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April 21

DAY XI

Ideology and the Individual (cont.)

0. Return to DADA. Tristan Tzara and Huelsenbeck expressing two tendencies in the movement. Irrationality as intellectual anarchism. Randomness. The absurd (Ionesco). Dada as a moral stand.

Dada and the 60s. A "popular" revival - social conditions. LaMonte Young, Happenings. Audiences.

1. Existentialism. Individual freedom; living the present moment; the problem of suicide; honesty and moral integrity.

Presentation: Existentialism and Sartre

Relationship with artistic trends:

Beatniks

be bop

Accatone

Bonnie and Clide

saint and martyr) - The Maids
Albert Camus - The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus.
Ionesco - The Rhinoceros

Critique of structuralist thinking.

2. Individuals at odds with the society. Experimenting: thought, art, and reality.

Presentation: The poignant lives and work of Nerval, Artaud, Sade, Rimbaud, Leverkuhn, Mishima, Genet, Pound, Burroughs, Bataille, etc.

The image of the "artist" now and then (from the Middle Ages to present).

3. Quantum Theory. Uncertainty and possible historygrams.

Presentation:Quantum Mechanics - what is it; the counter-intuitive aspects; probability waves.

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