Dada began on February 5, 1916, when Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, and others launched the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Cabaret Voltaire would eventually become the stuff of legend, joined by the short-lived but no less significant Gallery Dada. Even as Dada spread throughout Europe and the world, its heart was always in Zurich.
This book honors the centennial of Dada by telling for the first time the full story of its genesis and the role played by Zurich and its vibrant community of artists in its creation and flourishing. It sets the early years of Dada firmly in the city’s historical and cultural context and reveals the intellectual and social background that were crucial to the fermenting artistic ideas that culminated in Dada. It goes on to trace the explosion of Dada into a worldwide phenomenon that took in such artists and intellectuals as Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, and Man Ray.
Richly illustrated, this book will stand as the definitive account of the origins of Dada and its little-considered ties to one particular, spectacular city.
This book honors the centennial of Dada by telling for the first time the full story of its genesis and the role played by Zurich and its vibrant community of artists in its creation and flourishing. It sets the early years of Dada firmly in the city’s historical and cultural context and reveals the intellectual and social background that were crucial to the fermenting artistic ideas that culminated in Dada. It goes on to trace the explosion of Dada into a worldwide phenomenon that took in such artists and intellectuals as Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, and Man Ray.
Richly illustrated, this book will stand as the definitive account of the origins of Dada and its little-considered ties to one particular, spectacular city.
Table of Contents
Genesis Dada
Oliver Kornhoff
“Dada is beautiful like the night, that cradles a young day in her arms.” On Genesis Dada and 100 years of Dada since Zurich
Adrian Notz
Genesis Dada
Raimund Meyer
Cabaret Voltaire. More than a farce of nothingness
Tanja Buchholz
Galerie Dada
Mysticism
Friedrich Kurt Benndorf
Mysticism
Psyche
Tobias Ballweg and Katja Cattapan
Dada Psychology
Philosophy
Robert Pfaller
How would it be if fists could speak?
Dada and Philosophy
Hayat Erdogan
Critique of Impractical
Reason
Literature
Stefan Zweifel
Nefer-Kheperu-Wa-En-Re.
The Solar Sail of Black Madness
Art
Astrid von Asten
Arp and Dada – A “win-win situation”
Tobia Bezzola
Attention Museum! Dada is not a style!
Language
Eric Robertson
“Hollaka Hollala Anlogo Bung.”
Dada’s Subversive Glossolalia
Soirée
Dieter Mersch
Research Institute Dada Soirees
The Cabaret Voltaire and its Consequences
Africa
Hannes Böhringer
Becoming Simple
Mask
Sylvie Kyeck
Behind the Dada Mask.
Why Masks Became a Central Element of Dada Zurich’s Stage Performances
Dance
Mona de Weerdt
“Abstract” and “Cubist” (Mask) Dances
On The Dada Stages
Revolt
Nicola Behrens
Revolt
Jultta Mattern
Arcadia – The Longing That Stays,
Monte Verità and the Life Reform Movement
Brand
Juri Steiner
The Name of the Lily. Dada as a Brand
Maike Steinkamp
Infecting the World with Dada
The Dada Zurich Journals as Mouthpieces
Of the Movement
Jürgen Häusler
Dada as Brand? Positively. Not.
Oliver Kornhoff
“Dada is beautiful like the night, that cradles a young day in her arms.” On Genesis Dada and 100 years of Dada since Zurich
Adrian Notz
Genesis Dada
Raimund Meyer
Cabaret Voltaire. More than a farce of nothingness
Tanja Buchholz
Galerie Dada
Mysticism
Friedrich Kurt Benndorf
Mysticism
Psyche
Tobias Ballweg and Katja Cattapan
Dada Psychology
Philosophy
Robert Pfaller
How would it be if fists could speak?
Dada and Philosophy
Hayat Erdogan
Critique of Impractical
Reason
Literature
Stefan Zweifel
Nefer-Kheperu-Wa-En-Re.
The Solar Sail of Black Madness
Art
Astrid von Asten
Arp and Dada – A “win-win situation”
Tobia Bezzola
Attention Museum! Dada is not a style!
Language
Eric Robertson
“Hollaka Hollala Anlogo Bung.”
Dada’s Subversive Glossolalia
Soirée
Dieter Mersch
Research Institute Dada Soirees
The Cabaret Voltaire and its Consequences
Africa
Hannes Böhringer
Becoming Simple
Mask
Sylvie Kyeck
Behind the Dada Mask.
Why Masks Became a Central Element of Dada Zurich’s Stage Performances
Dance
Mona de Weerdt
“Abstract” and “Cubist” (Mask) Dances
On The Dada Stages
Revolt
Nicola Behrens
Revolt
Jultta Mattern
Arcadia – The Longing That Stays,
Monte Verità and the Life Reform Movement
Brand
Juri Steiner
The Name of the Lily. Dada as a Brand
Maike Steinkamp
Infecting the World with Dada
The Dada Zurich Journals as Mouthpieces
Of the Movement
Jürgen Häusler
Dada as Brand? Positively. Not.