Global index of the decay of the aura of language, the Dadameter aims at measuring our distance to Dada. It was inspired by the work of the french writer Raymond Roussel.

The project is a satire about the recent transmutation of language into a global market ruled by Google et al. and uses the most up-to-date technologies of control to draw cartographies of language at large scale.

The 9th international festival for performative arts Amorph!08 is organized in Paris and Helsinki in May-August, 2008. The organizer is Artists’ Association Muu and artistic curator vocal and performance artist Juha Valkeapää.

Amorph!08 has two phases. The first phase takes place on May 26 - June 8, 2008, in Paris, where it belongs to Printemps (Im)médiat!, Institut Finlandais coordinated part of 100 % Finlande - en France - printemps 2008. The second phase is organized on August 18 - 8 September, 2008, in Helsinki.

Amorph!08 is a meeting point. Participating artists represent the wide field of experimental performative arts: performance art, dance, sound & music, video & web art. The theme is public spaces of Paris and Helsinki. The curator has chosen four Finnish and four French artists, and made four pairs of artists. They are Charlie Jeffery-Jouni Partanen, Carole Douillard-Essi Kausalainen, Viviana Moin-Mimosa Pale, Christophe Bruno-Pessi Parviainen. Each pair will get a public place - flea market, park, river or sea side - to work on. The Parisian places are located near to Mains d’Œuvres, Khiasma and La Générale des Sevres; in Helsinki the central place is Hietalahti. The results of the pairs’ work - performance, installation, presentation, lecture - are shown during the festival weekend.

May 5 to 14, 2008: my new project, the Dadameter, is exhibited in Madrid at the Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid pour l’art contemporain et le nouveau cinéma, in the section “Data Meanings” which includes works by Christophe Bruno, Claude Closky, mi_ga, JoDi, Riccardo Iglesias, Joan Leandre, Michael Takeo Magruder, Rybn, Übermorgen. Locations: Complejo El Aguila, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spanish Cinematheque, Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto Cervantes.
 

The Google Adwords Happening is included in the selection of Antisocial Notworking curated by Geoff Cox on Arnolfini, contemporary arts organisation in Bristol (UK)