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When David Lloyd Olson was a teenager, his nerdy, niche extracurricular wasn’t Esperanto Club or playing Quidditch. He went for something weirder, creating the Modern Post Neo Dada Movement, a ...
This is Dada in action or, as the members of Pointless Theatre Company call it in their enjoyably, boisterously academic performance piece written by David Lloyd Olson: “Hugo Ball, a Dada Puppet ...
It was 100 years ago this year when Hugo Ball chose a nonsense word to label the anti-art movement of World War I - dada. At the Cabaret Voltaire, he gathered with other artists, poets ...
"Switzerland was a birdcage surrounded by lions,” wrote the German poet Hugo Ball ... our view of Dada as an art phenomenon, rather than a literary one. Ball’s most famous contribution ...
One hundred years ago today, on July 14, 1916, an avant-garde European artistic and literary movement called Dadaism—or simply Dada ... poet Hugo Ball—who had co-founded a popular artists ...
Just over 100 years ago, on Feb. 5, 1916, a small group of artists ... would Hugo Ball say? Maravelis is blunt on this charge, as only a Dadaist could be: “For all practical purposes, Dada ...
In Dada Manifesto, Hugo Ball lays out the movement’s anti-art goals and principles (if you ... How does one become famous? By saying dada. With a noble gesture and delicate propriety.
Words were used to craft patriotic platitudes sugar-coating the horrors of World War I, so at Cabaret Voltaire Hugo Ball ... art off its pedestal. These free-form activities acquired the name Dada ...
Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that ... How does one become famous? By saying dada. With a noble gesture and delicate propriety. Till one goes crazy.
The artist Adam Pendleton is difficult to ... The personal canon he would cobble together ultimately included Zurich Dada ringleader Hugo Ball, experimental writer Gertrude Stein, abstract ...