1] Familiarize yourself with the dadaist manifestos by Tzara, Breton, Picabia, and Huelsenbeck in the books "Dadas on Art" edited by Lucy Lippart and "The Dada Painters and Poets" edited by Robert Motherwell.
2] Write a dadaist manifesto.
3] Familiarize yourself with the "Manifestoes of Surrealism" by Andre Breton.
4] Write a surrealist manifesto.
Assignment #1: The Inexpressible
Assignment #5: Etudes: Algorithms of negation, elision, and substitution
Assignment #7: Automatic Writing
shmoetry
abandon prose all ye who enter here