london 2005

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• Dada in Debate
  Friday 25 November-Saturday 26 November 2005
  Tate Modern, London
  organised by the University of York
  url: www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/.

• This conference, convened by David Hopkins and Michael White, has been prompted by a major Dada exhibition that opened in Paris in October 2005 and travels to Washington DC and New York in 2006. This landmark show provides the opportunity for a broader re-reading of the subject. Much of the literature on Dada has focussed narrowly on individuals or on the local groups formed in major cities such as Zurich, New York, Berlin and Paris. The aim of this conference is to try and think about Dada beyond the heavily mythologised narratives that surround the local groups and connect Dada to the recent concerns of humanities scholarship such as issues of identity, theories of the avant-garde and mass culture. Relatively neglected areas of research such as metaphysics and ideologies of race are also considered.

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• PROGRAMME

• FRIDAY 25 November
• 14.00–14.30 Opening Remarks
  Dada: the state of the debate

• First Session: Dadasophy
  • 14.30–15.15 Dr Debbie Lewer (University of Glasgow)
    Dada and Theology
  • 15.15–16.00 Professor David Hopkins (University of Glasgow)
    "Dust Breeding" : Duchampian Metaphysics

• Second Session: Dada Language
  • 16.30–17.15 Professor Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway)
    Swallows, parrots and the ‘cacadou supérieur’: Arp's translations
  • 17.15–18.00 Professor Rainer Rumold (Northwestern University)
    Kurt Schwitters: Decomposition of Word and Image as Architecture/Texture
  • 18.00–18.30 Panel discussion with all speakers from sessions 1 and 2, chaired by David Hopkins

• SATURDAY 26 November
• Third Session: Groupings/Alignments
  • 10.30–11.15 Dr Timothy Benson (Curator, Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
    Dada Geographies
  • 11.15–12.00 Professor Hubert van den Berg (University of Groningen)
    The Margins of Dada: On the Reception of Dada in the Netherlands and Belgium
• Fourth Session: Montage/Mass Culture
  • 13.00–13.45 Dr Brigid Doherty (Princeton University)
    Revelation Revisited: Raphael’s "Sistine Madonna" in Grosz’s "Germania ohne Hemd"
  • 13.45–14.30 Professor Sherwin Simmons (University of Oregon)
    Dada and Kitsch: Cultivation of the Trivial
• 14.30–15.15 Panel discussion with all speakers from sessions 3 and 4, chaired by Michael White
• Fifth Session: Identity
  • 15.45–16.30 Dr Elizabeth Legge (University of Toronto)
    Portraits of Tzara
  • 16.30–17.15 Dr Michael White (University of York)
    Berlin Dada and Jewish Identity
• 17.15–18.00 Panel discussion: the Paris Show and Rethinking Dada
  Professor Dawn Ades (University of Essex)
  Professor Hubert van den Berg (University of Groningen)
  Dr Matthew Gale (Tate)
  Dr Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute)
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