Episode 6 - Dada

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