Dragan Aleksić
Several side projects at the time include the lost film Kačaci u Topčideru, an American burlesque he recorded with Boško Tokin in 1924 and poetry he published in Monny de Boully's almanach Crno na belo.[6] Soon after, he came into contact with leading European Dadaists such as Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Walter Mehring, Richard Huelsenbeck, Max Ernst and Tristan Tzara.Together, they held a Dadaist event in Prague to public outcry, visited Lajos Kassák in Vienna, before settling in Zagreb where they collaborated on an early Yugoslav film magazine, Kinofon.Members of the troop included: Dragan Sremac, Vido Lastov, Slavko Stanić (Šlezinger), Mihailo S. Petrov, Antun Tuna Milinković (Fer Mill).In an article for the daily Hrvatska obrana on 21 August, the matinée was described as an inter-disciplinary interaction of painters and poets with elements of cabaret, music hall and circus performances, as well as propaganda film.According to Mihailo S. Petrov, the matinée was organized by Aleksić and himself, as well as Antun Milinković, Slavko Stanić (who booked the event hall), students of the Osijek Gymnasium Dragan Sremac and Zdenko Reich, the Russian emigrant Vido Lastov and three poets under the pseudonyms Jim Rad, Nac Singer and Mee Tarr.During this time, Aleksić also collaborated with Misao, Hipnos and Tribuna in 1923, published poetry in Monny de Boully's almanach Crno na belo in 1924, in Večnost in 1926 and in Oktobar and Letopis matice srpske in 1928.Alongside Velibor Gligorić, Aleksić published his rebuke to Popović's article, lauding African sculpture as a spontaneous, mystical and reflex-driven form of art.During this period, Aleksić wrote primarily on Constructivism, which he saw as a synthesis and next step in the evolution of all previous major modern art movements such as Impressionism, Expressionism and Cubism.After being included in two anthologies of poetry by editor Vasko Popa, Urnebesnik in 1960 and Ponoćno sunce (The Midnight Sun) in 1962, Aleksić's work was largely forgotten for several years.