Official Declaration
making
The Nithsdale Hotel

The Official Hotel
of The Schwitters’ Army

The Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art operates through a series of declarations issued by the Convenor, Curator and Representative of The Schwitters’ Army Ric Kasini Kadour, V.S.A. These documents are signed and witnessed and generate ephemera which is placed in the archive. Declarations are both real documents and pieces of performance art in the vein of Yves Klein's Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. It is an act of history making by documenting an event and placing that documentation in archives.

On the 17th of February 2020, Kadour issued "Official Declaration making The Nithsdale Hotel the Official Hotel of The Schwitters’ Army" for reasons set out in the document. Seven copies of the Declaration were signed.

The Declaration also sets out a ritual to be performed by Veterans of the Schwitters Army upon their visit to Sanquhar.

The signing was witnessed by Niall Thomson, Recruitor and Patron at the Nithsdale Hotel and Lee Dunsmore, Bar Man at the Nithsdale Hotel. A signed copy was presented to Nithsdale Owner, Michael Argue. Signed copies were included in the Ephemera Archive of the Collection (SA138SW20EPM) and in the archives of Kolaj Institute, and personal copies were given to the signatories.