Welcome back to DaDa; the home of Modern Art.

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Welcome to 691, the New Dada online journal, representing the resurrection of the Dada movement – the foundation stone of modern art.
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” Art, for us, is not an end in itself, but an opportunity for true perception and criticism of the times we live in “
– Hugo Ball, father of Dada, 1916

Dedicated to re-aligning art back to its original class-less roots, re-introducing meaning and enlightened social commentary – and yes, humor too, – back into art, purging the present money and privilege-based establishment’s tedious museum/gallery charade circus that we’ve been ‘washed into accepting as art, today.

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London Dada – 21st C. Dada that recaptures the magic, mystery and wonder of an authentic modern art tradition.

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Work No. 217; Analogue Relic

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Analogue Relic
( Discarded TV aerial, Alexander Palace )
c. 2005 Michael St.Mark
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North London’s “Ally Pally” was the place of the world’s first then high definition television transmission in 1936. Nowadays, although television is still broadcast from here, half the building is derelict, the “found” discarded old aerial on a high window ledge, intriguing, esp. with the imminent introduction of digital & HD TV.

“The pole languishing amid such desolation induces an atmosphere of hundreds of thousands of hours receiving soaps, sport and news.
The Queen’s Coronation, Coronation Street in B & W. East Enders – who shot Dirty Den? Dallas – who shot J.R? The first moon landing. England win the World Cup.. etc etc.
All those dramas and tragedies viewed in the 1950s, 60s, 70s 80s & 90s; now as nothing but the dead past; the filthy aerial battered, decaying,  leaning against the window frame as if exhausted from the ordeal of decades of exposure to the crudity and stupidity of human noise and vision.” – M. St.M
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The “First Broadcast” plaque and the TV transmission tower / mast at Alexander Palace.

Work No. 216; Road to Everywhere

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Road to Everywhere
The Road to Everywhere
c. 2006 Michael St.Mark
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WW2 military road, Rye Harbour, E. Sussex.

 

A Dada Conundrum
If everywhere is everywhere, are we only apparently on the road to everywhere while not realizing, for the time being, that we’ve already arrived?

– M.St.M