Dadaism opposed all aspects of nationalism, including language, on the basis that nationalism created the conditions that led to the immeasurable suffering of the first world war.

Dadaist poems presented random collections of words - an anarchic non-language - in nonsensical sentences dictated by chance. Dadaists experimented with different styles, strategies and mediums, using irony, humour and a variety of artistic madness to protest against the atrocity and brutality of the war.

Jean Arp wrote, ‘While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.'

is a direct plea to do away with national identification in favour of a more general and more forgiving humanism.

is a series of 4 digital posters created to mark the 105th anniversary of the publication of Tristan Tzara's Dada magazines in Zurich, Switzerland.