Do Not Try to Eat This

Dada was a movement known for collage, upturned urinals, and its radicality--a reaction to the horrors of World War I. It was NOT known for its food, but in 1961 artist Man Ray offered this "Menu for a Dadaist Day," and we cooked it for you.
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[@SondreBKrogh]

Contemporary memes are just neo-dadaism.

[@MCAndyT]

YES! So excited to see the contemporary thread there.

[@Olivenpaste]

B E A N S

[@vlogbrothers]

"I hope you're not hungry." Brilliant.

[@vlogbrothers]

"This humiliated age has not succeeded in winning our respect." DANG.

[@clarissahigginbotham2498]

Man I skip lunch for this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@giabea.]

“Hello I’m a piece of garbage.” Beautiful.

[@TheBibliophiliac]

A Blue Apron commercial played before this, so no guarantees.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I'm even hungrier.

[@julianyberg6733]

"her good PRIZES hungry & Noteworthy This We speak craziest Strength No has it all is the next that speak the newest, hilarity, friend readers: to the books for , intrigue, for the MIDDLE and food! to you." - Sarah Urist Green

[@puupipo]

In upper secondary school I had to give a presentation on modernism in literature. In an attempt to capture the spirit of Dada I made an iteration of Tzara's "To Make A Dadaist Poem" by letting each student take one word from a paper bag and asking them to write that word on the blackboard. It worked beautifully, and to this day, if I have to give a presentation, I try to find a way to get the audience involved somehow because it takes away some of the pressure and attention from me.

[@andromedaj2894]

hello, i'm a piece of ~G A R B A G E ~

[@MCRogueHaven]

Bill Wurtz!

[@graphite2786]

And to drink, a single plum , floating in perfume, served in a man's hat.

[@BrianHutzellMusic]

"I'd like a beer, Moe!"

[@griffin1155]

i've always been insistent on the fact that bill wurtz is a dadaist

[@ojiverdeconfleco]

We used to play "cadaver exquisito" between classes: write a sentence, fold it over and pass the paper to the next person, who repeats the process - when you run out of paper, you unfold it all and read the poem. Thanks for bringing those memories back, the poems were usually disonant but rang true.

[@seabb]

An exquisite corpse :)

[@chloepilon364]

huh we used to call this game asparagus? who knows why lol

[@brideoflister]

The vibrant and nonsensical collages of nostalgic tech, brand logos and forlorn ancient statues that make up the Vaporwave aesthetic are very at home with Dada. I feel like they both represent a kind of cultural exhaustion that's very real right now.

[@theartassignment]

Strong agree. Very much a kind of new wave collage.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I'm in a modern art class this semester and it makes me feel so good when Sarah puts up pictures of artworks and I instantly recognise and understand them.

[@theartassignment]

Very glad to hear this. Clear sign of A ++ success!

[@MrMattyHoff]

right? so satisfying...

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

The Art Assignment I just took my final in art history and I feel very confident about it :)

[@juliaansaldi2028]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE KZbin SERIES EVER

[@MCAndyT]

I feel like not a day goes by that I don't end up talking about this channel to someone. I feel like I went from saying "I heard on NPR" to "There's this KZbin channel called the Art Assignment"...

[@nabeeha4899]

I love when there's a comparison with current trends or movements. It sheds light on our place in history. There is such diversity and complexity with our own art and movements due to the effect the internet has on mass consumption.

[@JosieKoznarek]

I love Dada. I feel like it most closely resembles the artistic expression of today.

[@scottoconnor]

Another great cooking video! Those steel ball bearings in machine oil look delicious :) I just dumped out my olives and am going to try some of these with my blue french bread tonight. The only thing is I don't have any food paint so I'm just going to use some of that blue silicone RTV gasket sealant since I have some on hand. I think that's going to put it over the top!

[@theartassignment]

Yum. Sounds like a delicious adaptation of the recipe!

[@MCAndyT]

DON'T TRY TO EAT IT

[@carlaafonso6194]

I really enjoy the dada movement. Dada is anti-dada. It's just so cool

[@LordStompyHarpLoonyTunes]

Early punk was Dada. Sex Pistols, The Damned, Dead Kennedy's, they were violently opposed to everything including punk, and yet comically non sensical at the same time

[@myopinionsarefacts]

I've seen no art more beautiful nor inspirational as Marcel Duchamp "Mona Lisa with a mustache"

[@radicalbacon]

I got an advertisement for Blue Apron before this episode. There's something charming and funny about that.

[@debasrutiboral2526]

So happy to see a new video!

[@lorenabpv]

as usual, a new video on this channel was a highlight of my day

[@firewordsparkler]

I really want to make a dada poem now! This was such a cool episode and I learned so much.

[@michealkelly9441]

These are so good. Bless you for making them

[@natashiagushue3889]

This was so good!!! I'm a poet myself and that poem idea looked fantastic. I will have to give it a go. I can always count of this show to inspire me.

[@erinmarie840]

Something so beautiful about simply following these instructions. Really inspiring! I wonder how many people have actually made the Dada breakfast lunch and dinner before.

