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Performance art

  • Performance artThe Cabaret Voltaire opened its doors on the 5th of February 1916 in Zürich, Switzerland. Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings founded this ten-meter-square space to…
  • Performance poetryOn the 23rd of June 1916, Hugo Ball stood at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. He wore a cardboard costume that forced him to be carried onto the stage.
  • Spoken wordBefore the invention of writing, a cycle of practicing, listening and memorizing shaped how each language drew on its resources of sound structure.