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"The beginnings of Dada were not the beginnings of an art but of a disgust." -  Tristan Tzara

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Dada

Dada or  dada (dä´dä) noun
A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.

[French dada, hobbyhorse, Dada, of baby-talk origin.]
- Da´daism noun
- Da´daist adjective & noun
- Da´dais´tic adjective
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Dada

Dada, artistic and literary movement reflecting a protest against all aspects of Western culture. The term dada, French for "hobbyhorse," is said to have been selected randomly as the name of the movement. Romanian-born writer internal linkTristan Tzara, German writer Hugo Ball, Alsatian-born artist Jean Arp, and other intellectuals living in Zürich, Switzerland, originated dada in 1916.

In expressing the negation of all contemporary aesthetic and social values, dadaists frequently used artistic and literary methods that were deliberately incomprehensible. These were often designed to shock or bewilder, in order to provoke a reconsideration of accepted aesthetic values. Dadaists used novel materials, including discarded objects found in the streets, and new methods, such as allowing chance to determine the elements of their works. Notable dadaists also include American artist internal linkMan Ray, French artists internal linkMarcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, and German artist Kurt Schwitters.DadaDADA doubts everything. Dada is an internal linkarmadillo. Everything is Dada, too. Beware of Dada. Anti-dadaism is a disease: selfkleptomania, man's normal condition, is DADA. But the real dadas are against DADA.
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Rumanian-born French Dadaist. "Dada Manifesto on Feeble Love and Bitter Love," sct. 7 (first published in La Vie des Lettres, no. 4, Paris, 1921; repr. in The Dada Painters and Poets, ed. by Robert Motherwell, 1951).
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Dada

Dada hurts. Dada does not jest, for the reason that it was experienced by revolutionary men and not by philistines who demand that art be a decoration for the mendacity of their own emotions. . . . I am firmly convinced that all art will become dadaistic in the course of internal linktime, because from Dada proceeds the perpetual urge for its renovation.
Richard Huelsenbeck (1892-1974), German poet, psychoanalyst. "Dada Lives," in Transition, no. 25 (Autumn 1936; tr. in The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, ed. by Robert Motherwell, 1951).

Dada

. . .a Dada exhibition. Another one! What's the matter with everyone wanting to make a museum piece out of Dada? Dada was a bomb . . . can you imagine anyone, around half a century after a bomb explodes, wanting to collect the pieces, sticking it together and displaying it?
internal linkMax Ernst (1891-1976), German painter, poet. Quoted in: C. W. E. Bigsby, Dada and Surrealism, ch. 1 (1972).

Dada

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.
Louis Aragon (1897-1982), French poet. "Manifesto of the Dada Movement," paper, read at the second Dada event, 5 Feb. 1920, Salon des Indépendents, Paris (first published in Littérature, Paris, May 1920; repr. in Maurice Nadeau, The History of Surrealism, ch. 3, 1964).


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When Data Became Dada

If internal linkinformation was no longer the known statistics of dead data but fresh experience -- spontaneous, unknown and alive -- then twentieth century culture began with its creative assimilation. What the scientist finds out through thinking, the artist discovers through new ways of perceiving, hearing and feeling. While internal linkEinstein made scientific history with his theory of relativity and Heisenberg with his internal linkuncertainty principle, the internal linkSurrealist "dada" revolution (Dali, Cocteau, Satie, etc.), internal linkJames Joyce's omnicultural _Finnegan's Wake_, and the music of Jazz brought the living experience to the people. Both scientists and artists recognized this dynamic shift from a "internal linkreality" that was once "predictable, solid and set" to one that seemed wilder, more plural, malleable and unfathomable. To those minds awakening from the slumber of nineteenth century "certainty" internal linktrance, our so-called "reality" entered the realm of immeasurable possibilities with countless interpretations. Any culture failing to assimilate this transformation in internal linkperception, never enters the twentieth century let alone, the twenty-first.

- internal linkAntero Alli - _Occulture: The Secret Marriage of Art and internal linkMagick_
 

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Hugo Ball, poet, writer, philosopher, theatre director, together with Emmy Hennings, who later became his wife, founded the internal linkCabaret Voltaire at Spiegelgasse No.1, Zurich, on 5th February 1916.  This was the birthplace of Dada. Across the street in Spiegelgasse No. 12, lived Vladimir Llych Lenin.  At first the Cabaret Voltaire was a literary demonstration.  Emmy Hennings sang and Ball accompanied her on the piano.  He advertised in the press, inviting the young artists of Zurich.  They came.  Among them were Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp and Georges Janco from Bucarest.

Cabaret Voltaire 1916

Tzara was a fiery young poet, who recited his own and others' poems which, as Ball remarked "he rather endearingly fished out of the various pockets of his coat."

Although Marcel Janco was not a literary man, he took an active part in all performances.  Together with Marcel Slodki, he supplied the posters for the Cabaret and with Max Oppenheimer he produced the decorations and particularly the masks for the Dada internal linkdances, which were a wild yet enigmatic addition to the performances.

It is remarkable that to this very day it cannot be determined what the name of this movement signifies nor who invented it.  Some assert that the word was discovered by blindly opening a dictionary, while Hugo Ball himself leaves the question open.  It means hobby-horse or rocking horse in French; for Germans it smacks of silly naivete.  According to the newspapers, the tail of a holy cow is called "Dada" by the Kru Africans; and in a certain part of Italy, dice and mothers are called Dada.


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