Art = Life = Art | Dada > Fluxus

The exhibition highlights the connections and elements of continuity between the Dadaism of the 1920s and the Fluxus movement which started in the 1960s. Presented on mobile shelving, the works invite interaction, encouraging visitors to study them close up and compose their own personal exhibition layout. Art as part of life (art=life), and not the opposite; breaking down barriers between what is deemed art and what is not, between playful and socially-committed works of art.

In 1916 Dadaism completely upended the prevailing concept of art, and the Fluxus movement of the early 60s drew on many elements and principles of Dada works.
Meanwhile the University Library is exhibiting two groups of artists’ books. The first, “dadaist” group, includes four rare books by Duchamp with “The bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even”, and a typescript transcription of texts from his work “Green Box”. The second group includes a series of books by the Fluxus artist Diter Roth, who continued Duchamp’s work. The works contain drawings, collages, texts and newspaper articles that reference the most banal aspects of everyday life: more than the end result, what counts is the creative process, the thought of art as part of life.