Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich was the birthplace of Dada, the absurdist art movement, 100 years ago, and it is still a venue where rebels such as Frank Perrin enjoy wreaking havoc. Earlier this month, as part of Manifesta 11, the French photographer invited participants to eat a cake resembling the head of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. “The public [was] given the power to devour the icon of every capitalistic fantasy or cliché in the same place that gave birth to the Dada movement, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary—a century-long cycle that begins with the terror of 1916 and ends with 2016’s dread,” Perrin says. The artist's intervention is particularly timely in light of the bruising Presidential debate that took place yesterday (26 September) at Hofstra University outside New York between Trump and the Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.