[@marplani]

I really enjoyed this! Thanks for making it. :)

[@petah9795]

I adored this video. Thank you for posting it! I do Process Art, and it (like many other contemporary and modern art forms) began with Dada. This is a lovely window into a very important movement!!!!

[@katieno-one2345]

I clicked on this SO FAST! I’m really into learning about the dada movement and I’m in love with this series!

[@MahlenMorris]

Dada was the first art movement I really fell in love with; so much so that the name I wrote and published poetry under (this was in high school) was Denim Dada. 35 years later, I still find it fascinating, and will make a beeline to a urinal displayed in a gallery :) If you want to learn (a lot) more about dada, I highly recommend the book "Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century" by Jed Rasula. Making a coherent narrative about people who distrusted coherent narratives is challenging, but the book works.

[@morganday6280]

I love this series, I don't know anything about art and this is an awesome way to understand it along with history. Thank you!

[@carlaafonso6194]

Morgan Day +++

[@leeroy_unstoppable]

Isn't the "dank meme" the most dada thing we have today?

[@Noah-kl8wn]

I love these so much !!! Much love from Germany

[@MrRookitty]

I always look forward to these videos! The Van Gogh one was so good!

[@lauravilbiks]

My favorite movement! This made me so happy :D

[@vivianvergal9618]

This was brilliant!

[@estrellacasias]

I was having a terrible day but I'm so happy this came to make it better

[@MrMalDawg]

I can’t tell you how much I love this. Although I have to admit that it left me hungry for more.

[@luvLins]

I had a seminar in surrealist art last semester! I just sent this to my prof!

[@andersliljevall2946]

Thank you, that was fun!

[@sashatroyka9665]

This is one of the best episodes yet. Also, I had a bad dream last night that The Art Assignment was over, and I was really happy when I woke up and realized that wasn't true. This show is so amazing.

[@ghanishkakedar9086]

LOVED IT!

[@jasonl6537]

This is exciting, because learning about Dadaism in my history class revitalized my interest in art, after years of not being invested in it anymore. The idea of Dadaism being a response of the Great War was deeply resonant with me.

[@tropezando]

This is scarily similar to actual food styling for photography.

[@Hussiens]

Just wonderful. I always get excited to see these videos. Dada was such a difficult thing for me to grasp in the one art history related class I took. Which I guess is part of the point. Question: Are there recipes in relation to the Vienna Secession?

[@theartassignment]

Hmm. Please find out for me. Would much appreciate.

[@alatussolanum]

these are like the memes of the past and I’m living for them

[@jacobcoolguy]

nice @bill wurtz call out

[@ThisIsReMarkable]

That's the way I want to live my life. Cause I know that everything's gonna be fine

[@dj586858]

My favorite line: "We are instructed to take the olives & juice from one large jar of prepared green or black olives...& throw them away." Love it! Great job!

[@whatamidoingwithmylifelol_]

Love the dada

[@chris-andrebrissett5208]

I love this channel but how did I get HERE!

[@CtkCitraa]

i like the idea behind the word "DADA". It has so many meaning in many languages but it is nothing at the same time. ps. "DADA" also mean chest/breast in Indonesian. sometimes it could be a slang for goodbye too. but it's pronounced "daa daa"

[@paulandreigillesania5359]

It also means "babble" in Filipino (dadâ: babble / madadâ: obnoxious babbler, roughly).

[@Xenolilly]

Fun stuff.

[@Beryllahawk]

This video actually made Mina Loy's poems make more sense. Cool!

[@margaretguillory]

It took me awhile. But, I think I finally got it. This episode is about feeding the senses, the experiences. It is a sensual experience rather than a culinary one.

[@marijkebax4765]

Ik denk, kook en beweeg ook als een dadaïst, echt inspirerend!

[@elizabethmalesi6534]

Amazzzzzzzzing!

[@Mehrnooshb]

I think I wanna know more about Dada now

[@rebeccastandley8573]

dada never dies

[@haleywilson520]

I laughed out loud at "and throw them away."

[@honklerfinkelstein2113]

I was in the House of Voltaire. Very interesting and nice people would recommend

[@hanielthealmighty7204]

8:00 And in indonesia dada means a Chest

[@welwitschia]

Yeah! Long live Dada! Thanks to it I'm free to pee in any color I want.

[@patw.6567]

Viewer proceeds to eat recipe.

[@KannikCat]

Alright, that's it... I'm off to see if I can find some organic ball bearings now. They look delish! :D

[@NataliePate]

I am really enjoying this series. The eggs remind me of when one of the guys from Squash2nd channel poked raw spaghetti through a sausage and boiled the whole thing forming a delicious looking tendril monster. I am not a young person and I marvel at having never seen this done before. I think I saw you in a Chicago gallery. I wish I had said hello. Can't remember the gallery name- owner is tall, used to read poetry. His work has sort of tattoo sensibilities, he was rumored to have been a fireman I think? The show was black and white photos that may have involved viaducts. Anyway, Hi, I am enjoying the series.

