2020 Virtual DADA Festival: Session 3: European DADA Superstars: Part 1

Three Rooms Press is proud to sponsor ¡DADA! 2020 Festival: An international festival of livestreamed dada actions by contemporary dada artists from around the world. Hosts: 3RP co-directors Peter Carlaftes & Kat Georges

Session 3: European DADA Superstars Part I
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | 19h CEST / 1PM EDT
Volodymyr Bilyk (Ukraine) | Imanol Buisan (Spain) | Sam Dodson (UK) | Becky Fawcett (UK) | Federico Federici (Italy) | Jon Andoni Goikoetxea (Spain) | Fausto Grossi (Spain) | Lisa Marie Jarlborn (France/Sweden) | Boni Joi (Switzerland) | Béné Kusendila (Belgium) | Syporca Whandal (Hungary)

This series will highlight the art and writing of contributors to MAINTENANT 14: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, published annually by Three Rooms Press since 2008.

Events will include performance, art, poetry livestreamed, and inspried by the theme of this year’s journal “UN-SUSTAIN-A-BULL-SH*T!” Prepare for the provocative, eclectic, and unpredictable collage of perormances by more than 100 artists in a series of lively sessions tracking European, South American, Canadian and US performers. Admission to all events is free. All events will be livestreamed to both Facebook and Youtube. Copies of MAINTENANT 14 will be available to order during all events.

What is Dada?
The original Dada movement started in Zurich, New York and Paris in 1916 as a artistic reaction to World War I. Many Dadaists believed that the 'reason' and 'logic' of a bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war—and would continue to do so. They expressed their rejection of that ideology through artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality. In addition to being anti-war, Dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchist in nature. Tenants of the movement continue through today, and are paraticularly relevant in the current global political spectrum.

Three Rooms Press and Dada
The fierce New York-based independent publisher Three Rooms Press draws much of its inspiration from Dada and its legacy, including the beat movement, punk rock, pop art and the underground poetry and artscene. Three Rooms Press is particularly inspired by the life and work of Arthur Cravan.

About Arthur Cravan
Arthur Cravan was a pugilist, poet, larger-than-life character, and idol of the Dada and Surrealism movements (as well as the nephew of Oscar Wilde). In 1913, he published the original Maintenant, widely-recognized as the first “zine” ever.  The current Maintenant series by Three Rooms Press was developed in homage to his original creation.  During the course of a short and spectacular life, Cravan wreaked havoc on himself and three continents in an escalating frenzy of artistic mania. He arrived in New York in 1914 where he met the poet Mina Loy, then moved with her to Mexico three years later when the United States entered the war. In 1918, he set out on a sailboat from Mexico to Argentina and never arrived. His disappearance has been the source of broad speculation.

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