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Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)
Cabaret Voltaire is the birthplace of the Dada art movement, founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916. It was founded by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings as a cabaret intended for artistic and political purposes. Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp. It is currently operating as museum, bar and cultural spaceopen to the public, at Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland. Significance The cabaret was founded at the Holländische Meierei, Spiegelgasse 1, in Zurich, Switzerland on February 5, 1916. It proved pivotal in the founding of the anarchic art movement known as Dada. "If one seeks a dictionary now to explain the word 'Dada,' one will discover it has a clear definition. Yet, no one can describe exactly that feeling of rebellion, hidden behind suspicion and the desire to do what the troupe was passionate about at the time." In 2013, the Cabaret Voltaire performances were ranked as the 25th best work of pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Marcel S%C5%82odki Cabaret-Voltaire
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Grekov Odesa Art School, Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Tartu, University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Academy of Fine Arts. During this time, he was first the teacher and then the partner of German artist Gabriele Münter. He returned to Moscow in 1914 after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leumund Cult
Jan Theiler alias Pastor Leumund (born 1967) is a Germans, German artist, musician and political activist. In the 1990s, he was an influential curator, performance artist and musician on the underground scene organising large-scale music and performance events at various venues in East-Berlin including the Duncker14, K77, Prater, Kule, Kunsthaus Tacheles and many more. In 1997, he took part in the Labyrinth festival, in the Torpedo Hallen, Copenhagen. In 1999, he exhibited at the Rich and Famous gallery, London. He was one of a number of artists including Mark Divo, the Mikry Drei, Lennie Lee and Dan Jones (artist), Dan Jones to have squatted the Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich) in the February 2002, in an attempt to revive the Dada movement. He became well known in Zürich as a spokesman for the neo-dadaists. He curated the second (Sihlpapier 2003), third (Toilethouses 2004) and fourth (Pornokino 2005) Dada festival together with Mark Divo in Zürich. In 2005, he was included in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennie Lee
Lennie Lee (born 4 March 1958) is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London. Life and career Lee is a South African artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college in London before winning a scholarship to study philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1983, he took up painting. Soon after, he moved to East London where he became interested in the urban dereliction left over from the Second World War. In 1984 he occupied several disused buildings and, together with a number of artists including South African painter, Beezy Bailey, he began to make site-specific art, site-specific Installation art, installations using found material. From the mid-1980s he joined various underground art collectives including the ARC group, a London-based collective of international artists, influenced by Kurt Schwitters, who specialized in building site-specific installation art. From 1987 to 1991, he worked together wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingo Giezendanner
Ingo Giezendanner (born 1975) is a Swiss painter and installation artist. He is a member of the Kroesos Foundation. He lives and works in Zürich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ..., Switzerland. Publications * GRR5: Seattle / San Francisco (1999), Andreas Züst Verlag, 104 pages * GRR8: Zürich (2002) Edition Patrick Frey, 72 pages Out of print. * GRR20: Die Bau Zeitung (2004) edition fink, 40 pages * GRR23: DESIGN (2004) Nieves Books, 12 pages Out of print. * GRR30: urban recordings (2006) passenger books, 356 pages External links *Passenger Books, publisher of Giezendanners book "GRR30: urban recordings" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squatted
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building (usually residential) that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there were one billion slum residents and squatters globally. Squatting is practiced worldwide, typically when people find empty buildings or land to occupy for housing. In developing countries and least developed countries, shanty towns often begin as squatted settlements. In African cities such as Lagos, much of the population lives in slums. There are pavement dwellers in India and in Hong Kong as well as rooftop slums. Informal settlements in Latin America are known by names such as villa miseria (Argentina), pueblos jóvenes (Peru) and asentamientos irregulares (Guatemala, Uruguay). In Brazil, there are favelas in the major cities and rural land-based movements. In industrialized countries, there are often residential squats and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Divo
