Dada • 1920 • VI
In Paris, the Dadaists organise and host the Dada Festival at the Salle Gaveau in May. Advertised by men wearing sandwich boards, the programme includes Tzara's Vaseline Symphonique, a poem for twenty people, a 'sodomist composition' by Francis Picabia titled The American Wet Nurse (La Nourrice Americaine), and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes as 'the bellybutton interloper'.
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.