#38 - Surrealism, Dadaism, Chance, and Humour

About surrealism, dadaism, making sense of the nonsensical, automatism (and the potential of the unpredictable), Sigmund Freud and the unconscious, manifesto writing, distorted realism, Guillaume Apollinaire, communism and André Breton, artwork theft and secret footnotes, Salvador Dalí, seriousness, process versus outcome, René Magritte, surrealist in cinema, Monty Python and the Marx Brothers, playfulness and humour, the difference between surrealism and the surreal, David Lynch’s Eraserhead, abstraction versus non—objectivism, monotony and randomness, artistic experimentation, Gustave Flaubert, eliminating possibility, martial arts, and fucking around.  Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). Recorded on October 1, 2021. http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/