MECHANICAL HEAD II – the spirit of our times ( 2013 Osborne Chancellor cut )

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” There are twelve creatives in the world – the rest are paste ” – Mark E. Smith.

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~ In the fearless and true perception spirit of Dada ~

Six Career Artists in creative stasis ( as by the necessary ambition they must become ) aspire to greatness
© Michael St.Mark 2022

Unspoken conditions that greatly help in becoming a recognized art great in the early 21st C; such as the right people to crawl / fawn to and golden rules to be rigorously followed.

Links to London Dada Work no.168 from January 2006;
A Cure for Contemporary Art

& Work No. 253 from 2006
Six Solid Ghosts / e11even Solid Ghosts, featuring the plagiarism of Xan Padron

Artist Advisory

Featured post; BANKSY UNMASKED FOR REAL

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Entranced / Look Closely, the Truth’s there Somewhere
© Art Axis  2019

Featuring the actual inside page of the June 6th edition of the Daily Mail

Entering the third decade of the new millennium, the UK is patently witnessing end-times for the few remaining vestiges of news reporting accuracy and balance within its mainstream media. Those in the industry, charged with delivering authentic news and current affairs to the public, are having their training and hard-won skillsets inexorably undermined and compromised.
Hampered from honest reporting by corrupt print and television media-owning plutocrats, many a serious journalist lives in fear of career limitation or even termination by presenting accurately stories and events that happen to be politically or financially inconvenient to those already fiscally well-situated and in positions of power.
Acting under masks of unbiased neutrality, those few who succeed with promotion to mainstream media eminence are invariably enabled by dint of genuine or feigned allegiance to the aims and ambitions of that powerful elite; thus perpetuating an insidious system of subtle propaganda that has in the past soft-soaped the population into accepting stringent financial impositions, restrictions and even illegal war as absolute necessities.

Links to Work 999 from 2018; ” Muddle England”

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Dada; being initially a literary expression of war protest is well represented through this image – an accurate photographic metaphor of the times we live in.

Going forward, the way out from this long-standing media-maintained impasse is through the individual engaging with his innate human potential for true perception, as against blindly accepting increasingly tiresome external impositions of reality.
” When a lie is seen as a lie, the false as false; in that very perception is reality, truth ”
M. St.M
Shoreditch, London, 2020

* Coronavirus update June 2020
Please see uniquely psychologically relevant Work No 454 from 2011

• Coronavirus update May 2021; a whistle-blowing journalist speaks out via UK Column
• Screen save from London Dada Twitter feed, June 2021
  

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London Dada mission accomplished; please see the previous post.

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After 13 years of making not insubstantial inroads of overdue change into the flint-hard fear and conformity-ridden glass ceiling of the 100% money-driven pretentious, shallow and cronyism-infested art world; what more suitable triumphant note on which to end a still largely unrecognized chapter in art history than the closure of Dada’s formerly missing UK expression co-inciding with being blocked by the almighty Artnet on social media, simply for having the audacity to publicise home truths about international art market big name cash cow con artists such as Koons and Hirst.

Link to the story typifying Jeff Koon’s ( and others ) MO, just the latest in a long line of habitual plagiarism of other artists’ work, combined with a depressing personal paucity of creative originality, skill, talent or moral compass in at least tipping a name hat to the unrecognized artists behind much of their output.

London Dada; 2005 – 2019+
( Works No. 01 to 1002+ )

Michael St.Mark
Shoreditch, 13th May 2019

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Addendum.
Work to continue on this blog and London Dada websites in refining, upgrading and adding missing content from some earlier posts, whose loss was due to LD’s former blog platform blog.co.uk closing in 2014.
Artist ART AXIS to remain active in promoting existing LD content across social media for posterity and continue to conduct Banksy-style public awareness stunts London-wide through our Green Disc subsidiary co.

The 7 Tenets of Dada

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Legacy validation
The imperishable fruit of London Dada;

6191 photography collective
Carrying the torch for Hugo Ball’s vision through the medium of photography reoriented;
“ Art that expresses true perception and fearless criticism of the times we live in ”

Six ” creep & crawl ” Career Artists  ( locked in creative stasis by ambition )
© Michael St.Mark 2018-22.

Bianca Bosker is unmasking The opaque art world” with her new book, Get the Picture. “Obsessive Art Fiends ” https://www.npr.org/2024/02/07/1227564378/get-the-picture-bianca-bosker-art

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Armistice Day 2018

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Michael St.Mark advocates returning legendary German artist Kurt Schwitters’ final creation, his Merz Wall – dubbed his ” life’s great work” – to its indisputably rightful place;  reintegrated into the Merz Barn that is still languishing vacant like a crown with its jewels long extracted, in Elterwater Cumbria.
Official KS Newsletter article here..

MERZ WALL RETURN St Mark

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