Official Declaration regarding The Schwitters’ Army Reunion

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 8 April 2022, Kadour issued "Official Declaration regarding The Schwitters’ Army Reunion" and thus created the event that will take place on 9 & 10 September 2022. The signing, which took place in Montreal, Quebec, was witnessed by Christopher Byrne, V.S.A. ex officio, Registrar of Correspondence, Resplendent Extraordinaire and Quartermaster Dr. David Rushton, V.S.A., Custodian and Caretaker of The Collection. Rushton, unable to be physically present at the signing of the document, did so in absentia per viam electrica avibus. An official copy was sent to the the Ephemera Archive of the collection (SA142SW22EPM) and a personal copy was sent to Rushton.