This is a simple timeline that outlines the DADA movement.

The time is 1916, WWI or the war to end all wars (1914 - 1918) has claimed millions of deaths.

Some flee to the neutral country of Switzerland - to Zurich

This is where the DADA movement is born in the Cabaret Voltaire a club started by Hugo Ball a German, a poet.

The Cabaret Voltaire becomes the epicenter of protest initially then as the number of members grew, the protest extended itself to not just the war but to conventional thought and method.

The DADAists were anti-artists not making art but anti-art. They engaged in social commentary, celebrated a return to nature, and generally decided to break all the rules.

A manifesto is published LINK

1918 - the war ends - they go out into the world

-New york
-Belin
-Paris
-Cologne
-The Netherlands

The work that follows this time begins to use the element of chance, a touch of absurdism, and a little physical computing...

Jean Arp 1886 - 1966

Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance (1916-1917)


L.H.O.O.Q (1919)

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) LINK



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