the Dada context of ambiguity and paradox to understand what was meant by the word ArT. It is almost as if everybody held to their own private meaning, yet there was a certain consistency. In the manifesto of 1918 Tzara wrote "AII pictorial or plastic work is useless . . ." ; but Schwitters affirmed that ". . . everything the artist spits is art". Disillusionment was the ultimate in nearly everything that Dada represented. Richter pointed out that art must be "set on its way towards new functions which could only be known after the total negation of everything that had existed before until then: riot, destruction, defiance, confusion. The role of chance, not as an extension of the scope of art, but as a principle of dissolution and anarchy. In art, anti-art".

Though today we can recognize certain stylistic qualities which immediately identify a particular painting as Dada, at the time the imagery of individual artists was diffuse and widespread. Some work were clearly rooted in Expressionism, others demonstrated an interest in machine images, Geometric Abstraction, Constructivism and De Stijl, Conceptualism and even in an informal abstract manner which pre-dated Tachism by over thirty years.

With true Dada irony, flimsy, gratuitous or violent work, which was considered as "anti-art", as, in Arp's words, ". . . art without sense . . . without meaning, as Nature is", has acquired with the passage of time an aesthetic quality. A curious process seems to take place when an object is placed in a museum or gallery environment. The readymades of Duchamp, originally objects of great ironic or shock value, can now be seen as extremely beautiful in the conventional sense of the balanced relationships of plastic and formal elements. Schwitters's collages of junk, rubbish and scraps of paper now seem to possess a sustained and intense Iyricism unequalled by any other modern artist.

Perhaps, without meaning to, the Dadaists did create art. One wonders what would be the reactions of the more iconoclastic, had they survived, to seeing their paintings, sculptures and objects enshrined in museums and regarded as historical examples of a cultural tradition. Indeed, did they turn over in their graves? For Dada did contribute an aesthetic, extend our collective visual and perceptual experience, broaden our mental horizons. In the act of attempting to "humiliate" art, through the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, the "total work of art", the beginnings of what we would now call multi-media art, inherited from Kandinsky, the ordinary and everyday was imbued with aesthetic significance.It is more specifically in the techniques that the Dadaists used, and the philosophical implication inherent in these techniques, that Dada produced its unique contribution; a contribution that can be seen as not so much merely adding to a tradition, as shifting the whole mainstream, as it were, into a new riverbed.

10.10.06

THE FIRE


Burning process of cut out painting. The procedure embeded to digital artworks collection Cyber Centaurs: Incrustatio 1.0 - 1.6

23.8.06

Twelve days after Birthday

This is a kind of "instruction" how to act properly in twelve days after your Birthday. Maybe you will find there some "rational grain".

1. First day connected with your appearance, power activity, skills.You must keep yourself in good form.

2. Second day is a day of "things". Your house, comfort, financial position. You can not lend, spend a lot of money. If you get present or money in this day it's your luck.

3. Third day connected with your surroundinds (brothers, sisters, neighbours). Contacts and new information, TV, conversations, short trip.

4. Fourth day connected with your family background, family. Contact with your relatives.

5. Fifth day connected with your creative work, your artistic skills, any adventures. You can create, play lottery, cards, etc.

6. Sixth day connected with your HEALTH! Matters of diet, purging of your organism from any dross, very bad if you ill in this day.

7. Seventh day - your partnership. Close connection, any contracts, connection with law. What you will lay in this day, so you get.

8. Eighth day connected with critical situations. You can meet your spiteful person, some misunderstandings with close people. This day is a purge though suffering.

9. Ninth day connected with spiritual matters, day for soul, information about people from a distance.This day for meditation, spiritual literature.

10. Tenth day connected with your professional work, if your work depend on some people.Keep good touch with these people. You have to be strong and patient, have self-control.

11. Eleventh day is a base for any changes, energetic turn for your life. Would be good a meeting with true friends, dream of something, any occult knowledge.

12. Twelfth day - summation. Trying to understanding of your experiences, everything to do for yourself, for your soul. Keep your power, health, don't start
something new.

Within these days keep a diary and draw a conclusion.

22.6.06

In The Year 2078.

22.5.06

My stone Cacholong

Mineral Cacholong = Opal or Nephrite ( SiO2 + H20 )

Cacholong, a little known mineral in the world of gemstones, is pretty obscure.Cacholong also known as Kalmuck Agate is a variety of Opal. Its name possibly comes from a Cach River in Uzbekistan. Cacholong is milky white in color with a Moh hardness of about 6. It can be easily carved or inlaid.

This stone has the magical powers.

Gemstones

Hermitage Museum

19.5.06

My Ring

One Magician told me:
I want to tell you about your stone.It is cacholong, white, light-proof stone, very beautiful.This stone connected with Moon, Venise and Taurus. More of all this
stone gives very strong power to Taurus.It makes strong your success - any savings, bargains, attracts money, makes better your health , very good for harmony and increases men's potency.The best of all purchase this stone in 18. Moon day and wear it on your middle finger ( third finger), but dress it firstly only in 22. Moon day. I believe in stones as in others things that I know, I can not believe blindly and with many stones I made some experiments, therefore can tell that I believe.