DADAgear
Mauro Arrighi, Anika Hirt, Onur Sönmez
performance, 2008
Interface Cultures
*DADAgear* is a performative act, which investigates human-to-human interaction and social spaces via smart sweaters following the Dadaist's precepts: randomness and a playful attitude. While wearing the sweaters, by touching oneself as well as hugging others and punching, kicking or rolling on the floor, the audience members can use the garments as instruments; fragments of sentences and sounds will become audible depending on where and how the sweaters have been touched. Through this interaction a kind of Dadaistic generative poetry will emerge. While a single user could produce a non-complete sentence on his/her own, the semantic power of the performance is fully expressed when two or more garments are ‘played’consecutively following a certain order. Then it will be possible to formulate full sentences, but still with weird and/or unexpected meanings. Sense of touch plays a key role in the performance, the way in which the audience behaves is crucial: the harder one puts his/her hand(s) on the sensitive area(s), the more intense the “tone” of the spoken words becomes. www.dadagear.orgThe performance takes place everyday during 4th-9th September, at 5pm at the Schirmmacher.
performance, 2008
Interface Cultures
*DADAgear* is a performative act, which investigates human-to-human interaction and social spaces via smart sweaters following the Dadaist's precepts: randomness and a playful attitude. While wearing the sweaters, by touching oneself as well as hugging others and punching, kicking or rolling on the floor, the audience members can use the garments as instruments; fragments of sentences and sounds will become audible depending on where and how the sweaters have been touched. Through this interaction a kind of Dadaistic generative poetry will emerge. While a single user could produce a non-complete sentence on his/her own, the semantic power of the performance is fully expressed when two or more garments are ‘played’consecutively following a certain order. Then it will be possible to formulate full sentences, but still with weird and/or unexpected meanings. Sense of touch plays a key role in the performance, the way in which the audience behaves is crucial: the harder one puts his/her hand(s) on the sensitive area(s), the more intense the “tone” of the spoken words becomes. www.dadagear.orgThe performance takes place everyday during 4th-9th September, at 5pm at the Schirmmacher.
