Beyond satire

Robert Thicknesse

THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE to be seen as devotees of the Muses are having a fine old time squealing about the Proletcult-style despoliation of the arts in Britain, with public funding being withdrawn by a Visigothic Arts Council from their frivolous pleasures and devoted instead to increasing the wattage of the exciting Blackpool lights and encouraging multiracial bones-playing up north. But all this talk of cultural desertification wilfully ignores the galactic piece of Dadaist performance art that has been evolving before our eyes since the moment in 2016 when the aesthete-activist wing of the Conservative Party seized power and ignited the era of experimentalist absurdism we have been privileged to live through. Clearly intended as a centenary hommage to the founding of Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in 1916, and the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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