Dada Show

Near the beginning of the semester I checked out that Dada show in the Jot Travis gallery. Some of the stuff was interesting. There was this artist who replaced all the letters in Moby Dick with the letter "e", that was neat. I don't really remember any of the other pieces, it was pretty forgettable. There was something that had to do with a television.... I don't know. Most art is pretty unremarkable to me anyway, it's all the same. That Moby Dick thing was different, I had always kind of entertained the idea of doing something along those lines but not for the sake of any sort of "artistic value" but just because I think it would be funny. Like having a book where each chapter consisted of only one sentence or each page only had one letter on it. It's more funny to me than artistic. So the Moby Dick piece was just kind of funny and amusing to me. I could try to ascribe some false meaning to it by saying that it's deconstructing a great work of literature and the artist is trying to reconstruct our views of the written artform or something, but I won't because that's not in the spirit of Dada.