One hundred years ago, in the midst of World War I, young artists in Zurich and Berlin were banging the drum and founding a revolutionary literary-artistic movement.
Their protest was directed at bourgeois mendacity, authoritarianism and war enthusiasm, in other words, at the very normal attitudes of their contemporaries.
Their means were provocation, anarchic purposelessness, and blithe illogic. A language abused and perverted can be dispensed with. Philipp Hunscha, Matthias Scheuring and Michael Quast give an impression of how the Dadaists agitated their audience 100 years ago with bizarre word storms, plays, manifestos and drum rolls. "Only Dada is the savior from misery and gloom! Put your money in Dada!" Text source and more information about the event: http://www.stalburg.de/event/ba---umf--100-Years-Dada
Their means were provocation, anarchic purposelessness, and blithe illogic. A language abused and perverted can be dispensed with. Philipp Hunscha, Matthias Scheuring and Michael Quast give an impression of how the Dadaists agitated their audience 100 years ago with bizarre word storms, plays, manifestos and drum rolls. "Only Dada is the savior from misery and gloom! Put your money in Dada!" Text source and more information about the event: http://www.stalburg.de/event/ba---umf--100-Years-Dada
