Wolf Vostell

I was just looking back through posts from the last few weeks that i havent seen yet (particularly Nie's- lots of good artist!)
In Nie's post about this one (Wolf Vostell) I thought the word

Décollage

was a very interesting term!

 Very sorry if someone has written more about it previously but i haven't read all the posts yet...

The idea of taking apart an image, or a group of images which have been layered together to create something new. Obviously this is something we have been thinking about doing with our own collage- tearing into an deconstructing parts. 

Since this term is looking at using a found image where the artist is not the one who originally layered the images together, perhaps we should think about creating the layering of images in a mechanical way, not thinking about aethstetics (as the original DADA artists did) but then working back into the layered piece we have created by tearing into it and using that part to work a message into it.... not sure how mush sense that makes yet but ye :p

A more specific idea would be to layer the images over one another, using entire pages or images, perhaps in an order of people , police, government (just realised that i spelt this wrong in my stencil piece grrrr...) or backward or maybe all mixed in together, and then sorting them into the heirachy thing we have going on in the text pieces though decollage and maybe resticking some of the things we tear off, though this may defeat the point and we shouldnt need to if we use enough layers.... COMMENTS????

I've been interested in this for a long time but didnt know this word so thank you Nie! :)

Jo