Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist

> To friends and neighbours, his family seemed respectably bourgeois. The reality was quite different, though. ‘Almost as soon as I could speak’, he later recalled, ‘I knew that everything people told me was a lie.’

This seems especially relevant now. I’ve heard it said that all the flipped expectations, all the “Dada stuff” has been done before.

But maybe we need more Dada now. Why is it relevant? what is there still to say?