Dada, a 1916 art movement not so concerned with art.

The Dada movement was an art movement which began with a German refugee in Switzerland named Hugo Ball in 1916. This movement was a response to World War I. Dada was not as much about the art as it was about the message in which the participants conveyed their feelings about the war. For so long art was for the bourgeois and had no concern with the feelings of the time. The Dada movement was mostly comprised of writers and philosophers. Hugo Ball viewed Dada as,

"...a requiem for this society, and also the primitive beginning of a new one."

The Dadaist took action with public performance art, which became their form of protests. Although 1916 was 92 years ago the idea of speaking up and being heard is a timeless want. in our world today there are issues and problem that face us as a society. If as a generation we sit by in silence we give up our voice for a temporary comfortable life, that may not last forever. I may not have solutions or answers to the problems of my generation, but i do know that we need to realize we have them.