Within a little over a hundred days, in 1916 in Zurich, a troupe of artists takes over the Cabaret Voltaire and burns every code of the old world. José-Louis Bocquet & Kent offer the entirely unpublished account of the genesis of the Dada movement and of contemporary artistic revolutions.
1916, in the heart of a Europe in flames, a group of young artists proclaim defiance and the revolt of the senses. Every evening Dada burns all the codes of the old world in an artistic fireworks display – song, poetry, music, painting –. Since that spring of 1916, Dada has fed every form of rebellion of the 20th century, from the Surrealists to the Situationists, right up to the punks. Dada is now a historical fact. The adventure of the Cabaret Voltaire is its genesis.
The meeting will be an opportunity to understand how a comic strip is created: research into historical sources, the two artists' inspirations, the work of translating words and concepts into images, etc.