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Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.72,0:00:05.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.12,0:00:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.96,0:00:10.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some words seize the imagination and draw you in,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.56,0:00:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inviting you to delve deeper.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.92,0:00:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, Dada is just one of those words.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.80,0:00:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An idea, a call to arms and a way of thinking.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.16,0:00:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, ready, here we go.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.48,0:00:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to embark on a journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.40,0:00:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to take you, dear viewer, to a place where
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.68,0:00:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no television programme has ever been before, but...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.12,0:00:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, what I am going to do is try and persuade you that Dada is
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.12,0:00:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much, much more than an obscure art movement with a funny name.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.96,0:00:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.36,0:00:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,100 years ago, in the midst of a nonsensical war,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.08,0:00:49.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada made an art out of the absurd.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.84,0:00:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mocking politicians,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.52,0:00:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,satirising the media,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.80,0:00:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ridiculing centuries of culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.48,0:01:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada created a new way of looking at the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.36,0:01:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes shocking, often anarchic,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.12,0:01:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and always difficult to define, its legacy would span a century.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.08,0:01:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada's tentacles have spread right across our culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.92,0:01:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from punk
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.12,0:01:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Pythons
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.76,0:01:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from Damien Hirst
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.40,0:01:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to David Bowie.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.40,0:01:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world has gone gaga for Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.12,0:01:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you want me to shout "Dada" now?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.00,0:01:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.28,0:01:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody's heard of Dada,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.56,0:01:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but no-one seems to know exactly what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.32,0:01:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada takes delight in contradiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.92,0:01:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, to help me pin it down, I've enlisted the help of a few friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.12,0:01:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.28,0:01:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daaaaaaaa-daaaaaaa!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.28,0:01:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Da-da, Da-da, Da-da-da.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.80,0:01:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Da! Da!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.12,0:01:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, with their assistance, I'll be recreating some Dada performances,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.96,0:01:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destroying some artworks,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.08,0:01:59.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pulling some mischievous stunts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.12,0:02:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's my Dadaist act for the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.52,0:02:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of this to establish why, out of all the isms, movements and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.44,0:02:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,manifestos of the 20th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.64,0:02:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the Dadaists who proved the most important,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.32,0:02:14.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,giving birth not only to a lot of modern art,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.76,0:02:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also shaping comedy, music and political protest.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.84,0:02:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MUSIC: Da Da Da by Trio
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.52,0:02:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LAIDBACK RUSTIC MUSIC PLAYS
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.84,0:02:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I first came across Dada at art school in the early '80s.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.76,0:02:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was funnier and more anarchic than anything else I'd
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.56,0:02:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,discovered and it didn't always have to make sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.32,0:02:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I soon embarked on nonsensical performances of my own.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.00,0:02:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did a performance called I, Kestrel,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.56,0:02:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I dropped potatoes from out of a cardboard box.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.32,0:03:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in a band that had no name, but we smelt of curry.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.36,0:03:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It emerged from flasks at the side of the stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.32,0:03:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people have called some of my performances Dada-esque, and they've
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.92,0:03:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly always flown in the face of logic, leading me to think...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.84,0:03:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have I've been subconsciously influenced? Hmmm.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.04,0:03:21.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.88,0:03:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hmmm.\N- Hmmmmm.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.88,0:03:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But where did all this Dadaism begin?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.16,0:03:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Que es Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.96,0:03:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada - a word chosen at random from a French-German dictionary.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.32,0:03:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, yes," in Romanian.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.16,0:03:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A hobby horse in French.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.56,0:04:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever the case, it all began 100 years ago in an unlikely place.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.44,0:04:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CUCKOO!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.28,0:04:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't in Berlin
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.08,0:04:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Paris,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.72,0:04:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or any of your usual hotbeds of Bohemian outrage. No.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.44,0:04:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first artists to scare the hell out of the Establishment
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.84,0:04:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,launched their revolution here in, of all places, Zurich.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.04,0:04:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SWISS YODELLING SONG PLAYS
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.64,0:04:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you think of Zurich,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.40,0:04:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the last thing you think about is a radical, anarchic art movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.68,0:04:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you might think about is cheese, clocks,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.68,0:04:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Swiss Army knives.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.48,0:04:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But radical art movements? No.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.24,0:04:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was exactly that "There's nothing to see here"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.84,0:04:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reputation, that staying in neutral whilst their neighbours were all
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.40,0:04:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighting to the death that made Zurich the breeding ground for Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.52,0:05:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1916, Europe was tearing itself apart, and some wanted
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.68,0:05:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no further part in the madness and destruction they saw around them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.32,0:05:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amidst the violence and upheaval of the First World War, artists, poets
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.24,0:05:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and freethinkers from both sides of the conflict gathered here in
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.84,0:05:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zurich to avoid the horrors of the battlefront.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.04,0:05:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MUSIC: Boogie Stop Shuffle by Charles Mingus
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.20,0:05:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a city of exiles, and among them a group of unlikely
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.88,0:05:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolutionaries formed a bizarre protest movement - Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.52,0:05:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a world where governments created carnage and the normal order
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.80,0:05:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had become nonsensical, the Dadaists felt the only appropriate
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.32,0:05:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artistic response was to be truly and deliberately absurd.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.80,0:05:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And like all the best world-changing movements,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.76,0:05:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada began here in a dirty, dingy underground drinking hole.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.48,0:05:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With nothing more than the humble dream of selling extra
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.88,0:06:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sausages and beer, the proprietor of this place sanctioned a cabaret.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.68,0:06:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little did he know what he was letting himself in for.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.16,0:06:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Cabaret Voltaire, still here 100 years on, kick-started
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.76,0:06:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a movement that would wreak havoc across Europe and beyond.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.72,0:06:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So, welcome, Jim, to Cabaret Voltaire...\N- Thank you, Adrian.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.72,0:06:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ..the birthplace of Dada.\N- Cheers.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.76,0:06:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, how did the Cabaret Voltaire start here, then?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.44,0:06:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hugo Ball, who was a writer and a director in the theatre in Munich,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.36,0:06:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Emmy Hennings who was a singer in cafes and bars,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.24,0:06:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they came here in 1915 and they were hired in
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.64,0:06:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cabaret just down the street, and after a while they thought,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.12,0:06:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We should have our own cabaret."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.96,0:06:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They send out an invitation to artists.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.56,0:06:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was there any kind of direction,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.64,0:06:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it was just "Do whatever you want to do?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.72,0:06:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, one would say it was an open stage.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.68,0:06:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A free-for-all. \N- Yeah, free-for-all.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.88,0:06:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the Dadaists mobilised themselves for war,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.44,0:07:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but theirs was a battle against reason itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.36,0:07:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BRAIN WHIMPERS LIKE A DOG
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.04,0:07:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hugo Ball appeared in a bizarre bishop's outfit.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.92,0:07:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Romanian poet Tristan Tzara cast a Maori tribal spell.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.28,0:07:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber improvised a dance, wearing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.52,0:07:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cardboard mask.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.92,0:07:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a dozen balalaika players turned up.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.24,0:07:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The German poet Richard Huelsenbeck snapped a riding whip, shouting...
