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Make Art, Not War Art Project, Pop Pop Dazzled by Every Day and Abstracts of Light and Shadows Presents: Its A Performance, Metis Week Découpé Visual Narrative Cut Up on YouTube...
This week was declared Métis Week by the City of Edmonton and celebrated at City Hall and the Alberta Legislature. I captured moments from both locations and created this 9-minute YouTube video containing various sounds and visuals. This process transforms the two events into art, crafting a fresh narrative akin to the cut-up technique (or 'découpé' in French). The original method involves dissecting and reassembling written text to create a new text and, consequently, a new sound and image experience. The roots of this concept can be traced back to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was writer William S. Burroughs who brought it to the forefront in the 1950s and early 1960s. William S. Burroughs saw cut-ups as a powerful tool for literary experimentation, unlocking hidden layers of meaning and offering glimpses into the future. Art Is Freedom Gallery
2024-11-18, 2023-2024, Make Art, Not War Art Project, Pop Pop Dazzled by Every Day and Abstracts of Light and Shadows Presents: Citizen News and Noteworthy Découpé Visual Narrative Cut Up on YouTube This project transforms recent and archived citizen-free news stories into art, creating a fresh narrative through the cut-up technique (or 'découpé' in French). "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it." – Ernst Fischer. Citizen Free News, Since 2007.
"...the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy." – John F. Kennedy, Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
