July 14, 2016 Dada, probably the most important avant-garde movement of the 20th century, celebrates its 100 anniversary. Dada or Dadaism art movement began on July 14, 1916 at Cabaret Voltaire, where the poet Hugo Ball proclaimed the manifesto for a new movement.
Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals; passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture were topics often discussed in a variety of media. Key figures in the movement included Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Johannes Baader, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Richard Huelsenbeck, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, Kurt Schwitters, Hans Richter, and Max Ernst, among others. The movement influenced later styles like the avant-garde and downtown music movements, and groups including surrealism, Nouveau Réalisme, pop art and Fluxus.
How to celebrate? Let’s do it a Dada with Einstürzende Neubauten 😉