website of Dadara, featuring projects like Dreamyourtopia, Fools Ark and Love,Peace and Terror, sculptures and paintings, flyers, record covers and other projects

‘Life inside a pixel’ has its origins in Dadara’s Solipmission Installation at Burning Man, where he was locked up 24/7 inside a big black box under the hot desert sun. It was probably Dadara’s most intense experience ever: a Solipmission Impossible.

Dadara began his artistic career in the early nineties designing flyers and record covers, and doing live-paintings for the then burgeoning electronic dance scene.

From Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia to Exchanghibition Bank, Dadara asks of the audience to follow his creative vision, to participate in not only art, but these mirrored examinations of our collective reality.

Part of the Eigenwijs Gekrijs ( Stubborn Squealing ) exhibition at Reflex. In cooperation with B&W for Blue Room I also designed screaming baby loudspeakers; 100 pairs and 10 hand painted pairs.

An initiation into Future Realities. A collaborative art and virtual reality project for Burning Man 2017 by Dadara & WeMakeVR. A crew going on a mission into Unknown Realities is locked up inside a big monolithic black box during Burning Man. They will paint a virtual Black Rock City on the inside walls without viewing the outside.

In 2010 Dadara started his own Bank as an artist - the Exchanghibition Bank - in times when the government had no money for the Arts, but billions to bail out banks. A project exploring the Value(s) of Art and Money.

A presentation held about the project end of September at a Pecha Kucha night at IMA Design Village in berlin can be found at this link: http://pechakucha.de/webplayer/PK_15/07_Dadara.html

In between, within, and without Dadara’s Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia, there is the body of homo sacer: the bare life of the border crosser, non-citizen, refugee, prisoner, torture victim, death row inmate, other and dialectical necessity of the full-fledged citizen.

Getting Lost in the Beauty of Chaos. KochxBos Gallery in Amsterdam. 22nd of Jan - 19th of Feb 2022