DADA MANIFESTO QUOTE BY HUGO BALL

The artistic expression that was created entirely by the trauma of the war is known as Dadaism. Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement mainly involved literature, visual arts (poetry, art manifestoes, and art theory), theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works.        

Dada activities included demonstrations, public gatherings, and publication of art or literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled most of their publications. The movement influenced later styles, Avant-garde and Downtown music movements, and groups including Surrealism. (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_dadaism)

“An International word. Just a word and the word a movement. Very easy to understand. Quite terribly simple. To make of it an artistic tendency must mean that one is anticipating complications. Dada psychology, dada Germany cum indigestion and fog paroxysm, dada literature, dada bourgeoisie, and yourselves, honored poets, who are always writing with words but never writing the word itself, who are always writing around the actual point. Dada world war without end, dada revolution without beginning, dada, you friends and also-poets, esteemed sirs, manufacturers, and evangelists. Dada Tzara, dada Huelsenbeck, dada m'dada, dada m'dada dada mhm, dada dera dada, dada Hue, dada Tza.” (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dada_Manifesto_(1916,_Hugo_Ball)

 From the quote, we could tell that Hugo was introducing to the people the Dada movement. He tried to make it easy for everyone to understand and know what the movement was all about. He did not understand why they did not understand him because he thought it was simple. That is why he said in his quote that “quite terribly simple”. He wanted people to come to a realization of how art, poems sayings and their writings were used to describe the movement. He also tried to point out how poet and writers wrote or made their piece of work but failed to or did not actually talk about the main issues but turned the whole story to make it complicated.

I like this quote and I chose it because it brings to light how people around us hide facts especially when it comes to our politics. They always hide the truth from us and feed us with lies, they cover up a lot of issues with the little things they do to blindfold us into believing that there are more gold in everything that shines which often is not so. Hugo did well to help people see reality as it was.

The Dada movement therefore helps to generate the understanding of how the people were been treated wrongly and on how best they could help fight back for their right.