BBC Four has announced a season of programmes exploring the world of conceptual art, BBC Four Goes Conceptual, including a documentary fronted by Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Dada, Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) takes us on an irreverent trip into the world of the avant-garde art group that became one of the most influential movements of the 20th century.  

Moir/Reeves says: “I first came across Dada at art school in the early 80s. It was funnier and more anarchic than anything else I discovered. And it didn’t always have to make sense! Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the twentieth century, it was the DADA-ists who proved the most important – giving birth, not only to a lot of modern art, but also shaping comedy, music and political protest…”

In his film, Moir restages an early Dada performance in Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire where the movement first began, recreating lost artworks and devising some new ones in an entertaining and eccentric approach to re-telling the Dada story.

BBC Four Goes Conceptual will be broadcast this autumn.