Dada • 1922 • II
In Paris, Breton begins planning his Congress to Determine the Aims and Defenses of the Modern Spirit; a somewhat contemptuous attempt to merge the divergent avant-garde practices of the time into one unified movement, led by Breton himself. Tzara is invited to join the committee, but declines. Breton responds with a derogatory letter about Tzara that is printed in Comœdia.
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.