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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(jazz music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.49,0:00:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: This amazing photo montage
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.44,0:00:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is by German artist Hannah Hoch\Nand it's from 1919 to about 1920
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.54,0:00:22.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it has an extremely long title.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.71,0:00:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.16,0:00:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Last Weimar Beer-Belly\NCultural Epoch of Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.32,0:00:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was displayed in First\NInternational Dada Fair.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.70,0:00:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: 1919-1920, that was\Na really pretty frought moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.89,0:00:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was going on?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.50,0:00:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Political chaos.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.80,0:00:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Okay, she seems\Nto have captured that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.13,0:00:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: She has captured it (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.05,0:00:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: What kind of political chaos?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.07,0:00:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Well, the government has been
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.66,0:00:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely changed after World War I.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.07,0:00:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot of conflict\Nbetween the Spartacists,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.19,0:00:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the far left wing communist,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.37,0:01:00.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of which of those\Npeople are featured in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.36,0:01:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are conflicts between\Nthose groups and the [fry court].
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.100,0:01:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The [fry court] was\Nencouraged to attack people
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.09,0:01:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by members of the government.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.87,0:01:12.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are all these clashes and a\Nlot of people end up getting arrested
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.09,0:01:13.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some people end up getting killed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.32,0:01:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's just one particular moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.69,0:01:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's January of 1919, all\Nof that fighting happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.12,0:01:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: All this fragmentation\Nis just beautifully captured here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.37,0:01:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The contrast from the kind of long war,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.71,0:01:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which would have really\Nfocused the country's attention
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.37,0:01:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then this complete breakdown.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.02,0:01:32.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The contrast is just stunning.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.66,0:01:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It's really a sort\Nof tabula rosa here (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.96,0:01:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: That's a very important point.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.40,0:01:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot of little\Npieces that are left over.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.78,0:01:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's exactly what Hoch\Nis working with here.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.53,0:01:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the political players\N(crosstalk) between them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.00,0:01:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think about the title,\NCut with the Kitchen Knife,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.07,0:01:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think about the idea of\Ncutting things literally.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.24,0:01:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That works for the photo montage\Nand she's sort of cutting
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.60,0:01:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a swath through all this and\Npiecing things back together
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.53,0:02:00.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways that make sense to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.26,0:02:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Focusing on the fragmentation as\Ndefining culture at that moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.90,0:02:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: But I love\Nthat it's a photo montage
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.93,0:02:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm assuming most of\Nthese photographs came
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.90,0:02:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from newspapers from magazines,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.63,0:02:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it's all immediate and topical\Nand all relevant in this moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.46,0:02:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's being reconstructed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.00,0:02:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: But I love\Nthat it's a kitchen knife.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.62,0:02:23.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: She's very focused\Nalso the role of women artists.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.93,0:02:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She talked a lot about it\Nand she wrote about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.07,0:02:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a Dadaist, how was she treated?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.10,0:02:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wasn't treated very well.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.29,0:02:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think one of the things she\Nactually had a problem with
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.69,0:02:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a lot of male Dadaists had grand ideas
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.62,0:02:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about changing cultural morays\Nand views and gender equity,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.27,0:02:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then in their practice\Nof that, they did nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.79,0:02:44.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a couple of ways\Nthat is visualized here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.51,0:02:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we look at the very central image,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.46,0:02:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we actually see one of the foremost
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.37,0:02:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,German expressionist\Nartists K채the Kollwitz
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.85,0:02:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It's also been severed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.35,0:02:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: And the body underneath\Nher is dancer Niddi Impekoven
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.17,0:03:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you look at the way\Nthat that forms a central point
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.14,0:03:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around which everything else rotates
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.84,0:03:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is a sense of movement\Nhappening all at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.00,0:03:14.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Well, I noticed a\Nlot wheels and gears (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.71,0:03:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It's a machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.54,0:03:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think about the machinery of -
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.30,0:03:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Government.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.77,0:03:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Government, the\Nmachinery of culture of ...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.97,0:03:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think of the machine\Nitself, even the machine of Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.04,0:03:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: But the machine, to me,\Nhas a very male connotation to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.74,0:03:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: One thing I always think\Nis really interesting to point out
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.97,0:03:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we zoom in and look in\Nthe far right lower corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.22,0:03:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This tiny little head right\Nhere is actually Hannah Hoch.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.37,0:03:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead of putting her signature,\Nshe puts a little portrait of herself
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.14,0:03:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what it is is it's actually\Npasted on to the corner of a map
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.94,0:03:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which shows the countries in Europe
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.11,0:03:54.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had women's voting\Nrights at the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.91,0:03:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that's one of the ways\Nthat we know she was thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.47,0:04:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the role of women in\Nsociety and in the art world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.44,0:04:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the best ways to deal\Nwith a picture of this scale,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.57,0:04:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where there's so much happening\Nis to look at this other version
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.47,0:04:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I actually annotated.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.94,0:04:14.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: We're in Flickr now.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.80,0:04:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: We're in Flickr right\Nnow and I created this image,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.47,0:04:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has a lot of notes on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.24,0:04:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: If you want to\Nsee this, you can just go
