Dada in Zurich – Cabaret Voltaire -­‐ h�p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=�l92oV1kMc Hugo Ball in his “Magical Bishop” costume Marcel Janco, Mask, c. 1919, Paper, cardboard, at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, June 1916 string, gouache, and pastel, 45 x 22 5 cm Umberto Boccioni, Futurist Evening in Milan, 1911 Hugo Ball in his “Magical Bishop” costume at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, June 1916 context WWI trenches, Belgium, 1917 Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917/1964, porcelain urinal, paint, 36 x 48 x 61 cm Ready-made Useless machines à nonsense, anti- functional, anti-rational, anti-art Contradicts viewer’s expectations: 1) quality of the object / craft of the artist vs. ART ABOUT MEANING 2)rare/ unique=precious vs. Marcel Duchamp, INDUSTRIAL, MASS- Fountain, 1917/1964, PRODUCED porcelain urinal, paint, 36 3) aesthetic (beautiful) vs. x 48 x 61 cm FUNCTIONAL ABSENCE OF GOOD/ BAD TASTE Piero Manzoni, Artist’s Shit, 1961 art as a permanent provocation Focus on the gallery as a frame Man Ray, Lovingly Rrose Selavy Alias Marcel Duchamp, 1921 Cindy Sherman, from the series: Un�tled (Film S�lls) , 1977-­‐80 Dada Fair, Berlin 1920 Dada Berlin – Dada Fair 1920 1) Fragmenta�on and clash Hannah Hoch, Cut with the kitchen knife through the beer belly of the Weimar Republic, c. 1919, collage cm 114 x 89.8 Dada Berlin – Dada Fair 1920 1) Fragmenta�on and clash 2) From collage to photomontage (against cubist aesthe�cism) 3) An�-­‐bourgeois, an�-­‐mass media, an�-­‐sexism Hannah Hoch, Cut with the kitchen knife through the beer belly of the Weimar Republic, c. 1919, collage cm 114 x 89.8 From photomontage to new narra�ve Avant-­‐garde and propaganda Hear�ield, Those who read bourgeois newspapers become deaf and dumb, 1930 Hear�ield, The Meaning of the Hear�iield, Adolf, the Superman, Swallows Hitler Salute: Li�le Man Asks for Gold and Spouts Junk, 1932 Big Gi�s, 1932 .