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.32,0:07:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..and was joined by Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco to perform
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.36,0:07:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in German, English and French all at the same time.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.24,0:07:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sounds like a great show.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.88,0:07:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a bit of a shock for the locals.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.64,0:07:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What sort of people did they attract in here, then?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.28,0:07:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- People who come to drink beer and eat sausages and...\N- And absinthe.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.00,0:07:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ..and absinthe, yeah.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.88,0:07:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they didn't come to see somebody talking about art or reciting poems.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.84,0:08:03.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah.\N- Basically they had to be better than the absinthe
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.32,0:08:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or better than beer and sausages.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.52,0:08:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This really reminds me of where I started off.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.08,0:08:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I started off in a pub in Southeast London...\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.92,0:08:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..which was about the same size as this, the same layout,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.72,0:08:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was the same kind of thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.56,0:08:20.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I used to get people out of the audience...\N- Yeah.\N- ..and say, "Do you want to do something?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.40,0:08:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it'd be a different show every week, and it was just, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.20,0:08:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strangely so similar.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.56,0:08:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, did you have some absinthe at that time, maybe, and that's why...?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.84,0:08:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Didn't have absinth, no. We just had lager.\N- Lager.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.64,0:08:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,THEY LAUGH
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.52,0:08:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Hugo Ball, language had been hijacked by the warmongers
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.00,0:08:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who twisted words to justify their violent acts,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.12,0:08:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so out went words and in came some unusual poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.20,0:08:47.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of these words, they're made up, aren't they?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.64,0:08:51.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Bloiko - I could say that in my accent. Bloiko.\N- Bloiko.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.68,0:08:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's nice, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.36,0:08:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ogrogoooo. What is it, the umlaut? There's an umlaut.\N- Ogrogoooo.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.24,0:08:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ogrogoooo.\N- Ogrogoooo.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.96,0:09:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's this? Bulomen.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.76,0:09:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think you can probably get that in a face cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.04,0:09:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ADRIAN LAUGHS
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.08,0:09:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of those words may feel a bit familiar.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.68,0:09:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Uvavu.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.64,0:09:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, look, the audience is in and we're ruining it for them,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.92,0:09:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really, by still being here, so we should make a dramatic entrance...
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.00,0:09:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes.\N- ..very soon.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.56,0:09:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Tonight I'm going to be re-staging one of the founding moments
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.16,0:09:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'in the history of Dada, here at its birthplace.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.12,0:09:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'For Hugo ball's most iconic performance,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.56,0:09:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'he wore his most outlandish outfit.'
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.36,0:09:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we'll try and fit Jim into Hugo's costume.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.52,0:09:39.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JIM LAUGHS
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.52,0:09:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Pull it off.\N- OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.36,0:09:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You misjudged my bulk.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.16,0:09:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'There's a few serious faces in the audience.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.92,0:09:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'God knows what they're going to make of my transformation into Hugo Ball.'
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.48,0:09:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How's that?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.80,0:09:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The words don't make any sense. \N- I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.04,0:10:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- LAUGHTER \N- There's only one word.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.72,0:10:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Don't try and understand, just... \N- I'm not going to.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.88,0:10:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ..go with the flow.\N- Right, start, because my specs are falling off my nose with the sweat.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.00,0:10:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks. LAUGHTER
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.68,0:10:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.40,0:10:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gadjama tuffm i zimzalla binban gligla wowolimai bin beri ban.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.44,0:10:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elifantolim brussala bulomen brussala bulomen tromtata.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.04,0:10:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Velo da bang band affalo purzamai affalo purzamai lengado tor.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.00,0:10:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LAUGHTER
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.96,0:10:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm getting lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.68,0:10:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gaga di bumbalo bumbalo gadjamen.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.24,0:10:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gaga di bling blong.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.64,0:10:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gaga blung.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.96,0:10:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,APPLAUSE
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.88,0:10:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm collapsing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.76,0:10:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take this off. LAUGHTER
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.92,0:11:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you. And there we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.48,0:11:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um...
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.84,0:11:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What was that? LAUGHTER
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.48,0:11:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,APPLAUSE
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.56,0:11:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- His outfit was ridiculous.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.56,0:11:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JIM LAUGHS
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.44,0:11:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm not knocking it at all.\N- OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.40,0:11:20.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, I'm right on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.60,0:11:24.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If he's there, doing his poetry in his magic bishop's costume,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.28,0:11:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's already got a congregation, so he's begun a religion.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.00,0:11:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. And so that's why all these people come here, like a pilgrimage.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.96,0:11:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- And what a great shrine.\N- Yeah. \N- What a fantastic place.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.60,0:11:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- If you've got to have a religion, I'm going to be in here.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.16,0:11:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Hugo Ball wrote that, "Everyone has been seized by an indefinable intoxication.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.88,0:11:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,' "The little cabaret is about to come apart at the seams and is
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.08,0:11:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,' "getting to be a playground for crazy emotions." '
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.80,0:11:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you following me?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.52,0:11:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just five months after it opened, the cabaret closed,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.84,0:12:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but Dada was just beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.56,0:12:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In July 1916, Hugo Ball delivered the first in
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.04,0:12:12.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a series of speeches announcing the Dada Manifestos.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.16,0:12:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These speeches parodied the more grandiose written manifestos
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.72,0:12:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.60,0:12:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada is a new tendency in art. How does one achieve eternal bliss?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.56,0:12:25.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By saying Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.56,0:12:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does one become famous? By saying Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.52,0:12:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A line of poetry is a chance to get rid of all the filth that
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.00,0:12:37.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clings to this accursed language,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.60,0:12:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if put there by a stockbroker's hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.28,0:12:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hands wrought smooth by coins.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.96,0:12:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada is the heart of words.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.68,0:12:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what were they doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.64,0:12:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's say, with the poetry, the meaningless, pointless,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.40,0:12:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,senseless words within the poetry,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.68,0:12:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was it a reaction against the meaningless, senseless,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.72,0:13:01.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pointless war that was surrounding them?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.28,0:13:04.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or were they just trying out something new and having fun with it?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.56,0:13:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.24,0:13:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.32,0:13:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In neighbouring Germany, life was becoming increasingly
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.16,0:13:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,desperate as the war drew to a close,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.56,0:13:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nowhere was this more so than in Berlin.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.16,0:13:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This devastated city would provide the setting for Dada's new
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.68,0:13:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incarnation as the German poet Richard Huelsenbeck returned home from Zurich.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.48,0:13:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Richard Huelsenbeck wound up the crowd,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.56,0:13:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,claiming the Zurich Dadaists were pro-war.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.68,0:13:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And Dadaism is still pro-war today.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.00,0:13:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Things are still not cruel enough."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.16,0:13:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Berlin, Club Dada would unleash a fiercely political rage.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.92,0:13:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The First International Dada Fair shook Berlin with its
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.24,0:13:56.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shocking satire of the German Establishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.60,0:13:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it didn't just tease the Establishment -
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.44,0:14:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it mercilessly mocked the powers that be.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.12,0:14:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Heartfield hung a dummy from the ceiling dressed in German
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.32,0:14:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,military uniform and with a pig's snout for a face.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.96,0:14:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Otto Dix showed veterans disabled by war injuries.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.76,0:14:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These artists took genuine risks,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.36,0:14:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many were arrested for their actions.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.48,0:14:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the male-dominated world of Berlin Dada, Huelsenbeck, Heartfield
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.76,0:14:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Dix met their match in Hannah Hoch.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.80,0:14:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MALE VOICES SCREAM More than holding her own at the art fair,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.24,0:14:34.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hoch satirised the entire German Establishment with her
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.08,0:14:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,masterpiece, Cut With The Kitchen Knife,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.88,0:14:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pioneering a radically subversive new artform - photomontage.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.84,0:14:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada's ground-breaking visual techniques would have a huge
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.84,0:14:50.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,impact on Neville Brody, one of the pioneers of modern graphic design.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.56,0:14:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His interest in Dada has seeped into his cutting edge art
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.88,0:14:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,direction for The Face magazine and his iconic post-punk sleeve
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.76,0:15:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,designs for bands like, you guessed it...
