NYC Dada Do Part I

Three Rooms Press and NYPL Jefferson Market present NYC ¡DADA! DO PART I

A Highly Eclectic DADA Performance Event plus Part I of the NYC launch of MAINTENANT 18: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art

An evening of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press and Jefferson Market Library present 2024 NYC ¡DADA! DO: PART I: a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading NYC-area maverick artists.

The event includes Part I of the NYC launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 18: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2024, Three Rooms Press), which features more than 250 visual and literary works by artists and writers from six continents.

Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren't.

The line-up features renowned contemporary DADA artists including Mary Campbell, Billy Cancel, Andrei Codrescu, Robert C. Ford, Dorothy Friedman, Thomas Fucaloro, Robert Hieger, Bob Holman, Matthew Hupert, Jerry Johnson, Linda Kleinbub, Norm Mattox, Prince McNally, Charles Mingus III, Lois Kagan Mingus, Larry Myers, Ruth Oisteanu, Valery Oisteanu, Puma Perl, Nicca Ray, Angela Sloan, Zev Torres, John J. Trause, Lynnea Villanova, Michael Whalen, and Joanie HF Zosike. Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.

MAINTENANT 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the latest of the ongoing annual MAINTENANT DADA journal series, established in 2008. This year's issue features work on the them of PLUTOCRAZY. Creativity is the currency and the amount has no limit. The Dada artists and writers separate Merch and State by forging a non-monetary vision which reveals strategies to achieve socio-political and economic equality that expose the military-industrialist complex by linking warfare with capitalism. There are 2,640 billionaires in the world and we've got each of them right where we want them.

The MAINTENANT series is archived in leading international institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art–New York, the BelVUE Museum–Brussels, and more. Contributors have included such artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Fred Tomaselli, Nicole Eisenman, Edel Rodriguez, and Kazunori Murakami, along with writers William S. Burroughs, Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Jack Hirschman, and Jerome Rothenberg, with a strong contingent of punk musician-artist-writers including Grant Hart, Mike Watt, Exene Cervenka, Thurston Moore, and Alice Bag.