Dada Universal

Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Zürich
05.02.2016 – 28.03.2016

URL: www.nationalmuseum.ch/d/microsites/2016/Zuerich/Dada.php

‘DADA WAS THERE BEFORE THERE WAS DADA.’
The National Museum Zurich is holding an exhibition in 2016 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the birth of Dadaism. The exhibition not only features works of Dada art and literature but also examines the global and universal impact of the Dada movement right up to the present day. A highlight of the exhibition is the legendary ‘Fountain’ by Marcel Duchamp, the ‘Mona Lisa’ of Dadaism. And in a whirl through time and space, the Dada esprit comes alive through objects, projections and sound poems, involving all the human senses. Because: ‘DADA EST TATOU. TOUT EST DADA.’

^{Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Portrait Hans Arp, 1918, Holz gedrechselt, bemalt.
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Dadaglobe Reconstructed

Kunsthaus Zurich

5 February – 1 May 2016

Dadaglobe’ brings together the more than two hundred artworks and texts that were sent to Tristan Tzara in 1921 by artists from all over Europe. This epochal but hitherto unpublished book project is finally being realized to mark the 100th anniversary of Dada’s foundation. After years of research, contributions that have since been dispersed around the globe have been assembled once again for an exhibition that is a milestone in recent Dada research. The presentation comprises self-portraits, photomontages and collages, drawings, book page designs, poems and essays as well as manuscripts, printed matter and revealing historical documents. ‘Dadaglobe’ is an impressive survey of the artistic diversity, socio-political relevance and art-historical impact of Dada. With contributions by Hans Arp, André Breton, Max Ernst, Hannah Höch, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and some 30 other artists.
The exhibition will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from June 2016.

Also in 2016  (3 June – 25 September 2016 ): Francis Picabia. A Retrospective.
More information on : DADA Zurich 100 2016.

TaTa Dada

The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara       

By Marius Hentea

The MIT Press, 2014

URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/tata-dada

 

Overview

Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth century’s most famous avant-garde movements, was born Samuel Rosenstock (or Samueli Rosenstok) in a provincial Romanian town, on April 16 (or 17, or 14, or 28) in 1896. Tzara became Tzara twenty years later at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, when he and others (including Marcel Janco, Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Hans Arp) invented Dada with a series of chaotic performances including multilingual (and nonlingual) shouting, music, drumming, and calisthenics. Within a few years, Dada (largely driven by Tzara) became an international artistic movement, a rallying point for young artists in Paris, New York, Barcelona, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. With TaTa Dada, Marius Hentea offers the first English-language biography of this influential artist.

 

As the leader of Dada, Tzara created “the moment art changed forever.” But, Hentea shows, Tzara and Dada were not coterminous. Tzara went on to publish more than fifty books; he wrote one of the great poems of surrealism; he became a recognized expert on primitive art; he was an active antifascist, a communist, and (after the Soviet repression of the Hungarian Revolution) a former communist. Hentea offers a detailed exploration of Tzara’s early life in Romania, neglected by other scholars; a scrupulous assessment of the Dada years; and an original examination of Tzara’s life and works after Dada. The one thing that remained constant through all of Tzara’s artistic and political metamorphoses, Hentea tells us, was a desire to unlock the secrets and mysteries of language. [text publisher]

Hugo Ball Almanach 2014

Studien und Texte zu Dada
Neue Folge 5, 2014

ed. by Eckhard Faul for the
City of Pirmasens and the Hugo-Ball-Gesellschaft.
Published by edition text + kritik, Munich

www.etk-muenchen.de/





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Hans Richter Encounters – “From Dada till today”

Hans Richter
Berliner Festspiele
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
27 March to 30 June 2014
URL: www.berlinerfestspiele.de/.../ausstellung_hans_richter/


The oeuvre of Hans Richter (1888-1976) spanned nearly seven decades. Born in Berlin, he was one of the most significant champions of modernism. Berlin, Paris, Munich, Zurich, Moscow and New York were the major stations of his life. He was a painter and draughtsman, a Dadaist and a Constructivist, a film maker and a theoretician, as well as a great teacher. His great scroll collages remain icons of art history to this day. His work is characterised by a virtually unparalleled interpenetration of different artistic disciplines. The link between film and art was his major theme. Many of the most famous artists of the first half of the twentieth century were among his friends.

Dada-Archive donated to Museum Dr8888, the Netherlands

Dutch writer and art-critic K. Schippers donated his Dada archive to the Museum  Dr8888 in Drachten, the Netherlands. The museum is specialized in Dutch Dada. The archive consists of letters, clippings and photographs of Dutch Dada artists as Paul Citroen, Otto van Rees, Hendrik Werkman and the brothers Thijs and Evert Rinsema. The material was collected for his book Holland Dada, published in 1974. The museum plans to digitize the archive.


The donation will be part of the exhibition 'Holland Dada' and on view from April 12 to June 1, 2014 in Museum Dr8888.

Remediating the Avant-Garde

Magazines and Digital Archives

October 25–26, 2013 | Princeton University

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the conceptual and practical ground where traditional area studies, periodical studies, digital humanities, computer science, and library and information science converge.

We are interested in how these fields inform each other and challenge us to think and create in new ways, both as builders of digital resources and as scholars and teachers of avant-garde periodicals.

Click here for more information.