UbuWeb today turned me onto The Nothingists.
I had never heard of this Dadaist, NO! NO! , group from Russia .
This is not surprising when you learn that their nihilist manifesto was summed up by the slogans:
Write nothing!
Read nothing!
Say nothing!
Print nothing!
Their “Creative Bureau of Nothingists” sounds like it would have made a great Monty Python sketch and would be a good name for many political departments.
The Nothingists [Nichevoki] were short lived.
They formed in Moscow in 1919 and ceased all (in)activity in 1923.
Nothing more is known.
