Dada • 1918 • IV
Club members the Dadasopher (Raoul Hausmann) and the Superdada (Johannes Baader) write press releases that feature in the local news ('The Dadaists demand the Nobel Peace Prize!', 'Men are angels and live in heaven') and form an imaginary Dada Republic at Nicolassee. Baader also publishes his Acht Weltsätze (Eight World Theorems), each of which is tailored to 'solve' a category of the Nobel Prize (chemistry, physics, literature, medicine, and peace). He cheerily proposes that he receive all the awards. Later in the year, Baader disrupts a pastor at the Berlin Cathedral, shouting, "You are making a mockery of Christ."
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.