Cabaret Voltaire
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His work artistic is situated at the boundary of conceptual and performance art. In his inhabited sculptures, he extends ideas such as shared authorship and the ready-made into performative installations, which he sets up at myriad locations in different countries. Divo produces his works and exhibitions from found objects such as waste, antiques, bric-a-brac and books, using them as the raw material and starting point for his installations. He also employs icons from art history as ideational material in h
In 2002, Divo organized the occupation of Cabaret Voltaire , the cradle of the Dada movement, to protest against its planned closure; this endowed him with even greater recognition as the driving force of community-oriented cultural happenings. It also acted as the inauguration for Mark Divo’s International Dada Festivals, which have been held in various cities throughout the years.
Cabaret Voltaire