Zurich's anti-art movement: ninety-four years after its manic inception, let's take a look back at Zurich's own anti-war, anti-class and anti-art movement, which celebrated anarchy and pandemonium: Dadaism.

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Zurich's anti-art movement: ninety-four years after its manic inception, let's take a look back at Zurich's own anti-war, anti-class and anti-art movement, which celebrated anarchy and pandemonium: Dadaism.

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"In French it means hobbyhorse. In German it means good-bye ... In Romanian: Yes, indeed, you are right ... definitely, right. The word, gentlemen, is a public concern of the first importance." And with that declaration--read from the Dada manifesto at the first public Dada event on July 14, 1916 Hugo Ball launched one of the most influential and important (anti-) art movements of all time, Dada.

In 1916, Zurich was the gathering place for refugees from war-torn Europe, a place where peop...

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