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DADADANDY

Dadadandy is born out of a collaboration between Simon Moretti and Paul Heber-Percy. Dadadandy is a growing artists' collective, an artwork, an artist, a place for discussion and a curatorial agency.

''"Hybridizing the irreverent Dadaist spirit with an experimental attitude of the fluxus mould, together with an eccentric and refined taste typically Dandy, you have Dadadandy". VOGUE ITALIA August 2006.''

The name dadadandy was taken from a collage by Hannah Hoch, Da-Dandy, 1919, which shows a cluster of female bodies in stylish attire. The bust of a man is described in profile by the overlapping heads and upper bodies of the women modelling the latest fashions taken from glamour magazines of the time.

The origin of the name Dada is unclear. Some believe that it is simply a nonsensical word, others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da, da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language. Others believe that a group of artists assembled in Zürich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a French-German dictionary with a paper knife, and picking the name that the point landed upon. In French dada means hobby-horse, and is a child’s pet word for horse, also the colloquialism, c'est mon dada, means its my hobby. All of which fits perfectly with the aims and activities of dadadandy as a project and it’s historical references.