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.64,0:15:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cabaret Voltaire.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.84,0:15:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Neville, here we've got an early bit of photomontage by Hannah Hoch.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.00,0:15:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the Kaiser, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.08,0:15:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this is his moustache here.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.36,0:15:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, this is what I like about it, yeah. Oh, it's two wrestlers.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.48,0:15:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you've got little Hannah Hoch down here,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.76,0:15:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this tiny head is a kind of signature.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.48,0:15:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then these are the countries where women had the right to
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.64,0:15:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vote at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.16,0:15:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the first real kind of powerful use of photomontage
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.24,0:15:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a real tool of subversion.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.32,0:15:40.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why was it? Was it because you'd got photos in newspapers?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.72,0:15:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The free access of, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.88,0:15:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,printed photographs meant that someone like Hannah Hoch could come
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.60,0:15:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in, cut it out, combine it all and create a completely new narrative.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.00,0:15:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a whole new way of looking.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.44,0:15:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Like a big political cartoon as well, isn't it?\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.16,0:15:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was shocking to the bourgeoisie.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.00,0:15:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was deliberately non-aesthetic. It's not pretty.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.84,0:16:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is something that we've seen a lot since.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.20,0:16:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, punk, Jamie Reid, the Sex Pistols covers.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.64,0:16:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Punk hijacked Dada's use of photomontage as
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.52,0:16:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a weapon of subversion,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.32,0:16:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Jamie Reid's Sex Pistols covers to Linder sterling's feminist
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.84,0:16:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artworks and sleeve designs for bands like the Buzzcocks.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.40,0:16:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But punk is only the most obvious child of Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.40,0:16:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Club Dada's striking visuals extended to magazines and journals.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.72,0:16:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I've brought along a copy of the first Dada publication,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.88,0:16:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'and I've got a feeling this is going to be right up Neville's street.'
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.68,0:16:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:43.20,0:16:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is coming directly out of the photomontage approach,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.00,0:16:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now it's typomontage.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.20,0:16:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah, so it's using everything. \N- This is really stunning.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.16,0:16:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an amazing piece of freeform typography.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.16,0:16:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This really was ahead of its time.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.60,0:16:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just looks incredibly modern.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.96,0:17:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a lot of punk stuff that was done that looked like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.76,0:17:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A lot of art in the '60s and 70s had this feel, and the '50s.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:06.56,0:17:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this had a big influence on my work, directly - the idea of going
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.24,0:17:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off-grid, nothing lines up, it's all at an angle,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.56,0:17:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet it has so much energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.84,0:17:18.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It is completely haphazard.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.92,0:17:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually remember I did a whole record cover where all the type was
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.64,0:17:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at angles and the printer helped me by straightening them all up again.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.00,0:17:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "I've fixed it for you now, young man."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.72,0:17:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is beautiful, though, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.56,0:17:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's gorgeous, just an extraordinary piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.24,0:17:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Makes me want to give it up - it's all been done, really, hasn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.08,0:17:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JIM LAUGHS
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.40,0:17:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'A lot of today's generation of graphic designers think
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.00,0:17:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'they're nicking ideas from Neville Brody, but what they don't realise
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.44,0:17:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'is that some of the freshest looking magazine layouts date back to Dada.'
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.84,0:17:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Hannah Hoch and others were busy setting the agenda
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.68,0:17:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for 20th century culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.52,0:17:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one lone wolf managed to grab all of the world's media attention.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.20,0:18:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Architect Johannes Baader was in his own Dada universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.52,0:18:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He called himself Super Dada, or Dada Chief,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.88,0:18:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and announced himself as President Of The Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.80,0:18:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No ego problems there, then.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.48,0:18:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On April Fools' Day,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.72,0:18:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he warned the district of Berlin that Dada forces were on
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.24,0:18:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their way, and 2,000 people were there to fend off the Dada invasion.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.04,0:18:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the time came, he wrote his own obituary but announced his
Dialogue: 0,0:18:28.48,0:18:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resurrection the following day.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.16,0:18:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Richard Huelsenbeck warned,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.08,0:18:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Watch out for Baader, who has nothing to do with our thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.04,0:18:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"He has compromised Dada in Berlin to such an extent with his
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.72,0:18:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"idiocies that I can't even get a small item into the press."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:47.24,0:18:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MUSIC: Let's Dance by David Bowie
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.48,0:18:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to one of the Dada gang, "Dada was a dancing epidemic
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.56,0:18:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"with simultaneous beginnings in different parts of the world."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.32,0:19:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Zurich, Dada had taken a hammer to language.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.88,0:19:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Berlin, it attacked the political Establishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.48,0:19:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now, in New York, Dada took aim at art itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.76,0:19:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JAZZ PIANO MUSIC PLAYS
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.92,0:19:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marcel Duchamp, the king of conceptual art,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:20.92,0:19:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forced the grand old guardians of the art world to ask
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.20,0:19:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves a question they hadn't had to think about before.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.92,0:19:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you put a toilet in art gallery, does that make it art?"
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.04,0:19:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, "Should I start stroking my beard yet?"
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.36,0:19:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Duchamp caused scandal by presenting a urinal signed "R Mutt"
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.88,0:19:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the board of the Society For Independent Artists.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.08,0:19:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was rejected and the story went in Dada journals like The Blind Man.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.80,0:19:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was just one in a series of ready-mades -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.88,0:19:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyday objects exhibited as art -
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.48,0:20:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a closed window,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.88,0:20:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a snow shovel,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:03.40,0:20:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bottle rack,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.40,0:20:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a bicycle wheel.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.76,0:20:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Duchamp provoked the rage of the art establishment still
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.24,0:20:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,further by defacing an old master.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.60,0:20:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A copy at least.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.28,0:20:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He called the work Elle A Chaud Au Cul,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.92,0:20:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which in French sounds just like,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.20,0:20:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"She's got a hot ass."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.32,0:20:29.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the Dadaists, this series of provocations was enough for
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.64,0:20:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Duchamp to gain entry into their club, whether he liked it or not.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.24,0:20:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Artist Cornelia Parker has made art out of everyday objects herself,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:41.60,0:20:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not without flattening them first with a steam roller.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.16,0:20:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's my kind of artist.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.08,0:20:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, for Cornelia, Duchamp, the reluctant Dadaist,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.72,0:20:54.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been a lifelong inspiration.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.40,0:20:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was Marcel Duchamp a Dadaist?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.76,0:21:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a Dadaist by default, I think.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.60,0:21:05.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The toilet...R Mutt's toilet, that's the thing that everyone knows,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.32,0:21:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- isn't it?\N- R Mutt's toilet, yeah, I suppose you introduce the idea of
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.52,0:21:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything you just go and buy in the shop becoming an art object.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.04,0:21:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- And he did, and he caused a big stink.\N- He did.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.68,0:21:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of putting that into a salon where you're supposed
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.88,0:21:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put accepted work seemed to be what it was all about,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.96,0:21:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really, more than the object itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.52,0:21:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of things just started with him,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.48,0:21:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he was just up for anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.80,0:21:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Duchamp sort of opened up this seam, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.52,0:21:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in kind of art that was kind of...everything was quite
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.72,0:21:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stable and quite...progressing nicely,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.44,0:21:40.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he'd just kind of create this big fissure, you know, this
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.68,0:21:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fault-line that allowed other people just to be completely maverick.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.24,0:21:50.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Duchamp's idea for the readymade has inspired generations of
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.20,0:21:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artists since,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.36,0:21:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at the time inspired a collaboration with artist and
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.16,0:21:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,photographer Man Ray.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.40,0:22:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a fantastic photograph by Man Ray of Duchamp's
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.44,0:22:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half-finished sculpture which was called The Large Glass.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.64,0:22:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was allowing dust to accumulate on it,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.20,0:22:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he wanted to incorporate the dust into the piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.56,0:22:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I think he left a note for the cleaner, cos
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.88,0:22:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had a cleaning lady, saying, you know, "Don't touch, dust breeding."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.76,0:22:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Did Man Ray come round to his house and then...?\N- Spot it and like it? \N- And Marcel said,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.84,0:22:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here, have a look at this, look at all this dust I'm breeding here."
