"DADA symbolizes the most extreme break with traditions and conventions. DADA was an aesthetic and political revolt. DADA paved the way for most developments in modern art. Even today DADA provokes us. If you only understand DADA as „nonsense“ you miss something. DADA aims at the core of human condition – our strange ability to create meaning out of NOTHING. Today DADA is mostly noted for it´s influence on visual art: collage, montage, assemblage, film, performance, multimedia, concept art.
Sound poetry has been one of the most important and unique but also most forgotten DADA innovations.
When I was a teenager, the discovery of DADA opened my eyes and ears. DADA became the starting point of my own artistic journey. From there on I slowly developed my own approach to language and sound, integrating many other influences from spoken word to minimal art. But now it´s time for a homage to the heroes of my youth.
I still love the profound silliness and the serious playfulness of DADA. Therefore, I take liberties when I work with the historical material. I will improvise, distort, deconstruct, remix, loop and use electronic effects. Works of precursors and successors and works of my own can be added to link DADA with the present and future." - Dirk HuelsTrunk
Sound poet, spoken word poet and writer Dirk HuelsTrunk gives a live performance and a short introduction to DADA sound poetry during Neodada Festival organized to celebrate the 100 years old dadaism on Saturday 23rd of April. The core of his set is an intense and rhythmic 30 min. „tour de force“ performance of the „Ursonate“ (Kurt Schwitters), the masterpiece of European sound poetry.