DADADAY!

performance art

Rubin, Sally

Blum, Eberhard, 1940-2013

Knaack, Donald

Williams, Jan, 1939-

Programs

Richter, Hans, 1888-1976.

Clair, René, 1898-1981.

Ball, Hugo, 1886-1927

Hausmann, Raoul, 1886-1971

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

Schwitters, Kurt, 1887-1948

Two-sided poster. Front has black text and drawings on a beige background, along with a red and black photograph in the top third. Text includes: "...the human figure is progresively [sic] disappearing from pictorial art and no object is present except in fragmentary form. This is one more proof that the human countenance has become ugly and outworn, and that things which surround us have become objects of revulsion. The next step is for poetry to discard language as painting has discarded the object, and for similar reasons. Nothing like this has ever existed before. - Hugo Ball; Diary entry, March 1917"; February 5, 1976 8:00 PM Celebrate with us, the 60th anniversary of the Cabaret Voltaire, which opened in Zurich, Switzerland; February 5, 1916; and gave birth to a new and discomforting artform known from then on as DaDa.

8:00pm Two Films:
Ghosts Before Breakfast (9min.) Hans Richter
Entr'Acte (20 min.) Rene Clair

9:00pm Live Performance
Performers; Sally Rubin, Eberhard Blum, Donald Knaack and Jan Williams, will perform works by Hugo Ball, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Duchamp, and Kurt Schwitters.

10:00pm Destruction of Artworks!

Back has black text and black and white images on a beige background. Text repeats what is on the front, with more details about the performances.

Hallwalls (Museum)

State University of New York at Buffalo

1976-02-05

Contact the Poetry Collection: http://library.buffalo.edu/pl/

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Hallwalls Collection

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Hallwalls Poster Collection

Hallwalls, 30 Essex Street, Buffalo, NY

1970-1979

Posters

Broadsides

21x53cm