[@k2l1m3n]

Still a more appetising meal than slobber carrots and gross barbecue. Or any of John's other punishment foods.

[@excellenthannah]

I know she didn't eat it, but it still made me cringe a bit to imagine her actually doing it

[@ThisIsReMarkable]

Oh gosh. Same!!

[@melina9551]

can you please get a netflix series ! I love this channel so much !

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

Forgetful an amen as fruitloops.com aspect ratio introspection. Weekend international cultural appropriation. Voracity, volcanicity, irregardless for bean. "Imperfection" - 2018

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

Trumpets: "DadaaaaaaAAA"

[@9jettube]

Mmm... This video made me "hungry".

[@Qrtuop]

YESSSSSSSSS

[@ThisIsReMarkable]

I hope Henry and Alice were ok with their blocks becoming breakfast.

[@PoseidonXIII]

Is it bad this does make me hungry?

[@steepertree]

I would have used rubber cement to stick the blocks to the panel, as it makes it easier to remove them later and return them to the kids. Just don't tell them you were using them as "food," lest they try to eat them.

[@nephildevil]

First I was like "How absurd!" Then I was like I should do a collage like that, just for the absurdity of it all :p

[@theartassignment]

It is very fun. An art assignment I would strongly recommend. Not that I do that.

[@Angie_978]

OMG this is the great grandaddy of memes.

[@ruthiecarroll312]

The poem ... actually worked

[@theartassignment]

It did. I was surprised, too.

[@brt7721]

Do you know how hard this was to watch high?

[@shiao3990]

when are you going to do a Lee Miller sandwich？ :）

[@sneakybokchoy]

In indonesia dada means chest

[@singhprbt]

FYI, DADA means grandfather in hindi.

[@prajaktaswar1754]

WHY IS DADA OVER?

[@kylehenderson9489]

Dada sounds kind of like Nihilism in art. Combating meaning even in itself.

[@theartassignment]

💯

[@Beforeitsgone00]

Dadaism Step 1) on youtube search for the "art assignment" channel. Step 2) play their video "do not try to eat this" with no the volume, on the biggest screen or projector available.

[@DanBlabbers]

that shoutout to memes

[@matthias8122]

I think you have Emmy Hennings' date of death incorrect.

[@kaiigosheva910]

this is the most pretentious thing ive ever watched, i love it

[@actingotaku]

thank you for the bill wurtz nod!!

[@Inspiration_Date]

Okay, I'll eat it.

[@enigmaticbleu]

Still not sure I understand what Dada is.

[@theartassignment]

That seems about right. I don’t think it was ever something to be fully grasped, then or now.

[@ray_ayy]

Ahhhh Bill Wurtz!!

[@nicelis5299]

*Hannover

[@jhairoflores3971]

Wasn’t Duchamp part of the trash art ? And Man Ray in the same wave art as Buñuel and Dali? Sorry it’s just a doubt I have 😊

[@DollyVerseCollector]

I’m so confused...

[@PatrickStaight]

Art must be intentional even if it is intentionally meaningless.

[@bellahispanica]

I need other folks opinions. i have a lot of time at work to listen to videos and podcasts while I work. earlier today i was listening to a puerto rican podcast that was talking about spanish trap and then shortly there after I listened to this video. and a question struck me... "is trap music a modern day expression of dadaism?" please feel free to discuss one way or another. Also @theartassignment this may make a good "in the the case of...." video.

[@lorenabpv]

which podcast is that? it got me curious

[@bellahispanica]

lorenabpv it's called masacote con chente ydrach. It's more or less a comedy podcast of a bunch Puerto Rican guys from various parts of the entertainment industry in PR. Most of the time it's just kinda talking shit about the goings on within the industry. Disclaimer: even if you know Spanish you may have trouble understanding it. Us, Puerto Ricans, talk differently than most other Latinos.

[@lorenabpv]

i'll give it a try. i know spanish, but like, school spanish (i had like eight years of it?) and usually listen to podcasts to keep up with foreign languages. so yeah, at least i'll give it a go, thanks!

[@bellahispanica]

lorenabpv definitely give it a try. Also if you KZbin Puerto Rican slang you can find a bunch of videos on how we speak. It might help. Thank for your interest in our culture.

[@positivechristianidentity5647]

The werid thing is all of the art cooking reminds me of old Christmas cookbooks in America, in which they sculpt there meat or salads and painted thinghs like the bones or lobster with gold or silver spray paint . Yet these old books of America are not , embraced for there art aesthetic s

[@officialharvard751]

Expand dongs are the modern version of the da da poems.

[@redgrits]

How To Basic

[@armalvior]

I guess you have fondness towards Dadaism... This the second video about Dada Art.

[@enycha22]

Dada in Bahasa Indonesia means chest 😂

[@fennecfoxfanatic]

Also do you guys have any opinions on the newest internet subculture of surreal memes? It feels like a resurgence of dadaist ideas because of this strenuous political climate and threat of yet another world war.

[@afreennaaz7626]

Bill wurtz!!