Additional Content: Unit 3
The DADA MOVEMENT
The Dada movement emerged around 1916, during and after World War I as a reaction to the chaos and absurdity of the world. Dada artists rejected logic, order, and traditional aesthetic values, instead celebrating chance, irrationality, fragmentation, and play. They used collage, photomontage, and found objects to challenge meaning itself. For them, cutting and rearranging was both political and emotional as a way of confronting instability by re-shaping it.
This philosophy connects beautifully to both photography and clay:
This philosophy connects beautifully to both photography and clay:
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Photography captures fleeting moments, often shaped by chance and light.
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Clay records touch, accident, and imperfection.
- Collage sits between the two, it’s a space where you can recompose fragments of both the physical and emotional world.
Kensuke Koike
I love Kensuke Koike’s work. It is really inspiring the way he can create an entirely new image and idea using only one image, or sometimes combining two. His practice is centred around a philosophy of ‘no more, no less’ exploring the possibilities of creating a new image made up only of itself. Using found objects in this way creates a more dynamic way of working, as although he experiments with many prototypes initially, there is only one chance to work with the original photograph.
