The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 18:51

This is the story of two people playing chess in a smoky café in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. The two people are Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada, a radical art movement and V.I. Lenin, the architect of the Russian Revolution. And it’s the most important chess game ever played, because the world is never going to be the same when these guys get up from the table. Tzara goes on to change the look and meaning of the new century through poetry, art, paradox, absurdity, laughter, abolishing borders; while Lenin employs logic, ruthlessness, gravity, military discipline, the subjection of art to the “people” and mass murder in the name of building a utopian future. Now in the 21st century Leninism is dead, while Dada, art and poetry are still opening doors;” in fact, the primary currency of the future will be poetry.”