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- Niamh McNicholas
Niamh
McNicholas
The Absurdist
The Absurdist is a newspaper designed to make the viewer think and reflect on today’s world and our everyday news. Dadaism was born in the late 1910s, after World War 1, as an answer to the bleak and depressing social, political and economic climate, and uses ridiculousness and silliness to poke fun at day to day life and bring some light-heartedness back to people’s lives. The Absurdist was created using the core principals of Dadaism: humour, the bizarre, and collage to create articles and images that reflect our headlines, and our also bleak and depressing social, political and economic climate.
By using Tristan Tzara’s (one of the main founders of Dadaism) Dada poem exercise, in which you cut out individual words from an article and place them back out, in their new shuffled order, revealing the new sequence and “truth”, and by using these new articles, made from headlining news, and the imagery that appears within, the nonsensical collages are created. The corresponding articles are featured, with selected wording and imagery highlighted, and the rest of it concealed or hidden in some way, to highlight the concealment of truth within the media. These articles paired with the outrageous collages provide a critical analysis of the news we are presented with every day.
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