Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012
Zone C: Independent Project
'adumbrate the wall of Dada'
as part of 'Dada Reboot!'
Collective Independent Project curated by Thom Sokoloski

The Distillery Historic District, 55 Mill Street
29 September 2012 (Saturday)
7.30pm to sunrise.

Dada Reboot!
Info
Review

"If people felt in the moment and inspired enough to be in the creative process the Case Goods Lane had an interactive collage called the Adumbrate The Wall of Dada. Participation was encouraged and many took advantage of the wall and the dice of 6 to create what would be destroyed at the end of the evening. The restriction to live in the moment and not make claim on art itself for it will be destroyed. “It will just be Dada.” This creative process was explored by many people. Some were surprised that, there were no rules to the type of content they could place on the wall." - Ruth Wilgress

definition of 'adumbrate'
1. describe briefly
2. to understand

"Dada exhibition. Another one! What's the matter with everyone wanting to make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb ... can you imagine anyone, around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces, sticking it together and displaying it?" - Max Ernst (1891–1976)

Dada Reboot! is a curated collective expression of contemporary artists and how they engage with the ideas and artistry of the Dada Movement.

The aim is to have a huge collage wall assembled in this public participatory installation piece to understand Dada, and to be close to Dada, one have to go back to the basics. You will have a wall and a dice of 6 chances to create what will be destroyed at the end of this installation. Its restriction is to only live for that moment. Your art, my art, their art, will never be art. What they see as art can be destroyed, but the experience to creating what they claim as art cannot be destroyed. It will just be Dada.

In front of the wall, a table with a dice (1:6) and a deck of cards (1:2).
At the wall, 2 sides - left, right. 6 drawers - to beautify, to destroy.
One dice of 6 chance.
6 boxes for each chance

What is Dada?
To understand what is Dada is to go back to where it all started.
To be close to Dadaism would be a matter of a gamble of chance.
Chance that plays Dada or Dada that plays chance.
To build Dada, To destroy Dada
Creation is creative? War is destructive?
To acknowledge Dada, To be free from Dada

To have the wall being documented/photographed/remembered during the installation is a chance as the wall will no longer be a wall once the installation has ended.