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.72,0:22:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says, "We'll just take a picture of it, shall we?"
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.12,0:22:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm sure it went something like that.\N- I bet it is, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.32,0:22:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think some of the best art is serendipitous.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.84,0:22:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I quite like the idea of, you know, negligence becoming art. \N- CORNELIA LAUGHS
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.48,0:22:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. And have you been influenced by Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.72,0:22:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm very influenced by Duchamp. I think he's, most probably, if
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.72,0:22:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to pick one artist to say that he's had the most influence on me.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.56,0:22:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.52,0:22:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada managed to be really infantile and outrageous but at the
Dialogue: 0,0:22:54.60,0:22:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,same time made people think about things afresh.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.08,0:23:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm off with Cornelia to stage our own Dada intervention.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:02.48,0:23:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MUSIC: Da Funk by Daft Punk
Dialogue: 0,0:23:04.60,0:23:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It'll pay tribute to both the politics of Club Dada in Berlin
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.56,0:23:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the irreverence of New York Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.88,0:23:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's taking us to Bond Street, where war leaders
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.12,0:23:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Churchill and Roosevelt hold court.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.68,0:23:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's see who gets arrested first.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.40,0:23:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you think I'll get arrested... I'm more likely to get arrested with balaclavas?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.88,0:23:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think you'll get more arrested than me. THEY LAUGH
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.00,0:23:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Here are the boys. \N- Right, so, are you ready?\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.84,0:23:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's my Dadaist act for the day.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.20,0:23:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That's great, don't you think?\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.32,0:23:53.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks really menacing.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.72,0:23:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shall we leave them on for a couple of minutes to see what people think?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.04,0:24:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I think Cornelia's gone for political Dada -
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.68,0:24:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'she's made them into terrorists.'
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.80,0:24:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police don't seem to have noticed yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.56,0:24:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Right, now it's my turn to give these old geezers
Dialogue: 0,0:24:10.72,0:24:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'a 21st century face-lift.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.76,0:24:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'I'm thinking absurdo-Dada is more my style.'
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.72,0:24:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MUSIC: I've Told Every Little Star by Linda Scott
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.08,0:24:21.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'That should bring them down to scale.'
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.96,0:24:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- There.\N- That's great, I love it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.56,0:24:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These need you on, darling.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.40,0:24:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I'll go on here.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.32,0:24:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.96,0:24:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What does it mean then?\N- What does it mean?\N- What have we done?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.04,0:24:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, this is almost...well, it's 100 years after Dadaism,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.88,0:24:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- so this is...\N- Is it a student prank?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.92,0:24:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think it's a student prank... \N- It kind of feels like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.32,0:24:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a student prank, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.40,0:24:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I liked your balaclavas, I think, best.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.56,0:24:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Did you?\N- Yeah. It was more of a striking effect.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.04,0:24:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was slightly more edgy. People enjoy this one more, I think.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.72,0:24:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mine was most probably a bit more like... \N- SIREN WAILS
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.96,0:24:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..you know, like Pussy Riot or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.88,0:24:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do you think so?\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.28,0:25:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here come the coppers.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.60,0:25:03.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What should we do - just leave it there?\N- Well, we could.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.24,0:25:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Should we just walk off and leave it?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.24,0:25:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I suppose the whole legacy of Dada means that people
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.72,0:25:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been defacing statues for a long time, haven't they?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.60,0:25:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usually the traffic cone is the favourite one.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.16,0:25:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you've got Banksy.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.64,0:25:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just being cheeky. No. CORNELIA LAUGHS
Dialogue: 0,0:25:26.20,0:25:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, it's a bit more, I don't know,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.32,0:25:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it came out of a more political time, didn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.44,0:25:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For some reason I always thought Dadaism was
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.16,0:25:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little less benign than Surrealism.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.36,0:25:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Well, that's its brilliance for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.56,0:25:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Dada can be the provocative dangerous artform Cornelia is
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.60,0:25:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'drawn to, but it's also the original inspiration for mindless
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.88,0:25:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'student pranks.'
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.44,0:26:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in Zurich, Tristan Tzara, who we last saw casting a tribal spell
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.04,0:26:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Cabaret Voltaire, was taking Dada in a radical new direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.20,0:26:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With new publications springing up by the second,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:09.08,0:26:13.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada's next target was the world of mass communication.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.96,0:26:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tzara planned to trick the papers with a fake press release.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.36,0:26:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tzara was using Dada's subversive energy
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.20,0:26:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to mock the new media culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:26.68,0:26:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NEWS JINGLE PLAYS
Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.80,0:26:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a pistol duel yesterday on the Rehalp near Zurich, between
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.04,0:26:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tristan Tzara, familiar founder of Dada, and Dada painter Hans Arp.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.88,0:26:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Four rounds were fired and, in the fourth exchange,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.64,0:26:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arp was slightly grazed on his left thigh.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:49.04,0:26:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Armando Iannucci.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.04,0:26:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you respond to this?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:53.40,0:26:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well, this is literally news to me. \N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:55.80,0:26:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm going to put the hands down. \N- Yeah, I'm going to stop doing this.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:58.48,0:27:00.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was an article,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.32,0:27:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was written by the Dadaists and sent out
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.60,0:27:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to various publications and newspapers, and was printed.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.64,0:27:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was all made up. It was fake.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.44,0:27:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is something that is very contemporary,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.88,0:27:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because nowadays, you know, there's so much,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.08,0:27:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, 24-hour media and newspapers that have websites
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.16,0:27:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- that need filling, so if you sent them a press release now...\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.20,0:27:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..it will appear as a story, even though it's word-for-word
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.04,0:27:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quoting the press release that you sent out.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.16,0:27:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, what Dada is saying is that something that sounds very
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.84,0:27:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serious and true might not be serious and might not be true.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.88,0:27:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember, about 20 years ago, we did a show called On The Hour, which
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.60,0:27:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was like a false news programme, but we actually did a...we made a report
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.76,0:27:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about an abattoir where the cows were actually rising from the dead.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:47.32,0:27:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.24,0:27:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..and it nearly got on the Today programme.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.60,0:27:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We submitted it as from a Bristol reporter for BBC Bristol,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.56,0:27:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was all lined up,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.36,0:28:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and John Humphrys had written his introduction and everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.00,0:28:04.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we came seconds away from it being played live.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.44,0:28:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Armando Iannucci has made an art out of Dadaist manipulation with
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.84,0:28:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shows like The Day Today.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.08,0:28:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,News.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.32,0:28:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,London Transport say they may have to close the Underground
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.00,0:28:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system due to an infestation of horses.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.72,0:28:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A report described the conditions in the equine plague as
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.44,0:28:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"like an abattoir in a power cut".
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.44,0:28:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To inspire other would-be Dadaists, Tristan Tzara published
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.28,0:28:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a set of instructions on how to tear up newspaper articles and
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.52,0:28:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reassemble them.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:33.68,0:28:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take a newspaper. Take some scissors.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.88,0:28:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choose from this paper an article.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.48,0:28:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next, carefully cut out each of the words that make up this
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.04,0:28:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,article and put them all together in a bag.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.48,0:28:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shake gently.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:48.56,0:28:52.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next, take out each cutting, one after the other.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.00,0:28:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:56.32,0:28:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- OK.\N- Right, so tip it out.\N- Right.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:58.64,0:28:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, let's...
