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MoMA Audio: Podcast Submissions

291 by Jason Sneed
Sound Design & Music Composition - Flip Baber
Voice Actors - Dr. Jeffrey Guild, Jason Sneed, Aaron Breslaw, Doug Meehan

To create 291, Jason Sneed selected quotes and excerpts from Dadaist writings. The quotes were then drawn out of a hat and matched with different sounds described in the texts, using a combination of Dada strategies that depart from rationality and are assisted by the laws of chance, intuition, and assemblage. This random arrangement will hopefully result in new meanings and non-meanings, providing an entirely new interpretive method—or nothing at all. 291 features quotes from a variety of people affiliated with Dada, including Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, Hans Richter, Margery Rex, Francis Picabia, and Hugo Ball.

291 is inspired by the exhibition Dada
June 18, 2006–September 11, 2006
About the Dada exhibition
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Inspired by Kurt Schwitters, "Anxiety Plays: A Dramatic Fragment"
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Inspired by Marcel Duchamp, in Dada Art and Anti-Art by Hans Richter, published 1964
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Inspired by the writings of Hans Arp, including Isms in Art
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Inspired by Hans Richter's publication, Dada Art and Anti-Art, published 1964
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Inspired by inscription by Margery Rex, "'Dada' Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out: It Is on the Way Here," The New York Evening Journal, January 29, 1921.
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Inspired by quote from Hans Richter featured in Dada Between Heaven and Hell: Abstraction and Universal Language in the Rhythm Films of Hans Richter, Malcolm Turvey, MIT Press Journal, October, Summer 2003, Vol. -, No. , Pages 13–36
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Inspired by Manifeste cannibale by Francis Picabia. Originally read, in darkness, by Andre Breton at the great Dada soiree of the Theatre de l'oeuvre, March 27, 1920.
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Inspired by Hugo Ball (description of events at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich), from Cabaret Voltaire, Issue 1 Zürich, 15th May 1916
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