Over the course of the 1920s, Dada became one of the driving forces of avant-garde art production in New York. This cosmopolitan, transatlantic art movement stimulated innovative creative styles, spurred a new magazine culture, altered institutional exhibition strategies, and gave rise to a new breed of collectors. It radically changed art in America and has left an enduring legacy. This international symposium sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art examines the creative and intellectual distinctiveness of New York Dada and probes the new idioms and ideas to which it gave rise.
DAY 1: 27 OCTOBER (stated times are BST)
10.00–10.15 Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University): Inventing New York Dada
Session 1: 10.15–11.30
Elza Adamowicz (Queen Mary, University of London): After Dada’s Bodies
David Hopkins (Glasgow University): Unique Eunuchs: New York Dada’s Gender Politics Re-Considered
11.30–11.45 Break
Session 2: 11.45–13.00
Lola Lorant (Université Rennes 2): Bringing Dada Up-to-Date: The Nouveaux Réalistes in New York under the Scrutiny of their Elders
Michele Greet (George Mason University): Appropriating Picabia: Latin American Artists and the Dada Spirit
13.00–14.00 Lunch
Session 3: 14.00–15.15
Irene Gammel (Ryerson University): Performing Dada with Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Lewis Kachur (Kean University): Dada Objects in the Surrealist Domain? Duchamp and Man Ray at D’Arcy Galleries (1960)
15.15–15.30 Break
Session 4: 15.30–16.45
Jed Rasula (University of Georgia): Vitamin Dada: Virgin Microbe Meets Word Clash
David Joselit (Harvard University): Dada’s Persons
DAY 2: 28 OCTOBER
Session 5: 10.00–11.15
Kathryn Brown (Loughborough University): Refashioning History: Black Dada and the Harlem Renaissance.
Erica O’Neill (Glasgow University): Duchamp’s Quantum Door
11.15–11.30 Break
Session 6: 11.30–12.45
Talia Kwartler (University College, London): Between Paris and New York: Suzanne Duchamp’s Readymade Paintings
Wendy Grossman (Phillips Collection): Man Ray and Shifting Narratives of American Art History: From Dada to Neo-Dada
12.45–14:00 Lunch
Session 7: 14.00–15.15
Catherine Craft (Nasher Sculpture Center): Putting the (New York) Dada in Neo-Dada
Sarah Archino (Furman University): New York Dada: Starting at the End
Closing Discussion
To register please email the conference organizer: Dr Kathryn Brown (k.j.brownlboro.ac.uk)
Reference:
CONF: Rethinking the Histories and Legacies of New York Dada (online, 27-28 Oct 21). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 20, 2021 (accessed Dec 9, 2024), <https://arthist.net/archive/34849>.