Dada • 1917 • VII
The editorial team of The Blind Man holds 'The Blind Man's Ball'. Advertised as a "new-fashioned hop, skip and jump" at the "prehistoric, ultra-bohemian Webster Hall," the riotous costumed ball lasts well into the night, with Beatrice Wood dancing "continuous syncopations" and Duchamp climbing a flagpole.
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.