Green Dada: Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Ecocritical Theory.

This article examines the intersections between Dadaist aesthetics and contemporary ecocritical theories, particularly focusing on the challenges of representing climate change's slow violence and the material interrelations of human and more-than-human bodies. It argues that Dadaism's critical practices—such as photomontage and its subversion of traditional visual representation—prefigure ecocritical concerns about the invisibility and complexity of environmental violence and trans-corporeality, where bodies and environments intra-act materially. Despite Dada's historical focus on war and capitalist critique, its radical dismantling of hegemonic cultural representations and its embodied, performative art forms offer valuable perspectives for ecological thought and activism today. The article also highlights parallels between Dadaist shock tactics and modern environmental activism that challenges societal complacency toward ecological crises.