Kou Dada by Iono Allen

Did you say surrealism ? Marcel Duchamp ? Neo Dada ? "A Kou! Simulation" is an installation by Eupalinos Ugajin and Simotron Aquila in Second Life®Music: Ligeti, Nonsense Madrigals - The Alphabet, int. Chorro De Luz (arch...

Did you say surrealism ? Marcel Duchamp ? Neo Dada ? "A Kou! Simulation" is an installation by Eupalinos Ugajin and Simotron Aquila in Second Life®Music: Ligeti, Nonsense Madrigals - The Alphabet, int. Chorro De Luz (archive.org)Voice over: John Cage reading "Statements RE Duchamp" by John Cage (archive.org)Filmed at LEA23 in Second Life®, July 2012For non english speakers who may not understand all John Cage is saying, here is the extract:"What's more boring than Marcel Duchamp ? I ask you. (I've books about his work but never bother to read them). Busy as bees with nothing to do.He requires that we know that being an artist isn't child play: equivalent in difficulty surely to playing chess. Furthermore a work of our art is not ours alone but belongs also to the opponent who's there to the end.Anarchy ?He simply found that object, gave it his name. What then did he do ? He found that object, gave it his name. Identification. What then shall we do ? Shall we call it by his name or by its name ? It's not a question of names.....We hesitate to ask the question because we do not want to hear the answer. Going about in silence.One way to write music: study Duchamp.Say it's not a Duchamp. Turn it over and it is."