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Dada and Cabaret Voltaire

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The press release that accompanied the opening of the nightclub reads:
Cabaret Voltaire. Under this name a group of young artists and writers has been formed whose aim is to create a centre for artistic entertainment. The idea of the cabaret will be that guest artists will come and give musical performances and readings at the daily meetings. The young artists of Zurich, whatever their orientation, are invited to come along with suggestions and contributions of all kinds. -Zurich, February 2, 1916.

This is a clip from a movie about dada that I digitised from videotape.
I think that the original documentary film, from which this is an excerpt, is called ‘Dada’, directed by Greta Deses and originally produced in 1969. The link below should enable you to access a copy of the film from a source near you. I am fairly sure this is the film that I used.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/dada/oclc/610041475

In response to queries about the video. Since first posting the video I spent a considerable amount of time researching dada for a novel and am convinced that the video is, as always suspected, an excellent reconstruction. Ball’s ‘Flight out of time’ makes no mention of any filming.

‘273 Dada Street’ – a novel by Ted Bachman
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1980267030/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=artell-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1980267030&linkId=30f28ea140c5e309bb4c59ab63ee559c

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32 thoughts on “Dada and Cabaret Voltaire”

  1. Thanks to Cabaret Voltaire for these experiences… Thanks to my friend Gianni D.F. ( the best Italiania collectionist of C.V.) that took me the opportunity to know them better…

  5. Such a shame.
    Those were the very tools of zionGROZZcapitalizmuz.
    ztalim called people like him USEFUL IDIOTS.
    Indeed he was.
    DAli and Duchamp were a bit should we say:SANE? ot just common sensed of germanic,roman origin?
    American people haz alwayz been ruled by Ratcildfam,thus : no conception of culturenor wits.
    Sheer puerility,just like eg warhol.
    Capice?
    Dr T

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  7. my mind is blown. absurdity and non restriction at it's finest. I can't believe I've gone this far in life without seeing this

  13. For everyone who's wondering what the hell they've just listened to:

    Reciting the Sound Poem "Karawane" (1916)

    Artist: Hugo Ball
    Artwork description & Analysis: Ball designed this costume for his performance of the sound-poem, "Karawane," in which nonsensical syllables uttered in patterns created rhythm and emotion, but nothing resembling any known language. The resulting lack of sense was meant to reference the inability of European powers to solve their diplomatic problems through the use of rational discussion, thus leading to World War I – equating the political situation to the biblical episode of the Tower of Babel. Ball's strange costume is meant to further distance him from his audience and his everyday surroundings, making his speech even more foreign and exotic. Ball described his costume: "My legs were in a cylinder of shiny blue cardboard, which came up to my hips so that I looked like an obelisk. Over it I wore a huge coat cut out of cardboard, scarlet inside and gold outside. It was fastened at the neck in such a way that I could give the impression of wing-like movement by raising and lowering my elbows. I also wore a high, blue-and-white-striped witch doctor's hat."

    Source: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada-artworks.htm#pnt_4
    For further information: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm

  16. Has your book come out yet on Dada? I would be very intrigued to read it. I am currently doing a project for a seminar on women artists of the Dada movement.

  23. SO..what (few) details do you have on the original movie from which this was digitized? The year in which it was produced at least? It would be very helpful for my research on Dada performances.

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