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...their leadership styles. Where was the U.S. Navy leadership in all of this? Did Graf never have human-resources support over all those years? Were 360-degree evaluations conducted so she could get constructive feedback and coaching? This kind of treatment is reminiscent of the Dark Ages. Fathima Dada, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA...
...intelligence at work behind these stories is generally apparent, but this fact outpaces creativity more often than not. Their existence seems contingent on Merz (the movement Schwitters founded in 1918—and his pseudonym during his life—that paralleled many of the ideas of Berlin Dada), rather than a strong contribution to its corpus. The language lacks distinction, the plots are sometimes nonexistent and more often overly didactic, and the symbols are tired. For example, in “The Little Clock Spirit and the Lovers,” a couple is disturbed by the thought that...
...series of dance vignettes based on a performance Biggers presented to the Dalai Lama.It’s no surprise that Biggers has been called a sculptor, a performance artist, a video artist, and an installation artist—or that his art has been qualified as both Dada and post-minimalist. His work consciously eludes labels. It is at once formal and multidisciplinary, static and interactive. “I am interested in making stuff that I, and other people, can’t categorize,” he says. And as Biggers engages the viewer with innovative forms...
Halfway through “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess,” one may indulge the urge to turn to the Internet to help explain Andrei Codrescu’s looping chain of definitions, anecdotes, and exaggerated statements about the world. The entries that compose Codrescu’s “guide” are thick with allusions to forgotten female poets and obscure psychedelic rock bands. It’s hard to read them without wanting to know more, especially with little prior knowledge of Codrescu’s main focus: the 1920s...
...Carpenter Center in “Corbu Pops,” a performance that was both humorous and disquieting.William Pope.L is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work in performance and public interventionist art which often deals with themes of race and consumerism. Influenced by movements such as DADA, the unsettling, yet intriguing “Corbu Pops” defies boundaries. “Artists like to give their talks the shape of a liquid, pour them into a container, to ‘fill,’” said Pope.L in a talk before the performance...