Mark Divo (born 1966) is a Swiss-Luxembourgian conceptual artist and curator. He organizes large-scale interactive art projects incorporating the work of underground artists. His work involves painting, performance, photography, sculpture and installation. Early life Divo was born in 1966. From 1987 to 1989 he studied social sciences in Göttingen. He had his first self-organized exhibition in 1988. In 1989 he dropped out of his studies and moved to Berlin. Career Between 1988 and 1989 Divo worked in West Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he moved to East Berlin, where he organized exhibitions at the Kunst Haus Tacheles. Between 1990 and 1994 he organized exhibitions, performances, and murals with the Duncker group. In 1994 he moved back to Zürich where he created a number of murals and organised a group of travelling mural painters. There he organised several underground art projects funded by the Swiss government, including exhibitions/events in the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Woodard, Ma Anand Sheela And Christian Kracht Reading At Cabaret Voltaire At Zürich
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (; ; born Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Poland, Polish descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "Cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement, the term Orphism (art), Orphism in 1912, and the term "Surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. He wrote poems without punctuation, in his attempt to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play ''The Breasts of Tiresias'' (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera ''Les mamelles de Tirésias''. Influenced by Symbolist poetry in his youth, he was admired during his lifetime by the young poets who later formed the nucleus of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabaret Voltaire (magazine)
''Cabaret Voltaire'' was a one-issue Dadaist art magazine which was published in May 1916 in Zürich, Switzerland. Its subtitle was ''eine Sammlung künstlerischer und literarischer Beiträge'' (German: ''A collection of artistic and literary contributions''). History and profile ''Cabaret Voltaire'' was launched by the German writer Hugo Ball in Zürich and appeared on 31 May 1916. In the magazine Hugo Ball announced the opening of an artistic nightclub with the same name, Cabaret Voltaire. The publisher of the magazine was Julius Heuberger. Its size was 21.5 x 27 cm (8½ x 10½ inches), and it had thirty-two pages. Five hundred copies of the magazine were issued. ''Cabaret Voltaire'' published articles in French and German. Its format was conventional, and the magazine featured work by the Dadaist, Futurist and Cubist artists. The successor of ''Cabaret Voltaire'' was ''Dada'', an art and literary review launched by Tristan Tzara Tristan Tzara (; ; ; born Samuel or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dada Manifesto (1916, Hugo Ball)
The Dada Manifesto (French: ) is a short text written by Hugo Ball detailing the ideals underlying the Dadaist movement. It was presented at Zur Waag guildhall in Zürich at the first public Dada gathering on July 14, 1916. The choice of this date, Bastille Day, was important to Ball as it carried significance as a protest to World War I. In this manifesto, Ball begins by giving diverse definitions of the word "Dada" in multiple languages. He continues to introduce the movement's own definition of "Dada" by boldly asserting that "Dada is the heart of words." Ball concludes his manifesto with a linguistic explosion that alternates between coherence and absurdity. After writing his manifesto Ball stayed active in the Dada movement for another six months, but the manifesto created conflict with his fellow Dada artists, most notably Tristan Tzara. On March 23, 1918, Tzara wrote and published another, longer, . This manifesto was angrier and more nonsensical in tone. Tzara counters Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dada Manifesto
The Dada Manifesto (French: ) is a short text written by Hugo Ball detailing the ideals underlying the Dadaist movement. It was presented at Zur Waag guildhall in Zürich at the first public Dada gathering on July 14, 1916. The choice of this date, Bastille Day, was important to Ball as it carried significance as a protest to World War I. In this manifesto, Ball begins by giving diverse definitions of the word "Dada" in multiple languages. He continues to introduce the movement's own definition of "Dada" by boldly asserting that "Dada is the heart of words." Ball concludes his manifesto with a linguistic explosion that alternates between coherence and absurdity. After writing his manifesto Ball stayed active in the Dada movement for another six months, but the manifesto created conflict with his fellow Dada artists, most notably Tristan Tzara. On March 23, 1918, Tzara wrote and published another, longer, . This manifesto was angrier and more nonsensical in tone. Tzara counters Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
