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"Contrary to prevalent misdefinitions, surrealism is not an aesthetic doctrine, nor a philosophical system, nor a mere literary or artistic school. It is an unrelenting revolt against a civilization that reduces all human aspirations to market values, religious impostures, universal boredom and misery."

(Franklin Rosemont, from "André Breton and the First Principles of Surrealism")


"Surrealism is not a style, nor an aesthetic, nor simply a way of writing or painting, but a universal activity of the mind unlimited to any one particular time or place. Widening and deepening the whole human experience, it is the germ of a new mentality that might revise the old scale of human values in every field to construct a form of society that would realize the full potential of every human being."

(David Gascoyne, from "A Short Survey of Surrealism")
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Passionnement

5 min read
Gherasim Luca was a Romanian-born Surrealist poet, artist and theorist, one of the founders and leading figures of the Romanian Surrealist group. Exiled in Paris around 1950, he adopted French as his literary language and developed a very creative and peculiar approach to Surrealism. In his poetry, he finds new meanings through the disarticulation of language, by semantic hijacking and creative stammering. "Passionnément" (Passionately), published for the first time in 1947 and considered as one of his finest works, is more than a sound poem, it's an alchemical birth of a new language, the language of "mad love" ("l'amour fou").

pas pas paspaspas pas
pasppas ppas pas paspas
le pas pas le faux pas le pas
paspaspas le pas le mau
le mauve le mauvais pas
paspas pas le pas le papa
le mauvais papa le mauve le pas
paspas passe paspaspasse
passe passe il passe il pas pas
il passe le pas du pas du pape
du pape sur le pape du pas du passe
passepasse passi le sur le
le pas le passi passi passi pissez sur
le pape sur papa sur le sur la sur
la pipe du papa du pape pissez en masse
passe passe passi passepassi la passe
la basse passi passepassi la
passio passiobasson le bas
le pas passion le basson et
et pas le basso do pas
paspas do passe passiopassion do
ne do ne domi ne passi ne dominez pas
ne dominez pas vos passions passives ne
ne domino vos passio vos vos
ssis vos passio ne dodo vos
vos dominos d'or
c'est domdommage do dodor
do pas pas ne domi
pas paspasse passio
vos pas ne do ne do ne dominez pas
vos passes passions vos pas vos
vos pas dévo dévorants ne do
ne dominez pas vos rats
pas vos rats
ne do dévorants ne do ne dominez pas
vos rats vos rations vos rats rations ne ne
ne dominez pas vos passions rations vos
ne dominez pas vos ne vos ne do do
minez minez vos nations ni mais do
minez ne do ne mi pas pas vos rats
vos passionnantes rations de rats de pas
pas passe passio minez pas
minez pas vos passions vos
vos rationnants ragoûts de rats dévo
dévorez-les dévo dédo do domi
dominez pas cet a cet avant-goût
de ragoût de pas de passe de
passi de pasigraphie gra phiphie
graphie phie de phie
phiphie phéna phénakiki
phénakisti coco
phénakisticope phiphie
phopho phiphie photo do do
dominez do photo mimez phiphie
photomicrographiez vos goûts
ces poux chorégraphiques phiphie
de vos dégoûts de vos dégâts pas
pas ça passio passion de ga
coco kistico ga les dégâts pas
le pas pas passiopas passion
passion passioné né né
il est né de la né
de la néga ga de la néga
de la négation passion gra cra
crachez cra crachez sur vos nations cra
de la neige il est il est né
passioné né il est né
à la nage à la rage il
est né à la né à la nécronage cra rage il
il est né de la né de la néga
néga ga cra crachez de la né
de la ga pas néga négation passion
passionné nez pasionném je
je t'ai je t'aime je
je je jet je t'ai jetez
je t'aime passionném t'aime
je t'aime je je jeu passion j'aime
passionné éé ém émer
émerger aimer je je j'aime
émer émerger é é pas
passi passi éééé ém
éme émersion passion
passionné é je
je t'ai je t'aime je t'aime
passe passio ô passio
passio ô ma gr
ma gra cra crachez sur les rations
ma grande ma gra ma té
ma té ma gra
ma grande ma té
ma terrible passion passionnée
je t'ai je terri terrible passio je
je je t'aime
je t'aime je t'ai je
t'aime aime aime je t'aime
passionné é aime je
t'aime passioném
je t'aime
passionnément aimante je
t'aime je t'aime passionnément
je t'ai je t'aime passionné né
je t'aime passionné
je t'aime passionnément je t'aime
je t'aime passio passionnément

I highly recommend listening to it in the author's voice: ubu.artmob.ca/sound/luca_ghera…

(Another journal entry about sound poetry: catalinprecup.deviantart.com/j… )
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Surface

1 min read
"[...] André Breton would not say "Surrealistic painting", he would say "Surrealism in painting". [...] Surrealism is psychology, it is philosophy, it is a spiritual way, but it is not an aesthetic. Surrealism is not interested in actually creating any kind of aesthetic. It was drawn as an element from various different artists, but it does not exist [as an art form*]."

(Excerpt from "The Surrealist Conspirator: An Interview With Jan Svankmajer" by Wendy Jackson)



*my note
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To Make A Dadaist Poem

Take a newspaper.
Take some scissors.
Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem.
Cut out the article.
Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag.
Shake gently.
Next take out each cutting one after the other.
Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
The poem will resemble you.
And there you are--an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.

(Tristan Tzara, 1920)

Following Tzara's instructions compose your own dadaist poem or use an online dadaist poetry generator like this flash application that "makes poems" out of newspaper articles redstudio.moma.org/interactive… . You can post it in a comment below. Have fun!
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Karawane

1 min read
In 1916, at the "Cabaret Voltaire" (Zürich, in neutral Switzerland), Hugo Ball, a dadaist poet and artist, began performing nonsense sound poems. This means poems without words, or abstract poems. In order to create them, the language is divided into its abstract parts (syllables and individual letters) and then rearranged to form meaningless sounds.
In the same year Ball wrote his famous phonetic poem "Karawane":


jolifanto bambla ô falli bambla
grossiga m'pfa habla horem
égiga goramen
higo bloiko russula huju
hollaka hollala
anlogo bung
blago bung
blago bung
bosso fataka
ü üü ü
schampa wulla wussa ólobo
hej tatta gôrem
eschige zunbada
wulubu ssubudu uluw ssubudu
tumba ba- umf
kusagauma
ba - umf
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What is not Surrealism? by CatalinPrecup, journal

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