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.64,0:04:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the SmartHistory group in Flickr.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.66,0:04:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: In Flickr and\Nyou can find this image.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.37,0:04:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then what happens is we wave over it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.70,0:04:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we see all these different things.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.74,0:04:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, if you think about\Nthis image in terms of quadrants.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.88,0:04:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's an upper right and a lower right\Nand a lower left and an upper left.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.16,0:04:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've decided to name the left side,\Neven though they're not usually named.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.87,0:04:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usually the right side is\Nknown as the anti-Dadaists
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.86,0:04:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you look, she's called that\N"di anti-dadists" right over here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.00,0:04:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's cut out a lot of text,\Nas well, and that's up here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.76,0:04:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people that are in\Nthe anti-Dadaist corner
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.20,0:04:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are obviously politicians\Nand former politicians.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.83,0:05:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kaiser Wilhelm is right here.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.94,0:05:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His head is really big and\Nthis figure is quite large.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.66,0:05:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: And Kaiser\NWilhelm has been deposed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.71,0:05:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: He's abdicated in Holland.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.87,0:05:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Okay. (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.49,0:05:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he's led the country into World War I.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.20,0:05:15.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Yes, into\Ndisaster, so he's gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.44,0:05:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: I just want\Nto be clear who he was.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.60,0:05:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not a nice man.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.37,0:05:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Not a nice man and there's\Na lot of satire going on in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.90,0:05:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then there are also\Nother political figures.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.70,0:05:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's General von\NHindenberg, the head of him
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.00,0:05:29.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the body of this exotic dancer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.67,0:05:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: She took a male general\Nand put him on a female body
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.70,0:05:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and castrated him in a way.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.27,0:05:39.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: She makes fun of Kaiser\NWilhelm with this little figure
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.45,0:05:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two wrestlers that are\Ncreating the mustache.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.90,0:05:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Down here there is German\NMinister of Defense Gustav Noske.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.19,0:05:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's talking to another general over here
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.07,0:05:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this general up here\Nis standing on their heads.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.84,0:05:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Another man\Nwho led them into war.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.28,0:05:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.00,0:06:00.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Sort of like the\NDonald Rumsfeld, (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.19,0:06:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: If you think about\Npictures of our contemporary US.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.16,0:06:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: These are people (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.23,0:06:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: And some of\Nthem were still in power.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.67,0:06:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're working with\Nreformulating the government,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.74,0:06:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is not ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.53,0:06:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no way any sense of\Norganization fragmented in many ways
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.30,0:06:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all these people are grasping\Nfor power that they did have before
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.70,0:06:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and trying to figure out ways\Nto pull the country together,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.86,0:06:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if we go down here,\Nin the lower right corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.57,0:06:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see the world of the Dadaists.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.23,0:06:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Die welt Dada" and right here\Nit says "Dada isten" right there.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.57,0:06:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the corner that has\NHannah Hoch and the map.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.69,0:06:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then it also has other Dadaist figures.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.78,0:06:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is the Dadaist Raoul Hausmann.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.80,0:06:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hannah Hoch had a relationship\Nwith Hausmann for a while,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.90,0:06:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not her whole life, and for a long\Ntime all the literature on Hoch
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.86,0:06:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,focused on her relationship.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.03,0:06:49.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was always referred to as\Nthe wife of Raoul Hausmann.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.86,0:06:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: What's interesting is that\Nvisually the bottom right corner,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.50,0:06:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Dadaist corner is much\Nless dense (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.36,0:06:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Here you see the two\Nheads of Dadaists George Grosz
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.84,0:07:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Wielande Herzfelde.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.28,0:07:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wielande Herzfelde is the\Nbrother of John Heartfield.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.80,0:07:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Heartfield changed his\Nname, he anglicized his name
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.36,0:07:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Niddi Impekoven, the same\Ndancer that's in the center here,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.94,0:07:17.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is now over here bathing John\NHeartfield in this bathtub.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.01,0:07:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It seems to be demeaning men.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.93,0:07:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: She is, I\Nthink very specifically,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.74,0:07:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to reverse as much -
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.18,0:07:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Power relations.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.01,0:07:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Yeah, power\Nrelations as much as she can.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.04,0:07:30.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In here we have in the\Ncenter Lenin is over here,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.51,0:07:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kind of in the center, you\Ncan't really see it right now
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.60,0:07:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then there's another\NDadaist, Johannes Baader
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.30,0:07:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you see one of the\Ncommunist party leaders, Karl Radek
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.30,0:07:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was back and forth\Nbetween Russia and Germany,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.60,0:07:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so he's very involved with the\Ncommunist party in Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.87,0:07:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those three together, there's Karl Marx,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.60,0:07:51.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we always have to\Nhave Marx, then over here
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.33,0:07:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the head of modern art critic\Nand writer Theodore D채ubler
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.53,0:08:00.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his head is on top of\Na baby's body (laughing)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.35,0:08:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: A huge baby's body. (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.47,0:08:04.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It's pretty funny.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.17,0:08:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: So really\Ninfantilizing all of these people.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.64,0:08:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: And they're all\Nmen, all these Dadists are men.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.60,0:08:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: And her colleagues.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.37,0:08:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: What I've decided\Nis that on the left side,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.45,0:08:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're forms of Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.30,0:08:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Dada propaganda.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.78,0:08:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Einstein right here, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.62,0:08:18.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he is saying a couple\Nof different things.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.37,0:08:20.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right here, this little\Nbit of text is in German
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.95,0:08:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it says, "He he, young\Nman, Dada is not an art trend."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.87,0:08:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just something\Nthat's coming and going
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.50,0:08:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that it's actually\Nsomething more meaningful
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.12,0:08:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that it's about (crosstalk).
