Event type: | Workshop |
Date: | Tuesday 4th February 2025 |
Time: | 5:00pm |
Group: | History & Appreciation of Art |
Venue: | Biblioteca de L'Envic |
Organiser: |
Robert Sedgley
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Cost: | Free |
February's History & Appreciation of Art session is about the Dada movement.

Dadaism burst on an unsuspecting public in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire, started by Hugo Ball. This "anti-art" movement, a protest against war, against all bourgeois values, against romanticism and expressionism and anything associated with convention and the old order which had brought the world to the conflagration of the First World War, erupted in many cities around the same time: Berlin, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, Barcelona and New York.
A disparate group of artists and writers came together for a few electrifying years when they upended the notions of art and respectability, In a spirit of provocation they organised 'art' exhibitions of detritus and found objects which confused the viewer, readings of sound poetry without meaning and performances which invariably (and deliberately) ended in the audience rioting.
The world and art were never to recover: although this 'movement' would inevitably end in quarrels and retribution among its authors, Dada lives on; in art, in satire and comedy (The Goons and Monty Python), in fashion and fake news and the ability to doubt everything.
You don't need to pre-book, just come along,