Oskar Schlemmer

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There was once a group of three.
They liked geometry.
It had to be simple,
and have no detail,
not even a pimple.
If it did to them it would fail.

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Camille, who is 10 years old, wrote this poem after she looked at some images and videos of choreography by Oskar Schlemmer. She wrote this poem while she was working with Snow City Arts teaching artist Dan Godston (http://www.snowcityarts.org).

Human Dollz - Crash! Boom! Bau!

What are they? An art or a design object? A band? A ballet? Icons? A Bauhaus irony?

Inspired by Oskar Schlemmers “Triadic Ballet” from 1922, three exceptional figures are motioning themselves in costumes, which were manufactured entirely out of items found at hardware stores.

The group Human Dollz consists of Pyramid Doll, Sphere Doll, and Cube Doll, and is active in the fields of music, video, performance and fashion.

after looking at Bauhaus Stairway, by Oskar Schlemmer

I stalk.
I lie,
say I don’t.
Say I don’t mind
being close on this stairway
where degenerates merge
into mass transit as tenuous as paper.

For others Stairway is image.
Just image?
Backs of heads
moving up
/ down
one-way to nowhere,
where body is screen, agape like mixed messages.

I wear orange shirt,
loathe orange—
its relations with pumpkins and Halloween
and _______________ in scary movies
follow compulsory wince and eventual taunting:
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you.

"The text of Johnny Monomyth, written by my friend Noah Berlatsky, involved a careful and fairly seamless satirical appropriation of visionary capitalist writing from the end of the millennium. My artwork attempted to similarly appropriate motifs of classic modernist design, but my primary inspiration was the drawings of Oskar Schlemmer, and, in particular, his plans for a stage theater of mechanized puppets in which the lead characters tower over the scene in physical size.

"Some Knowledge of Schlemmer Is Required" by Patrick Lichty
Machinima, approx. 3 minutes