Dadaism Project

1. Dadaism Project By Yr1 Photography

2. Collage based upon a news story Life Without Goods Made in China a Challenge

3. “Now how one woman and her family dealt with Chinese imports. In January 2005, business writer Sara Bongiorni made an unusual New Years resolution. She and her family pledged to spend the year without buying anything from China. She's chronicled that experience in a new book, "A Year Without Made in China." Ms. SARA BONGIORNI (Author): At the outset the rule was just avoiding things that had the label Made in China, or if we happened to know that there was a Chinese component in something, we would avoid that too. Of course oftentimes you can't know that, but we decided we would just set the bar there. So in that sense we set the bar comparatively low and yet this experiment absolutely turns a daily life upside down. It was everything from, you know, mundane ordinary errands like running to the store for new tennis shoes for one of the kids or buying birthday candles became days or sometimes weeks-long sagas that didn't necessarily have a satisfactory resolution in the end.” (LINDA WERTHEIMER, host) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12056295

4. www.upenn.edu www.echinacities.com www.chinaexpat.com

5. The decision was to create a real collage, not using any computer program as for example Photoshop or In Design. A few images were found on the internet then printed and cut, and many others was found in magazines or in catalogues. On the collage China, like a factory, manufacturers the Earth itself too. The label of the Earth symbolizes the overproduction, and the children symbolize ironically the possibility of the impossible, as we’re not too far away to be producing our children in China as well.