We’re back dear listeners and this time we’ve decided to go all Modernist on you with an episode dedicated to the Dada art movement!
Join us on this weird and wonderful Dadaist trip through inter-war Europe and New York as we explore avant-garde art, sound poetry, performance, photomontage, and the mystery of the world’s most famous urinal.
Artworks:
Karawane – Hugo Ball
https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/news/3001/Salonen-premiere-of-Karawane-to-launch-Creative-Chair-position-at-Tonhalle-Zurich/
Voices of dada
https://open.spotify.com/album/3LuikTBq28HdPlK2DVuUCb?si=JRffH5zFTGKWjHR2hydW8w
Dada manifesto – Hugo Ball
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dada_Manifesto_(1916,_Hugo_Ball)
First International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920
http://www.cocosse-journal.org/2014/06/the-first-international-dada-fair.html
Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany – Hannah Hoch
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/hannah-hoch-cut-with-the-dada-kitchen-knife-through-the-last-weimar-beer-belly-cultural-epoch-in-germany
Staatshäupter - Hannah Hoch
http://cdn.artobserved.com/2014/03/Hannah-H%C3%B6ch_Whitechapel-Gallery_Staatsh%C3%A4upter-Heads-of-State-1930.jpg
Indian Dancer – Hannah Hoch
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/37360
Untitled (From an Ethnographic Museum), 1929 – Hannah Hoch
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/gallery/8183/dada-africa-dialogue-with-the-other/2
Fountain – Marcel Duchamp (Maybe)
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-duchamps-urinal-changed-art-forever
Bicycle Wheel – Marcel Duchamp
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81631
Further reading:
https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I
https://www.dw.com/en/africa-and-world-war-i/a-17573462#:~:text=A%20million%20people%20died%20in%20East%20Africa%20alone%20during%20World%20War%20I.&text=Some%2010%2C000%20South%20African%20soldiers,Africa%20which%20honors%20their%20sacrifice.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/dada#:~:text=Dada%20was%20an%20art%20movement,satirical%20and%20nonsensical%20in%20nature
https://www.minniemuse.com/articles/musings/the-cabaret-volatire
https://www.theartstory.org/movement/dada/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/09/hannah-hoch-art-punk-whitechapel
https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8931/hannah-hoch-reimagines-indigenous-african-artefacts
Further listening:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AUeo6HFPySTJWCjz2cvDX?si=k3KgycUNSCSegmPQl8otKg
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LFk1IeayMcApEkVhuQfEG?si=sIrCG2QXRea_RoeiyVptaQ
Further viewing:
Documentary - Dada: The original art rebels (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed1NfFMkYmE
Documentary - Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain (1978) -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBaS8fgwNs
Marie Osmond reciting Karawane for Ripley's Believe It Or Not - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E87lHNl6HnE
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