How did it begin?

Zurich

1916

The DADA Manifesto

Tristan Tzara

The original Dada manifesto

Why Dada?

Hugo Ball & Cabaret Voltaire

Hugo Ball Cabaret Voltaire (1916)

Objects found by chance become art

Marcel Duchamp, «Fountain», an inverted urinal

Hans (Jean) Arp

Hans Arp, «Untitled (Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance)»

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp, «Bottle Dryer»

Collage

Photomontage

Assemblage

“Ready-mades”