Zurich
Dada was born in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. A movement was established which has outlived all war conflicts and social changes. The exhibition The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire will open the 17th Prague Writers' Festival at the Gallery Smečky on 3 June.
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The Birth of Dada in Zurich Zurich is generally regarded as the birthplace of Dada, though, as Duchamp later put it, “dada ‘had been in the air’ a long time before.” What happened in Zurich, then, was perhaps not so much the invention of a movement as the consolidation of a mood. |
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Tzara: Seven Dada Manifestos (1916-1920) Manifesto of Mr. Antipyrine |
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Emmy Hennings ‘Song to the Dawn’ & ‘Morphine’ |
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Tristan Tzara on Marcel Janco nerves zigzag like a cosmic harmonica pull pull the line through foliage and pauses |
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Marcel Janco talking about Dada Cursory accounts of the Dada movement are consistent in their claim that it was basically a literary enterprise, occurring in Zürich at the time of the First World War and founded by a group of dissenters dedicated to principles of negativism, destruction and anti-art. |
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Hugo Ball: Dada Fragments (1916-1917) March 3, 1916 — Introduce symmetries and rhythms instead of principles. Contradict the existing world orders…. |
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