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Excursion et Visite DADA | St Julien le Pauvre, Paris, 1921
One of the first urban ready-made: DADA gives an esthetic value to an EMPTY SPACE and not to an object.
“In April 1921 André Breton, Tristan Tzara and others organised a tour around the church of St Julien le Pauvre in Paris – or rather, around its churchyard, which at the time was used as a rubbish dump. In the flyer for the event they billed this as one of several planned tours that wished “to set right the incompetence of suspicious guides” by leading “excursions and visits” to places that have “no reason to exist”. Instead of drawing attention to picturesque sites, or places of historical interest or sentimental value, the aim was to make a nonsense of the social form of the guided tour.” C. Bishop
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