YOU AREN’T LOOKING AT THE ART, BUT ARE PART OF IT, AND ARE, IN FACT, MAKING THE ART AS YOU EAT. POEMAS DADAÍSTAS (DADÁ) LITERATURE SAUSAGE (DIETER ROTH) IDENTICAL LUNCH (ALISON KNOWLES). POEMA DADAÍSTA (DADÁ) TOMA UN PERIÓDICO / TOMA UNAS TIJERAS / ESCOGE UN ARTÍCULO / CORTA EL ARTÍCULO / CORTA CADA UNA DE LAS PALABRAS Y PONLAS EN UNA BOLSA / SACÚDELA SUAVEMENTE / SACA UNA A UNA LAS PALABRAS / CÓPIALAS EN ESE ORDEN / EL POEMA SERÁ COMO TÚ / Y YA ERES UN(X) ESCRITR(X), INFINITAMENTE ORIGINAL Y CON UNA SENSIBILIDAD QUE VA MÁS ALLÁ DE LO VULGAR. (TRISTAN TZARA, INSTRUCCIONES PARA HACER UN POEMA DADAÍSTA). SEVEN DADA MANIFESTOS AND LAMPISTERIES TRISTAN TZARA LITERATURE SAUSAGE (DIETER ROTH) BETWEEN 1961 AND 1970 ROTH CREATED ABOUT FIFTY “LITERATURE SAUSAGES.” TO MAKE EACH SAUSAGE ROTH FOLLOWED A TRADITIONAL RECIPE, BUT WITH ONE CRUCIAL TWIST: WHERE THE RECIPE CALLED FOR GROUND PORK, VEAL, OR BEEF, HE SUBSTITUTED A GROUND-UP BOOK OR MAGAZINE. ROTH MIXED THE GROUND-UP TEXTS WITH FAT, GELATIN, WATER, AND SPICES BEFORE STUFFING THEM INTO SAUSAGE CASINGS. THE SOURCE MATERIALS INCLUDED WORK BY AUTHORS AND PERIODICALS THAT THE ARTIST EITHER ENVIED OR DESPISED; THEY RUN THE GAMUT FROM LOWBROW ILLUSTRATED TABLOIDS TO WELL-REGARDED CONTEMPORARY GERMAN NOVELS TO THE WORKS OF KARL MARX AND THE INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHER GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL. HTTPS://WWW.MOMA.ORG/INTERACTIVES/EXHIBITIONS/2013/DIETER_ROTH/WORKS/LITERATURE-SAUSAGE/INDEX.HTML IDENTICAL LUNCH (ALISON KNOWLES) EN LOS SESENTAS, ALISON KNOWLES IBA DIARIO A COMER A RISS FOOD Y ORDENABA LO MISMO. UN DÍA, PHILIP CORNER, UN AMIGO, LE HIZO NOTAR QUE SIEMPRE COMÍA LO MISMO, UN “IDENTICAL LUNCH”. ASÍ, ALISON HIZO EL EVENT SCORE Y MUCHAS PERSONAS COMENZARON A HACER SU PROPIA VERSIÓN, COMO GEORGE MAACIUNAS QUE LICUÓ TODO. MI “IDENTICAL LUNCH” DE ESTE SEMESTRE: GOOGLE. HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=2TWVA0MLAEY UNTITLED (FREE) (RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA) IN 1992, RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA CREATED AN EXHIBITION ENTITLED UNTITLED (FREE) AT 303 GALLERY IN NEW YORK. THIS LANDMARK PIECE, IN WHICH THE ARTIST CONVERTED A GALLERY INTO A KITCHEN WHERE HE SERVED RICE AND THAI CURRY FOR FREE, HAS BEEN RECREATED AT MOMA AS PART OF THE INSTALLATION CONTEMPORARY GALLERIES: 1980–NOW ON VIEW ON THE SECOND FLOOR. THIS BACK OFFICE CURRY KITCHEN HAS BEEN REPLICATED TO SCALE, AND THE ARTIST WORKED WITH MOMA TO RECREATE THE EXPERIENCE, WITH CURRY PREPARED AND SERVED BY THE MUSEUM’S RESTAURANT STAFF DAILY FROM NOON—3:00 P.M. IN THIS DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE CONCEPTUAL PIECE, THE ARTIST INVITES THE VISITOR TO INTERACT WITH CONTEMPORARY ART IN A MORE SOCIABLE WAY, AND BLURS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ARTIST AND VIEWER. YOU AREN’T LOOKING AT THE ART, BUT ARE PART OF IT—AND ARE, IN FACT, MAKING THE ART AS YOU EAT CURRY AND TALK WITH FRIENDS OR NEW ACQUAINTANCES. HTTPS://WWW.MOMA.ORG/EXPLORE/INSIDE_OUT/2012/02/03/RIRKRIT-TIRAVANIJA-COOKING-UP-AN-ART-EXPERIENCE/