Dada • 1919 • II
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Dada • 1919 • II
Richard Huelsenbeck turns down Kurt Schwitters' request to join the Berlin Club Dada; Schwitters creates Merz. Resisting a clear definition or manifesto, he describes Merz through his practice. In 1920 he explains that "Merz aims for freedom of anything that stands in the way of forming artistically."
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.