1916- 2016, 100th DADA anniversary DADA DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING

DADA               DADA                DADA                  DADA                DADA                    DADA               DADA                     DADA                          DADA                   DADA                     DADA                DADA                 DADA                   DADA                   DADA                  DADA       DADA                DADA                 DADA                   DADA                DADA                     DADA         DADA                  DADA                    DADA               DADA                 DADA               DADA             DADA          DADA           DADA    DADA               DADA             DADA          DADA         DADA   DADA               DADA             DADA          DADA         DADA   DADA               DADA             DADA          DADA         DADA

“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way.“ 
- Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918” 

“This humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.” 
― Hugo Ball 

“Eternity is the best policy.” 
― Kurt Schwitters 

DADAIST DISGUST

Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family is Dada; a protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action: Dada; knowledge of all the means rejected up until now by the shamefaced sex of comfortable compromise and good manners: DADA; abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: DADA; of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: DADA: every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: DADA; abolition of memory: Dada; abolition of archaeology: DADA; abolition of prophets: DADA; abolition of the future: DADA; absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity: DADA; elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere; trajectory of a word tossed like a screeching phonograph record; to respect all individuals in their folly of the moment: whether it be serious, fearful, timid, ardent, vigorous, determined, enthusiastic; to divest one's church of eve ry useless cumbersome accessory; to spit out disagreeable or amorous ideas like a luminous waterfall, or coddle them—with the extreme satisfaction that it doesn't matter in the least - with the same intensity in the thicket of core's soul pure of insects for blood well-born, and gilded with bodies of archangels. Freedom: DADA DADA DADA, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies:

LIFE.

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