Dada • 1923 • I
Tristan Tzara and Iliazd orchestrate La soirée du coeur à barbe (The bearded heart soirée) in Paris. The programme promises screenings of several short films by Hans Richter, Man Ray and others, musical performances by Igor Stravinsky and Erik Satie with Tzara's play Lec Coeur à gaz as the centrepiece. In a dramatic and final break between the Paris Dadaists and the future surrealists, Breton, Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard and others storm the stage mid-performance, and the soirée ends in turmoil.
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.