Monday, July 23, 2012

Downhill Asemics; madness on the continuum




First;
 Kurt Schwitters, step by step removes all syntactic structure from the text.



 Kurt Schwitters to the Swiss Dadaist Arp. Blackberries (2)

belivered pra! 
 first I say why?
 why does one use upper case and lower case? i use only lower case. then I say why? why does one punctuate i write everything without punctuationthen i ask why why does one use umlauts i won't be straight diacritical henceforth i will write zurich ful- fills seclusion personal carryover and then i remember the old phrase from mathematics namely that it does not matter in which order i add respect multiply and now i write vole instead of love because love needs voles to love voles and finally now will  giveup the or derofwordsamongthemselvesbywritingonlyo
egiantwordorwhilemorewrotitsoladinorthographyisnaturallyunimportantandsenseigiveupinfavorofnonsenseandthustheitsheklmnopqrsutabelgikemaminopetroleumplaguekakrrkrrksrsto-pitonobilamenteyakkaanteelinguekitonpausbacrocodilemmadiemadilemma *)

                                                                                   kuwitter
*)Here the typographer went stark raving mad and threatened a general strike,  should he be forced to set any more Kuhgewitter (Cowweather).
(from; Pppppp: Kurt Schwitters Poems, Performance, Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics )


Then;
Charles Crumb removes all distinguishability between letters and reduces punctuation.






















A next logical step towards total insanity might be  to remove spacing and expression, reducing the text to a line-based grid
_____________________
 __________  __________
 _____________________
 _____________________
 _____________________
 ______  ______________
 ___________________  _
______________________


However I'd say the real difference between Crumb and Schwitters here is that Schwitters is frisky jumping up and down the continuum whereas Crumb is forever glued to a fixed point.




by
http://marcvanelburg.blogspot.nl/
see also;
 https://www.flickr.com/photos/het-saptrajekt/
 https://www.youtube.com/user/4398574291811/videos
 http://tellab.home.xs4all.nl/