British English subtitles for clip: File:Fabian Tompsett at DADA 99-ojo jubiliejaus paminėjimo renginių Alytuje.ogv

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We as a group of people now should split into two groups

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Fabian will run his workshop here

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Another workshop downstairs will be run by Asim – he speaks a lot

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Fabian‘s - almost wordless

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he‘s tired from speaking

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he‘ll show something he worked on some years

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and what I had no time to understand yet

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I'm going to stand up and also look around to see all your faces.

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And really it's quite impressive, you've actually filled the room.

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Standing room only. So thank you all for coming.

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Firstly I want to say that although I do art 

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I am very suspicious of the social identity of the artist.

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I want to live in a society where people are doing art

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all the time in their daily lives

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and it's not the preserve of a particular group of people.

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In relationship to Dada one of the things I have been looking at

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are a group of people starting off in Cologne

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who became known as the Figurative Constructivists.

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a little bit later, by the end of the twenties.

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But they were there at the beginning of Dada

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They had dealings with Max Ernst

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They also when Lissitzky was in Germany

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when he came over from Russia they met up with him

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and they got influenced by constructivism

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which they took on board

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They were also involved with the debate in Germany

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about what was happening following the Russian Revolution

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and the setting up of Proletkult

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It brought together in terms of culture

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a very broad range from the arts,

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drama, theatre, painting through to science.

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So, the whole is gamut there

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The idea was developed by Alexander Bogdanov

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one of the theorists of this.

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He said you can bring all this together

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You don't have to have complete separation

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It is useful to have focused activity

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So if you were a practicing artist

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you could get very much into the material

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understand how to deal with paint and the application of paint

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It is not to say that that is bad,

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it's more to say

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How can we relate that to other areas of activity?

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How can we have better cross-over?

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Rather than this kind of silo of different sets of knowledge

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and people being very constrained

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which is what a lot of the academic world is like

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That's what they were talking about 100 years ago

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So that is an ongoing issue

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One of the things that the Figurative Constructivists got involved with

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was the presentation of statistical information

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what we call nowadays infographics

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lot of this is stuff that you see on the internet

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The sort of thing you see on the internet

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It is very easy to accept things on the internet as just being there

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just being part of what's there when you open up your computer

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A lot of this goes back precisely to

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what came out of Dada, what came out of constructivism

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It is a way of representing information that is statistical

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in a way that's very visual

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Doesn't rely on language

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They developed a whole theory of that

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A lot of it relates to some of the discussions going on in science

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Particularly with some of the feminist scientists

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when they start to question how science is socially constructed

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They are looking at the scientific practice

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in relation to the apparatus of science

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Well ,the same can be done with Art

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For instance you have Virginia Woolf

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when she writes A Room of My Own

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You don't get women artists for a very long period time

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because they did not have the apparatus

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in which they could develop their own way of being

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they didn't have a room of their own

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where they could develop their concepts

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they were spending all their time rushing around

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doing stuff in the household for other people.

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Whether it was for men or for children

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There is already a parallel going on between

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discussions Science studies and discussions in Art studies

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I think it's very useful to bring that together

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They were also very much involved in education.

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Pedagogy was a central of Proletkult

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and it was part of this whole ethos

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of presenting information which was easily understandable

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One of the things I have brought along

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is what we might call the new cubism

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These are cubes. Some of you might have come across

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- you'll get an opportunity to see these close up - 

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meeple a representation of a very basic idea

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to represent a human being

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One of the things I have also been involved in

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using games particularly Guy Debord's Game of War

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as a way of representing struggle

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Looking at the way the whole Eurogame phenomenon

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which has developed over the last twenty-thirty years

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The aesthetic is very much like the constructivists

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they move towards designing a game that anybody in any language

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you don't have written instructions, but images

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very basic images based on the same concept

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Of reducing things down to things which are really simple

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This is a move towards constructivist games

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It is taking part of pedagogical element

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that was emerging out of constructivism

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and re-interpreting it in a very contemporary fashion

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Thank you