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.96,0:29:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the way they've fallen out.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:01.92,0:29:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're updating squeaky-voiced felt."
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.24,0:29:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hang on.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.96,0:29:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Cumberbatch appeared correct where cardboard catchphrases,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:11.84,0:29:15.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"occasionally sometimes correct," it says.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.76,0:29:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Which kind of sums up random words. \N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.12,0:29:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what they were beginning to explore was that idea that,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.48,0:29:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, we take so much of what we're being told for granted.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.60,0:29:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're seeing it as the voice of authority and infallible,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.00,0:29:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- and they're saying it's not, really. \N- Yeah.\N- It's just words.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.84,0:29:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you, thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.76,0:29:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been recording a music video, and it goes like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.28,0:29:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,# I'm hardcore and I know the score
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.52,0:29:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,# I am disgusted by the poor
Dialogue: 0,0:29:47.84,0:29:50.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,# And my chums matter more because we are the law
Dialogue: 0,0:29:50.60,0:29:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,# And I've made sure we're ready for class war. #
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.56,0:29:56.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cut-up, today, is such a prevalent form.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.76,0:30:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deconstructing what you think of as true and telling you it's just,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.80,0:30:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, it's just an assembly of information which you could
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.12,0:30:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put out in another combination.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.52,0:30:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any source of any information can be cut and connected...
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.84,0:30:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- But this is a random combination. \N- Yeah.\N- That's the difference.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.64,0:30:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what's happening now is people are trying to do
Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.16,0:30:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something more coherent with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.44,0:30:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is Tristan Tzara's unpatented idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.32,0:30:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- but it's led to fridge magnet poetry.\N- Fridge magnet poetry.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.00,0:30:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's led to the whole of the internet, which consists
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.80,0:30:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly of people cutting up bits of film and television.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.56,0:30:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea that we can all reedit -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:38.76,0:30:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one day this is how all programmes will be made.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.92,0:30:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's great. Thank you.'
Dialogue: 0,0:30:45.92,0:30:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,THEY CHUCKLE
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.48,0:30:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DRAMATIC NEWS SHOW MUSIC
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.32,0:30:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada poets and artists jumped on the creative opportunities
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.72,0:30:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provided by cut-up, using the process for more than just satire.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.72,0:31:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes, a painting doesn't go the way you want it to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.00,0:31:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Damn you, fine artwork!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:06.36,0:31:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this happened to artist Jean Arp, who was so frustrated,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.88,0:31:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he ripped up the painting and let the pieces land on the floor and
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.80,0:31:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where they landed, he decided that
Dialogue: 0,0:31:21.56,0:31:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was exactly what he wanted
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.96,0:31:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the first place.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.08,0:31:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not bad, actually. It's pretty good.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.56,0:31:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Arp's wasn't too bad either.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.24,0:31:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. Yes. Hello. Thank you. Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.44,0:31:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This Dadaist principle of tearing everything up re-emerged in
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.92,0:31:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'60s counter culture and nowhere more so than with
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.84,0:31:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,William Burroughs, who made an art out of chance happening with
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.00,0:31:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his fragmented poetry, tape cut-ups, and even randomly reassembled films.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.40,0:31:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. Yes. Where are we? Hello. Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.52,0:32:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:00.60,0:32:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Burroughs' artistic experiments would trigger
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.36,0:32:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new wave of cut-up in the second half of the century, passing on
Dialogue: 0,0:32:06.80,0:32:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his Dadaist technique to musicians, from Paul McCartney to David Bowie.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.52,0:32:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I've used it for more than anything else is igniting
Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.68,0:32:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything that might be in my imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.12,0:32:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've tried doing it with diaries and things and I was finding out
Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.44,0:32:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazing things about me and what I'd done and where I was going.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.16,0:32:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a lot of the things that I'd done, it seemed that it would
Dialogue: 0,0:32:30.36,0:32:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,predict things about the future, or tell me a lot about the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.72,0:32:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know, let's see what happens.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.84,0:32:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,# I'm an alligator
Dialogue: 0,0:32:45.16,0:32:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,# I'm a momma-papa... #
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.04,0:32:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From our pop stars to our counter cultural heroes,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.28,0:32:53.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're all a little bit under the influence of Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.68,0:32:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1919, the Dada epidemic hit Cologne.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.44,0:33:01.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each time it spread, Dada mutated and evolved.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.52,0:33:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Zurich Dada had introduced absurdist nonsense, Berlin Dada had targeted
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.24,0:33:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the political establishment, and New York Dadaists sent up the art world.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.24,0:33:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, in Cologne, it was all about shock for shock's sake.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.84,0:33:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Cologne publication called the Berlin Dadaists
Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.64,0:33:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,counterfeits of Dada for their strongly held beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.40,0:33:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It claimed, they can neither shit nor pee without ideologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.64,0:33:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Cologne Dada lacked in politics, it made up for in anarchy.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:39.04,0:33:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Dada early spring exhibition incensed audiences with an
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.84,0:33:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entrance via a public urinal of a beer hall and on the way in,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.76,0:33:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the public were showered with obscenities.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:50.00,0:33:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BLEEP. BLEEP. BLEEP.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.08,0:33:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Audiences were so incensed that they destroyed artworks in fits of rage.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:57.88,0:34:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Max Ernst, the leader of Cologne Dada, actively encouraged
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.64,0:34:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this destruction, displaying a sculpture with an axe attached.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.04,0:34:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The police said, "Enough is enough!" and closed down the show.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:14.36,0:34:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To find out what all this anarchy and destruction was about,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.92,0:34:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to meet Michael Landy,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.04,0:34:24.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the mischievous Young British Artists who introduced
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.44,0:34:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada's shock tactics to a new generation in the '90s.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.04,0:34:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michael is best known for destroying all of his possessions
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.76,0:34:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the name of art.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:38.08,0:34:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.96,0:34:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And judging by the look of his house,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:42.00,0:34:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he hasn't replaced many of them since.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.28,0:34:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DRAMATIC WESTERN STYLE MUSIC
Dialogue: 0,0:34:57.92,0:35:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Cologne, Max Ernst had a wooden sculpture with an axe
Dialogue: 0,0:35:02.08,0:35:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attached to it, so that they could destroy it.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.68,0:35:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh, yeah. \N- What do you know about that?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.92,0:35:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Destruction in art has kind of, like, a long history, really.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:10.40,0:35:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think Dada was like, it brought, like, destruction...
Dialogue: 0,0:35:15.32,0:35:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not necessarily nihilistic, it can also be creative.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.08,0:35:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.28,0:35:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Picasso talks about having, like, every time you make a painting,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:23.48,0:35:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a sense, it's a kind of mini-destruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.88,0:35:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, you've got to take things apart to recreate, in a sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.76,0:35:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to take the previous generation apart, in a sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.16,0:35:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to almost, like, dismiss what they do and kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.32,0:35:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recreate yourself with a whole new set of values.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:41.32,0:35:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cos you did your destruction...
