Dada • 1921 • II
In Paris, André Breton convenes the mock trial of Maurice Barrès – an author of the time who had become a mouthpiece for ultra-nationalist views. The trial divides opinions amongst the Paris Dada group. Picabia leaves early and Tristan Tzara comments that he has no confidence in justice, even if it is done by Dada. "You will agree with me, your Honour," he directed at Breton, "that we are all just a bunch of bastards and that, as a result, little differences between big bastards and smaller bastards are of no importance."
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.