Some NadaDada Ranting

NadaDada Motel brings to light the transient nature of art making. We invite the public in and ask that an audience witnesses actions taken by the artists and observers as well. The art is all of us.

The days of movements in which adherents take to artmaking in a similar vain, even in the case of the Dada movement, artists were in agreement about how the work they made looked, or at least how it encountered the world around it.

There were statements circulated like the much revered "art for art's sake" in which public was asked, in the form of suspension of disbelief ideals shaped by the idea that Art is pure and of-itself. Nothing from the world outside of the Artworld was to intrude on the content of art made. Art wanted to stand on its own and did. It was more and more treated as something to be revered, believed, admired, admonished, but something that we were to believe meant something in its own right. It sat to be thought of and thought about–worshiped.

PostModernism came after that. Artists were exercising their right to do nothing–nada. Artists have been showing over and over, time and again that Art just doesn't matter, admonishing that we need to lower-case the word: art.

closer to outsiders, nomads, gypsies–or ask to be seen this way at least. Each artist is one's own island, in PostModern style, we alienate ourselves much more than they used to. The isolation, the despondent artist, a type most rehashed. Nihilism is the draw for many, rabid individualism is the order of the day as far as artists in their style and mindset, still chasing the undone, the never-seen before. But artists following tides will inevitably make what they're doing mostly into nothing. These are the times.

We enjoy our celabate styles and philosophies, but a parody often times of what we 'want' to do. I should say 'we'. Some artists parody other artists on purpose, replicating things already done, maybe with a twist, maybe no twist at all, reproductions in their own medium. recyclists I guess.

In the case of these historical groups of artists, such as Picasso and his residence at Bateau-lavoir, living and partying together, these artists created a lot and today we take over hotels and motels. We live together for a week. The experience is perpetuated thru art.

Collaboration becomes more and more frequent until we're all insanely intertwined in our work, this is work that weaves in and out of different modes of making and taking. There will be differences.