DADA IN ZÜRICH.

The present article describes the context for the appearance of the Dada movement in Zürich in 1916, presenting the characteristics of the avant-garde Dadaist movement, such as proclaimed antitraditionalism, iconoclasm, collective participation in the creation process, an interest for primitive art, designing the path for the future performative art. Also, we argue that the so-called originality of the movement, proclaimed by its founders, is not completely justified, as long as its members had been influenced by the pre-avant-garde groups from Créteil, Puteaux, Rue du Delta or by Futurism. Nevertheless, the Dada movement became a turning point for the future actionism, through its interest in a synthesis of the arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]