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.10,0:08:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Political\Nand worldy and timely.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.78,0:08:37.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Up in the corner\Nthis is another thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.77,0:08:40.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.73,0:08:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Propagandistic\Nmessages designed
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.56,0:08:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to tap into the idea of art making is\Na money venture, it's an investment.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.06,0:08:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: But it's\Nalso clearly absurdist.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.06,0:08:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It's just\Nmocking the entire venture.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.16,0:08:56.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Down here, there's a\Nlot of scenes of mass gathering.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.83,0:08:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We see in the center here this figure.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.56,0:09:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Karl Liebknecht, one of\Nthe German communist party leaders,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.95,0:09:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with Rosa Luxembourg,\Nwho were, as it says,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.32,0:09:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jailed, tortured, and then\Nassassinated in January 1919.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.20,0:09:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a moment that\Nreally brought together -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.77,0:09:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Galvanized the left.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.56,0:09:15.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Galvanized the left.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.45,0:09:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are all photographs that\Nshe's taken out of popular press.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.00,0:09:22.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's taken that figure of him and\Nright here, he's saying, "Join Dada."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.95,0:09:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is why I think it's\Na kind of Dada persuasion.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.29,0:09:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are persuasive messages, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.29,0:09:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is all about -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.45,0:09:30.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Resist these, resist that.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.95,0:09:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: After all, these images\Ncame out of a commercial magazine.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.84,0:09:34.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.33,0:09:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Product magazines\Nalso and popular women's journals
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.83,0:09:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Berliner Illustrated Zeitung,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.87,0:09:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the illustrated press of Berlin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.87,0:09:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Dada had only been\Naround for a couple of years
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.73,0:09:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at this point, for just a few years.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.69,0:09:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How was this being received?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.03,0:09:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of audience did this have?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.89,0:09:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: This had the audience of\Nother Dadaists (laughing) in Berlin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.33,0:10:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada is going on all over Europe and\Nthere are different centers of Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.78,0:10:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a Dada movement in Paris -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.23,0:10:07.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Zurich (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.11,0:10:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: And Hanover and in Berlin.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.16,0:10:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They all have different\Nart making practices
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.78,0:10:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and photo montage was central\Nto the Berlin Dadaists.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.52,0:10:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: What is the the Last\NWeimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.99,0:10:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Abundance and\Ngluttony and beer, of course,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.13,0:10:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being, to me, very German,\Nhaving a beer-belly
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.80,0:10:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those last vestiges\Nof that bourgeois -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.56,0:10:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Wealthy, stable\Nculture that had allowed
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.73,0:10:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first World War to really happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.40,0:10:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were some artists\Nthat were actually looking
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.83,0:10:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at traditional painting as\Nhaving been, in some ways,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.52,0:10:43.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,responsible for the violence\Nof the war, and responsible
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.47,0:10:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the culture that\Ncould've produced this war
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.90,0:10:48.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and art having some -
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.52,0:10:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Or holding up those values.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.69,0:10:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Holding up those\Nvalues, exactly (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.64,0:10:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Commodity of (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.00,0:11:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would have allowed for the hierarchy\Nto create this kind of violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.50,0:11:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Another kind\Nof armchair bourgeois.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.03,0:11:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Yeah, that's right,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.58,0:11:06.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what is art's responsibility\Nwithin that cultural framework?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.33,0:11:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: in the upper right we\Nhave a political establishment,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.25,0:11:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but on the lower left (crosstalk)\Nthat's a huge contrast.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.13,0:11:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That tension remains (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.53,0:11:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Dada cutting a\Nswath, in a way, (crosstalk)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.69,0:11:24.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: The word\N"Dada" in the upper left
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.22,0:11:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through the word "Dada"\Nagain in the lower right
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.46,0:11:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her own self portrait with\NKollwitz in the middle there.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.73,0:11:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Dividing those classes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.08,0:11:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Women, in a way.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.19,0:11:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: And women, I think,\Nshe puts in places of power,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.46,0:11:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or at least as a destabilizing force.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.74,0:11:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: The whole notion of the\Nkitchen knife is really empowering.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.08,0:11:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: The idea of\Ndomesticity as being something
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.75,0:11:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could undermine cultural values.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.12,0:11:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an amazing idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.12,0:11:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.39,0:11:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It's brilliant, I love it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.69,0:11:53.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: I love it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.91,0:11:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voiceover: It's cool.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.72,0:11:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(jazz music)