Wednesday, September 23, 2009

DaDa Research

DaDa

  • Response to the atrocities of war and patriotism
  • Believed the collapse of western culture was marked by the barbarism of WW1
  • Wanted to break away from the values of society
  • Use creativity as a form of protest of the ethical impoverishment of the European middle class
  • Engaged in irony, satire and improvisation
  • The name DaDa had no meaning
  • A DaDa performance featured dance, music, poetry and hybrid performance
  • Used improvisation and change as strategy for making works- what ever the meaning
  • They wanted to change the rules of aesthetics
  • Famous works such as "collage arranged according to the laws of chance"
  • Ideas of free association
  • Ideas of aesthetic anarchy

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