Hannah Höch: The Simultaneity of Perception - Constructivism. Hannah Höch was the only female member of the Berlin Dada group to be active as an artist and as early as 1929 she underscored the point at which the pioneering thinking of the age had arrived: I would like to blur the clear boundaries (. . .) I want to show that small is also large and large also small; merely change in the vantage point from which we make our judgments, and every concept loses its validity. I would further like to formulate the suggestion that there are millions upon millions of justifiable views other than the views and opinions that you and I hold. The scientific background for the Dadaists’ simultaneity of perception was the replacement of the Newtonian perspective through Einsteins theory of relativity, whereby every thing exists only in context with and in relation to other things. In 1920 Dadasoph Richard Huelsenbeck therefore postulated the “simultaneity of values as well”. This figure of thought and this type of perception emerge in early Gestalt therapy as a combination of psychoanalysis and Gestalt/field theory, and in 1951 Paul Goodman referred to them as the “contextual method. The experience of the simultaneity of perception, disparateness, and disconnectedness was also reflected in art. As an example, I would like to cite Jakob van Hoddi’s famous poem “Weltende” (The End of the World). (...) it can also be found in the first anthology of Expressionist poems published in 1920 by Kurt Pinthus and entitled “Menschheitsdämmerung” (The Dawn of Humanity): The hat flies off the burghers pointed head The air resounds as if with screaming. Roofers crash and break in two. Along the coast – one reads – the tide is rising. The storm has come, wild oceans are surging ashore to crush the thick embankments. Most people have the sniffles. Trains are falling off the bridges. (from B. Bocian. Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893-1933. Expressionism, Psychoanalysis, Judaism) youtube/watch?v=B9YlUh1rfOs&feature=related
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