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.40,0:35:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, I destroyed all my worldly belongings, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:46.32,0:35:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Was it absolutely everything? \N- At the time, yeah, at the age of 37.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.12,0:35:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And how did you destroy it?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:51.76,0:35:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't get an axe to it or anything like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.00,0:35:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was actually a quite methodical way of doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.72,0:35:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So did you destroy your artwork as well?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.84,0:36:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, I destroyed my artwork, I destroyed my friends' artwork.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.40,0:36:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So would you say that was a Dadaist thing to do?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:05.80,0:36:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, in some respects, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.48,0:36:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say it's a pretty absurd thing to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.68,0:36:12.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, and it did get up people's noses because obviously
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.32,0:36:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- people work their whole lives to acquire things, don't they?\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:15.92,0:36:18.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there I was, destroying them all.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.68,0:36:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michael Landy and his mates shocked the art world in the
Dialogue: 0,0:36:22.64,0:36:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'90s with the notorious Sensation exhibition.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.40,0:36:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was Damien Hirst with his shark,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.28,0:36:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tracey Emin with her unmade bed,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.52,0:36:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Marcus Harvey with his portrait of serial killer Myra Hindley,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.40,0:36:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made with child handprints.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:39.76,0:36:43.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But while Cologne Dada had its show shut down by the police,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.64,0:36:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the YBA's just provoked a few headlines in the tabloids.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.80,0:36:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You were involved in the Sensation show, weren't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.84,0:36:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hands up, I was, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.28,0:36:58.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, Sensation is like a collection of Charles Saatchi's.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.72,0:37:01.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, Dada is like...
Dialogue: 0,0:37:01.64,0:37:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're a group of artists who create manifestos, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.04,0:37:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have like shared ideologies.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.68,0:37:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the only similarity would be the media.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.24,0:37:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada was being more provocative than I am and their audience is
Dialogue: 0,0:37:15.40,0:37:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very conservative. I mean, what people think of art is like
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.88,0:37:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a nice landscape painting or a nice cherub in bronze.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.20,0:37:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't think, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:23.76,0:37:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a mannequin with a light bulb on its head is art.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:26.28,0:37:29.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah.\N- So they're trying to shock people, aren't they?\N- Yeah, they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.44,0:37:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what they're trying to... Get up their noses and make them angry.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:32.84,0:37:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. So, any final thoughts on Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:37:37.16,0:37:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd just like to thank Dada really for paving the way for people
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.56,0:37:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like me to come along.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.60,0:37:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah. Thank you, Dada. \N- Thank you, Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.04,0:37:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HE CHUCKLES
Dialogue: 0,0:37:48.72,0:37:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've brought a piece of artwork along with me for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:52.36,0:37:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do you know the history of me and artwork?\N- I know, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:55.72,0:37:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of my prized possessions.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.60,0:38:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well, now, you're making me feel bad. You can take it home.\N- No.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.52,0:38:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I want you to do what you've got to do with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.04,0:38:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could make you do it. I'd feel much better.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.16,0:38:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You can follow my instructions. \N- Have you got any ideas?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.84,0:38:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Maybe show it to me first. \N- So I'll go and get the plate.\N- OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.40,0:38:13.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we'll talk about how to destroy.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:13.88,0:38:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- How we're going to get rid of it. \N- Yeah, here it is.\N- Aw.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.76,0:38:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a wedding plate for Bill and Cath.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:19.72,0:38:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,William and you know...the royals.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.60,0:38:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the classic way,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.80,0:38:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I suppose of destroying it is the Grecian way, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:28.72,0:38:31.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I like the idea of poking it off something.\N- OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.36,0:38:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could poke it off the top of my head.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.48,0:38:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- We could balance on top of my head and you could push it off.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.72,0:38:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You know where your broom... \N- I've got a flat head. I'll go and get the broom.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.16,0:38:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- OK, I'll try and balance on my head. \N- Yeah. Right, are you ready?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.80,0:38:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LOUD CLATTER
Dialogue: 0,0:38:56.16,0:38:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Did that break?\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:57.40,0:38:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:58.96,0:39:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That looks nice now, I like that. \N- Yeah, that looks nice.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:01.60,0:39:04.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah, I like that as well.\N- I could sellotape that back together.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:04.48,0:39:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Are you going to sweep that up and put it in a poitrine?\N- In a latrine?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.48,0:39:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- In a poitrine, yeah. Not a latrine.\N- Put a cloche over it.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:11.68,0:39:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A what?\N- A cloche.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.40,0:39:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,THEY CHUCKLE
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.04,0:39:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'When I do silly things in my comedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.32,0:39:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'it's a bit of throwaway fun,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:19.76,0:39:23.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'but when I do them with an esteemed Young British Artist, I am
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.16,0:39:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'surely creating a piece of Dadaist performance art!'
Dialogue: 0,0:39:26.80,0:39:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You find me, several tenths of my way through this journey and
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.60,0:39:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exploration into what is Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.16,0:39:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've spoken to several people,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.48,0:39:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of which seem to have varying ideas about Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.84,0:39:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Was it political, anarchic? Was it comedy? What was it?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:42.88,0:39:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was probably all of those things and more.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:45.52,0:39:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I can say is since the beginning,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.88,0:39:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought I had quite a good idea about what Dada is.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:50.88,0:39:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I'm probably more confused now,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.12,0:39:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I shall continue my journey and find out what exactly is Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.16,0:40:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SQUEALING
Dialogue: 0,0:40:02.88,0:40:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,UM!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:05.40,0:40:08.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help me answer that question, I'm meeting the man who updated
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.76,0:40:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada's absurdist style for my generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.04,0:40:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,FANFARE
Dialogue: 0,0:40:18.68,0:40:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, where is he?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:21.44,0:40:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,FANFARE
Dialogue: 0,0:40:26.20,0:40:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Strangers meeting in the night.\N- I never expected to see you here.\N- No.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.12,0:40:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Take a seat.\N- What are you doing here?\N- I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.88,0:40:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What are you doing here? \N- I don't know. A car brought me.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.56,0:40:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know nothing!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.92,0:40:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's find out!
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.96,0:40:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Terry, what does Dada mean to you, if anything?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.92,0:40:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never seriously thought about what it means to me. It just is.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:49.52,0:40:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do you know what it is?\N- Yeah. I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.84,0:40:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what was interesting, the fact that it was anti-war,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:56.08,0:40:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was a reaction to the First World War,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.56,0:41:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a reaction to bourgeois society, and these very boring tastes.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:04.84,0:41:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the anger is what's interesting about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.44,0:41:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how they were angry about the world nightmare they were living in
Dialogue: 0,0:41:10.88,0:41:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet, you deal with it in different ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.04,0:41:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's the humour side that we always went for.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.16,0:41:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that what it was? Was there a war going on,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.60,0:41:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we're going to have to have fun and lighten the situation?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.12,0:41:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or you go absurd. You go totally Absurdist.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.20,0:41:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we're in an absurd situation, a complete nightmare out there,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.04,0:41:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, let's create nightmares and throw it back at society and
Dialogue: 0,0:41:33.72,0:41:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see if you can shake it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.56,0:41:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That's a really good point cos it really was just madness.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:39.76,0:41:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I left America because of the Vietnam War and all of
Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.36,0:41:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that and I realised I was more...
Dialogue: 0,0:41:45.48,0:41:49.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was more Dadaist than I realised
Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.40,0:41:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because completely against the war, I hated the way society was
Dialogue: 0,0:41:53.88,0:41:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,structured and behaving, and I wanted to make people laugh.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.36,0:41:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah.\N- Bah-boom!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.64,0:42:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MUMBLING SINGING WAGNER
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.76,0:42:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BLESSING IN LATIN
Dialogue: 0,0:42:11.20,0:42:15.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What interests me is how many artists that I've always been
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.36,0:42:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either copying, admiring, or being influenced by,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.20,0:42:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were the Dadaists, and George Melly wrote a review of Python and
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.72,0:42:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he referred to me as a product of Max Ernst. Wow!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.52,0:42:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So you weren't aware before...? \N- I was only aware of his paintings.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.76,0:42:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't aware of his collages.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:44.00,0:42:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a film by Hans Richter, who was a Dadaist.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:47.56,0:42:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at this.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:49.44,0:42:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called Ghosts Before Breakfast.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.32,0:43:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The silly walk!\N- It is, look. That's it. Isn't it?\N- Yup!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.84,0:43:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, who saw that then?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:03.92,0:43:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Probably nobody. \N- Is it just a coincidence?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.72,0:43:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's what I love about things, how coincidental things can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.00,0:43:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah.\N- We were just doing it. We weren't aware of what we were doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:14.48,0:43:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a bubbling pot, isn't there? Where Dadaists pop out like
Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.12,0:43:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bubbles and they're not aware that they are being called Dadaists!
Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.80,0:43:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah. I know.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.04,0:43:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it was easier when we were doing Python, certainly for me,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.96,0:43:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming to this country, the categories are more clear.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.48,0:43:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the bankers, City guys, pin stripe suits,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:36.28,0:43:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bowler hats, working class, look like working class,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.80,0:43:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the middle class was the middle class.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:41.64,0:43:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I think it's harder to be Dadaist right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.20,0:43:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's ripe for a new uprising of Dadaism.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.00,0:43:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's really hard to get to grips with cos you can't find
Dialogue: 0,0:43:52.88,0:43:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the enemy is.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:54.60,0:43:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't react against it cos it's so atomised now.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.08,0:44:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SWANEE WHISTLE
Dialogue: 0,0:44:08.16,0:44:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the early '20s, with the war over,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.84,0:44:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the global outposts of Dada converged in Paris.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.64,0:44:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, Tristan Tzara from Zurich,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:18.64,0:44:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray from New York...
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.88,0:44:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oi, Marcel!
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.48,0:44:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,..and then, Max Ernst from Cologne.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:29.40,0:44:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A new supergroup was formed.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.32,0:44:38.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paris Dada offered its groupies more spectacle and more sheer
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.84,0:44:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,silliness than anything that had gone before.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.16,0:44:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Dada with bells on.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.00,0:44:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BELLS SHAKE
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.56,0:44:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HE HUMS FLORAL DANCE
Dialogue: 0,0:44:54.32,0:44:56.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By way of self-promotion,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.64,0:44:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Dadaists plastered stickers across the city.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:03.44,0:45:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,BELL RINGS AND DROWNS OUT SPEECH
Dialogue: 0,0:45:20.36,0:45:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Francis Picabia made a drawing on a blackboard and then erased it
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.00,0:45:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the exhibition.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:30.32,0:45:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to announce the opening of a Man Ray exhibition,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:35.16,0:45:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the space was filled
Dialogue: 0,0:45:37.12,0:45:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with balloons and the Dadaists popped them as people came in.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.88,0:45:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paris audiences were so outraged,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.20,0:45:48.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they threw tomatoes and raw meat at them.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.44,0:45:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I'm meeting an artist who knows exactly how it feels to be on
Dialogue: 0,0:45:52.48,0:45:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the receiving end of groceries.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.16,0:45:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin Creed's Turner Prize-winning show,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.60,0:46:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Lights Going On And Off, which consisted of the lights going
Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.40,0:46:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on and off, invited the question - is this art?
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.88,0:46:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And prompted some gallery goers to throw eggs at the wall.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:09.16,0:46:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So this is your studio?\N- Yeah.\N- Well, show us around?\N- Well, so there's...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.24,0:46:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- These are paintings.\N- Oh, yeah. I've heard about them.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.24,0:46:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That's a bag.\N- Yeah. \N- That's a bag, that says...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:21.92,0:46:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That actually says "whatever".
Dialogue: 0,0:46:25.56,0:46:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh, yeah. \N- There's some boxes here.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.08,0:46:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What's this?\N- A knitting thing with the stripes getting bigger.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:33.12,0:46:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What's it going to be? \N- No, that is what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.24,0:46:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh, is it? \N- This is a pair of trousers
Dialogue: 0,0:46:39.00,0:46:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been working on.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:40.76,0:46:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What are you going to do with them? \N- Well, just erm...
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.96,0:46:49.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- ..wear them. \N- JIM CHUCKLES
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.24,0:46:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Wow!\N- That is a hat.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:52.08,0:46:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- How does it look?\N- Looks good.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:53.80,0:46:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aye.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.96,0:46:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What is that?\N- That's a Panda. A Fiat Panda.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:02.16,0:47:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what about Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.04,0:47:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got anything that's Dadaesque in here?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.64,0:47:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Er, I don't, well, I don't know about, I don't know,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:09.88,0:47:17.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- maybe a lot of it is because I think it's sort of a bit stupid.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:17.12,0:47:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know? I think that's...
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.80,0:47:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That's what Dada is. \N- Aye, like being stupid.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.48,0:47:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's political meaning and then you've got to balance that
Dialogue: 0,0:47:24.76,0:47:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- with the daftness or the stupidness. \N- Right, aye.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.72,0:47:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cos I'd probably fall on the daft side.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:29.52,0:47:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would go...I think I would definitely fall on the stupid side.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:33.40,0:47:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'd be even further, right the other end!
Dialogue: 0,0:47:36.32,0:47:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:38.72,0:47:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cos I think it's like more, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.16,0:47:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- it's more like life, cos life's stupid.\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.00,0:47:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Like the Dadaists, Martin filled the gallery half full with balloons.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:51.72,0:47:54.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'His works are starting to feel rather familiar.'
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.96,0:47:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That was your idea, wasn't it? Balloons.\N- I didn't know about that.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.84,0:48:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what I've been finding,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:01.12,0:48:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Dadaists did have a lot of ideas for the first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.04,0:48:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah, it looks like it, aye. \N- And, um...
Dialogue: 0,0:48:08.32,0:48:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- and then you had them later. \N- Right!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.72,0:48:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,THEY LAUGH
Dialogue: 0,0:48:13.16,0:48:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just wandering about here.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:15.72,0:48:18.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, who knows what they were really trying to do, those people?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.76,0:48:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I don't know.\N- I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:21.00,0:48:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.52,0:48:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't know either, but, aye, I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:28.28,0:48:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I don't know.\N- I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:30.60,0:48:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, there we are then, that's the answer to that, isn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:35.92,0:48:38.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there any reason behind any of your stuff?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.44,0:48:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe it's trying to do what you're not supposed to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.32,0:48:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I did this film of people being sick,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:43.60,0:48:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of people shitting as well,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:46.44,0:48:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just cos it's a taboo of our, like, British society.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:53.08,0:48:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And are you allowed to go into a gallery and laugh your head off.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:58.04,0:49:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, well, I would have thought so, aye.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:00.92,0:49:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That's what I encourage whenever I have my shows.\N- Aye.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.20,0:49:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Martin's invited me to join him in his latest nonsensical idea,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:12.08,0:49:14.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'blind painting.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.40,0:49:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'So I'm going to do a portrait with absolutely no idea
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.36,0:49:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'what it's going to look like.'
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.88,0:49:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It is weird, isn't it?\N- It is weird.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:51.80,0:49:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think I'm done. \N- Yeah, I think I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.96,0:49:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Right.\N- So we're going to...
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.92,0:49:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What are we going to do, just show? \N- Oh, aye, OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.56,0:50:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whoa!
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.44,0:50:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:01.76,0:50:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,THEY LAUGH
Dialogue: 0,0:50:06.36,0:50:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh, God.\N- Oh, it's dripping.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:08.04,0:50:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put them down on here.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:09.60,0:50:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aye. Don't want it to drip. Amazing.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.12,0:50:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So has this got anything to do with Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.44,0:50:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I suppose it's just a new idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:19.28,0:50:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe cos it's like trying to do it the way you're not
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.36,0:50:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supposed to do it, cos you find that if you're going to do
Dialogue: 0,0:50:23.56,0:50:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- a picture of something you should... \N- So it's getting rid of
Dialogue: 0,0:50:25.96,0:50:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- all conventions. \N- ..at least look at what your...
