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Dada ist da, weil Dada da ist. Ist Dada Dada.

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Hugo Ball

1886 - 1927

Ball at the reading on 23 June 1916

included Jean Arp, Johannes Baader, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Emmy Hennings, Hannah Höch, Richard Huelsenbeck, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Tristan Tzara, and Beatrice Wood.

When I heard about Dada for the first time at the age of eighteen I was gobsmacked, completely blown away wow and they had been doing this for so long before I even existed, let alone my parents! What awesome stuff, that's exactly what somehow captivated me completely and without any resistance... I wanted to know everything about it. At the time, the internet didn't even officially exist, which drove me to bookshops and libraries to find out everything and anything about it.

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Today I am still fascinated. Today, when I'm at an art exhibition, I sometimes look at new artists with a twinkle in my eye and think that it's been done before and even better, but I never say a word! I smile and enjoy the evening with all the art enthusiasts.

Art is art because we want to see it that way, I love the sentence from people who are not interested in art: they look at a work of art and then say I can do that too, yes but you don't do it, I always think art comes from can not from want, smiled thinking into the room.

Raoul Hausmann and Hannah Höch at the Berlin Dada exhibition, Galerie Burchard, Berlin, [July 25 – August 25] 1920 [Photo: © Robert Sennecke]