Comments on: Dada รก la Dada http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/01/dada-ala-dada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dada-ala-dada Online News Journal of My Very Small World Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ominous Rabbit http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/01/dada-ala-dada/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Ominous Rabbit Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:50:41 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=2600#comment-104 I love the story, and I'll bet you were a force to be reckoned with. I'm totally tickled by the thought of you two fools running off the rails to make Dadaism something tangible and touchable. Hilarious! You're the best teacher ever! I love the story, and I’ll bet you were a force to be reckoned with. I’m totally tickled by the thought of you two fools running off the rails to make Dadaism something tangible and touchable. Hilarious!

You’re the best teacher ever!

]]> By: Dad http://ominousrabbit.com/2010/01/dada-ala-dada/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Dad Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:13:00 +0000 http://ominousrabbit.com/?p=2600#comment-103 Dear Q. Made me laugh til I cried to read it, even though it's still vivid in my memory. Those team-taugh seminars, mostly with Kent Casper, but also with several other professors, were about the most challenging and fun teaching experiences of my academic career. Dada and Surrealism was perhaps the most outrageous of them all, because the subject matter was so infectious we couldn't resist the performative aspects, including participating in a couple of the student's projects--films, performances etc. Kent in a long robe and a dunce cap declaiming poetry constructed by drawing words out of a bag, while I did something completely unrelated and irrelevant, while bizarre music played on a tapedeck. Probably a good thing the administration didn't really care, in those days, what we were up to. To us, however, it seemed like what education should be about. More fools us. Love, Dad Dear Q. Made me laugh til I cried to read it, even though it’s still vivid in my memory. Those team-taugh seminars, mostly with Kent Casper, but also with several other professors, were about the most challenging and fun teaching experiences of my academic career. Dada and Surrealism was perhaps the most outrageous of them all, because the subject matter was so infectious we couldn’t resist the performative aspects, including participating in a couple of the student’s projects–films, performances etc. Kent in a long robe and a dunce cap declaiming poetry constructed by drawing words out of a bag, while I did something completely unrelated and irrelevant, while bizarre music played on a tapedeck. Probably a good thing the administration didn’t really care, in those days, what we were up to. To us, however, it seemed like what education should be about. More fools us. Love, Dad

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