Dialogue: 0,0:50:28.12,0:50:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like, you know, if you try to control things
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.20,0:50:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- it doesn't necessarily make them better, you know?\N- Yeah.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.20,0:50:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This has got no bearing on anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.36,0:50:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Paris Tristan Tzara achieved his dream by gathering together
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.40,0:50:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the Dadaists to form a movement, Movement Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:59.00,0:51:02.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the culmination of all the nonsense of Dada,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:02.68,0:51:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for a brief moment Dada was the talk of the town.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:08.80,0:51:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for some, like Max Ernst and Man Ray, the nonsense was wearing thin.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.16,0:51:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'd begun searching for meaning through dreams and the subconscious.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.28,0:51:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man Ray famously took a metronome, cut out an eye from a photograph,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.88,0:51:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put them together and made a new work, Object To Be Destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:28.12,0:51:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I might have a go myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:33.92,0:51:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Connect and print. Is that what I do?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.24,0:51:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enter the password.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:38.16,0:51:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shove a little bit of light music on.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:41.84,0:51:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,MUSIC: Left Bank Two by The Noveltones
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.20,0:51:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is something blurry happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.20,0:51:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you cut out an eye.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.76,0:52:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he stuck the eye on the metronome
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.80,0:52:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there...
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.24,0:52:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he had a new work,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:09.84,0:52:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Object To Be Destroyed.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.92,0:52:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with all the Dadaists all going off in different directions
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.32,0:52:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was nothing holding this movement together
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.68,0:52:31.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, what's more, egos were taking over.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:32.96,0:52:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Tristan Tzara, right, he wanted to be the leader of the Dadaists.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:36.88,0:52:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, look at me, I want to be the king of the Dadaists!"
Dialogue: 0,0:52:39.80,0:52:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact they used to call him Tzar Tristan.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.52,0:52:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But soon Dada had rivals in the Paris art world,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.16,0:52:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including the French poet Andre Breton, and he was
Dialogue: 0,0:52:49.00,0:52:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting up the noses of other poets as well, like Paul Eluard.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.88,0:52:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada was about to reach its bitter end in July 1923
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.20,0:53:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Soiree Of The Bearded Heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:02.20,0:53:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So early on in the evening, Andre Breton takes offence at some
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.32,0:53:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,performer and whacks him with his cane and gets thrown out, then
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.28,0:53:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bit later on, just before Tristan Tzara's play The Gas Heart
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.72,0:53:18.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is on, there's like a rumpus going on in the stalls.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:18.72,0:53:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then who is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.28,0:53:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's Paul Eluard, the poet. He demands to see Tristan Tzara,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:23.60,0:53:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so Tristan Tzara comes out, they have a pushing and shoving match
Dialogue: 0,0:53:26.28,0:53:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then Paul Eluard lamps Tristan Tzara,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.04,0:53:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he goes down and that was it, you know, it was kind of all over
Dialogue: 0,0:53:33.68,0:53:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by then really, so we went off to the boozer to talk about it,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:36.68,0:53:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had a right old laugh.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:38.96,0:53:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada had died a death.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.40,0:53:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But some Dadaists, like Max Ernst and Man Ray,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:44.52,0:53:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found another gang to join,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.40,0:53:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,jumping ship to Andre Breton's new art movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:50.32,0:53:52.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surrealism.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:53.28,0:53:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I don't know if anyone really, really and honestly knew
Dialogue: 0,0:53:56.44,0:53:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Dada was all about yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.48,0:54:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to be honest, neither do I.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.56,0:54:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But perhaps if I look out on this historic city,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.04,0:54:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take in its atmosphere, I might get a feel for Dada
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.96,0:54:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally get to grips with this contradictory movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:21.76,0:54:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, Paris didn't do much for Dadaism,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:24.32,0:54:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, to be honest, it's not doing a lot for me either.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:27.48,0:54:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm off.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:34.96,0:54:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Terry! Terry!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.12,0:54:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is... What is Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:40.16,0:54:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come on, what is Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.36,0:54:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Leave me alone! Leave me alone!\N- What is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:46.76,0:54:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What is Dada?\N- I'm not going to tell him, I'm not going to tell him.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:51.88,0:54:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.00,0:54:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone needs a shed to go to when all else has failed.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:00.80,0:55:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:02.32,0:55:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is Dada? What...is Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:06.08,0:55:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- VOICE ECHOES: \N- Eh, what do you reckon?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.04,0:55:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turkey. Tutankhamen.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.88,0:55:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hello.\N- What?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:14.16,0:55:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moon River, wider than a mile.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.08,0:55:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:19.68,0:55:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:21.00,0:55:23.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, Arthur Smith at your service here.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.24,0:55:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What exactly is Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.92,0:55:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada is a virgin microbe that fills up all the space
Dialogue: 0,0:55:31.60,0:55:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that reason cannot with its convention.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:35.20,0:55:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good, glad you sorted that out for me, then.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:37.68,0:55:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, I mean, in a sense, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.36,0:55:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you start trying to analyse it then you'll end up
Dialogue: 0,0:55:42.56,0:55:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disappearing up your own bottom, and it recognises that.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.84,0:55:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So some people reckon is political, some people think it's just
Dialogue: 0,0:55:50.48,0:55:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stupid absurdist comedy, or is it all of it? What is it?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:54.56,0:55:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to defy convention and logic in order to amaze
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.80,0:56:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stimulate people, I suppose.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:03.08,0:56:06.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada gave a licence for people to be stupid and in some sense
Dialogue: 0,0:56:06.96,0:56:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is the founder of modern comedy and you've definitely acted on
Dialogue: 0,0:56:11.88,0:56:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your licence to be stupid, and Vic and all your mates, so well done.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:18.04,0:56:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:19.64,0:56:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I'm stuck here alone in my bar,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:21.88,0:56:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're stuck there alone in your bar,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:24.20,0:56:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet we're together, Jim, that's a kind of Dadaism all by itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:28.84,0:56:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's beautiful.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:30.76,0:56:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Right, where do I go from here?'
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.80,0:56:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're nearly at the end of our voyage, and have we discovered anything?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:46.48,0:56:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, I think we have. I think we know a little bit more about Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:49.76,0:56:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know more about Dada? Do I know more about Dada?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:52.76,0:56:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do, but do you?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:55.04,0:56:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't and you do.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:57.20,0:57:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think one thing that we have learned is that a bloke
Dialogue: 0,0:57:01.32,0:57:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the BBC, that's me, sitting on a pedestal,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.92,0:57:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can't tell you what to think.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:05.64,0:57:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll put it all together in the edit anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:08.36,0:57:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dada is...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:09.92,0:57:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Completely...\N- Maverick...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.36,0:57:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Deconstructing... \N- This serious idea about...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:14.36,0:57:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Art...\N- It's just an assembly...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:17.04,0:57:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Of artists who create... \N- Art that was...\N- Incredibly modern...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.76,0:57:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Very...\N- Coincidental...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:21.20,0:57:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Free-form...\N- Negligence...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:23.60,0:57:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- They were a bit stupid... \N- And want to make people laugh...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:26.64,0:57:28.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The spirit of Dada...\N- Was about...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.52,0:57:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A whole new set of... \N- Extraordinary...\N- Ideologies...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:31.20,0:57:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- They were angry about... \N- Convention and...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:33.80,0:57:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- People being sick... \N- It's like a big political...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:36.36,0:57:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Shake it up. \N- I would say it's pretty absurd...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.72,0:57:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It just is...\N- More like life...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:41.04,0:57:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Nonsensical anyway... \N- More provocative...
Dialogue: 0,0:57:43.60,0:57:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Than beer and sausages... \N- I'm sure it's something like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:15.24,0:58:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:17.08,0:58:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE