WRITING POEMS WITH HUGO BALL 22 October, 2007 Exhibition »Hugo Ball: Fuga saeculi«, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
The séance with Hugo Ball, one of the fathers of Swiss Dadaism, took place in Zurich in the cellar of the well-known Cabaret
Voltaire, where everyone dressed in the cardboard conical caps similar to those worn by Ball during the readings of his poems.
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AUDIENCE Spirit of Hugo Ball, come to us. Spirit, you are there?
AUDIENCE Are you Hugo Ball?
HUGO BALL Yes.
AUDIENCE Go to the first letter of your name.
AUDIENCE Really! We have waited for you.
AUDIENCE Have you married in Bern?
HUGO BALL No.
AUDIENCE Would you tell us if you met Lenin?
HUGO BALL No.
AUDIENCE Have you actually died of cancer?
HUGO BALL Sure.
AUDIENCE Is there a weapon against the pope?
HUGO BALL Yes.
AUDIENCE Are you the pope?
HUGO BALL No.
AUDIENCE Is the nihilism a weapon against the pope?
HUGO BALL Yes.
AUDIENCE We would like to know where the picture of Marcel Janko
»Cabaret Voltaire« is.
HUGO BALL Yes.
AUDIENCE Where?
HUGO BALL I do not know.
AUDIENCE Is Tristan Tzara is more important than you. Is this right?
HUGO BALL Naturally.
AUDIENCE Have you created the term DADA?
HUGO BALL Yes.
AUDIENCE Do you meet God?
HUGO BALL I should think so...
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