George Melly apocryphally defended himself from a mugging by reciting a work by this artist. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this German artist behind the sound poem “Ursonate” (“ur-zon-ah-te”). This artist turned houses in Hanover, Norway, and Cumbria into a series of installations that inspired the name of a Japanese noise artist.
ANSWER: Kurt (Hermann Eduard Karl Julius) Schwitters (Those houses, called Merzbau, inspired the name of Merzbow.)
[10e] Schwitters was associated with the Berlin school of this early 20th Century avant-garde art movement, which was reputedly named by picking a word for a hobby horse from a book at random.
ANSWER: Dadaism
[10m] The Dada artist Hugo Ball performed sound poetry like “Karawane” (“kah-rah-WAH-nay”) at this “Cabaret” in Zurich. It was named after a French author, and itself names the British industrial group behind Red Mecca.
ANSWER: Cabaret Voltaire