Author Archives: Michael St.Mark

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About Michael St.Mark

Conceptual / experimental multi-discipline artist, writer and photographer. Art influencer and founder of London Dada, recalling Dada's original aims and principles as envisaged by it's founder Hugo Ball. Eschews the often politically-motivated taboo on expressions of critical thought within art. Admiring Duchamp in going beyond the seemingly endless infatuation with the ' pretty picture' retinal and instead refusing to accept the standards and practices of an established corrupt art world and creatively stifling conventions that are still considered essential to attain fame and financial success: refusing to repeat himself or to develop one recognizable style to placate the commercial needs of the market.

New Dada work 503; Tesco bedsheets Dada Zen study

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Empty your mind here
Tesco Bedsheets Extra Ordinary Dada Zen study ( sweet dreams are made of this )
c. Michael St.Mark 2011

 

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Uploaded in full resolution for intimate study, a random collection of folded bedsheets on display  in store at Tesco Whitechapel
during June of this year. The bland ordinariness of the subject matter being exactly the purport of the work; envisaged as an opportunity to empty and declutter the mind from today’s alarming  bombardment of media and frantic society in general. In essence to “go the other way” – inwards in contemplation of the Extra OrdinaryTM  in a Dadaistic Zen-like quest for inner peace.
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Click to enlarge to view the detail item by item. The cluttered mind will rebel at first,  but take time to allow unfamiliar absence of intention to enter the unconscious and experience new Dada inner  freedom  where ” everything is nothing and nothing IS ” TM

 

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London Dada Work No. 502; Great Nights Out II

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Great Nights Out II
c. Michael St.Mark 2011

Second in the series exploring legacy aftermaths of the-night-before excesses. 

Linkback to GNO 1

( Click to screech straight to the scene of the accident )