The art establishment of the 1920's hated Dada with a passion that you can even see today in modern art school curriculum.
They despised it because Dada questioned capitalism, and the need to sell overpriced art. Worse yet, it wanted artists to be political actors, to have loud critical opinions, and other such undesirable behavior. The establishment thought they had the last laugh, too.
By teaching it the way they do in art school, they brush right over the important parts of the movement, painting it as something noble but dead. Something tidy, and locked away by history. Something that was absurd for the sake of being absurd, but this is wrong.
Absurdity as a method
Absurdity is a method of social commentary. An easy way to get you to think. Dada is a tool, a set of guiding philosophical principles by which, you as an artist can change the world.
Nothing is required of you. Nothing is everything. Dada is nothing.
That's why they don't want you to have it. Why they dismiss it as old and antiquated, and no longer relevant. Why they throw their arms up when they hear the words AI and Dada used together.
They do this for the same reason they teach expressionist ethos to contemporary artists. The cult of the rational, the inwardly looking. The whole idea that your imagination is limited to your own experiences. Write what you know, draw what you've seen! And other such similar bullshit.
See, they want you looking inward for your art, because the minute you start looking to the outside, you start asking questions that make these motherfuckers very uncomfortable.
Dada is, unto itself, a tool that's designed to destroy the art establishment, and indeed the very foundational
perceptions of art itself. It makes no apologies for this, and it even threatens you with inclusion if you don't agree.
And that is why we, the malcontents of the art world, and the inheritors of Dada have a responsibility to burn it all down! In the final prognosis, when examining the corpse of the art establishment... the cause of death will be listed as arson.
But I'm going to wait until I've had at least some coffee this morning, before doing my part.