swansea 2006

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• Eggs laid by Tigers - DaDa and beyond
  Conference at Swansea University, 5-8 July 2006
  The Jointly organized by
  1. Departments of French and English, Swansea University
  2. French Department, Queen Mary, University of London
  3. French Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
  url: www.swan.ac.uk/french/Research/Conferences/
• 2006 marks the ninetieth anniversary of Dada in Zurich, and the seventieth of the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Eggs laid by tigers. Dada and beyond is an international conference called with the aim of assessing the legacy of, and prospects for, Dada, its successors, and the relations between them. The conference coincides with the 2005-2006 Dada Exhibition showing in Paris, Washington and New York, which reflects a growing interest in the subject. It will focus on verbal and visual manifestations of Dada. Far from its being a fossil, the organisers see the legacy of Dada as pacifist, internationalist, sceptical, imaginative, resistant to power and artistic relocation, as possessing new relevance in a twenty-first century of globalisation, eco-crisis, terror and hyperpower hegemony.

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• PROCEEDINGS

• Eggs laid by Tigers. Dada and beyond / edited by E. Adamowicz, E. Robertson and A. Rothwell. Avantgarde Critical Studies, 24 (Rodopi : Amsterdam 2008 [forthcoming]). Proceedings of the Conference at Swansea University, 5-8 July 2006.

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• PROGRAMME

• WEDNESDAY 5 July
• 16.30-16.45 Welcome, Introduction / Accueil, Introduction
• Language of Politics, Politics of Language
  • 16.45-17.45 Henri Béhar (Université Paris 3) 'La colombe poignardée : Dada et la politique' (Keynote speaker)
  • 17.45-18.45 Anna Katharina Schaffner (University of Edinburgh) 'Dissecting the order of signs: on the textual politics of Dada poetics'
    Marc Décimo (Paris) 'Comment, autour de DADA, construction de la « modernité » et Description – Révolution – Révélation – Subversion de la langue s’articulent'

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• THURSDAY 6 July
• Dada practices
  • 9.00-10.00 Mary Ann Caws (City University New York) 'The Object of Dada' (Keynote speaker)
  • 10.00-11.00 Janine Mileaf (Swarthmore College) 'The Tactility of the Object'
    Nina Parish (University of Bath) 'Pour faire un livre dadaïste: Dada Experimentation with Book Form'
• Dada Geographies
  • 11.30-13.00 Raluca Lupu (Université de Montréal) 'Surréalisme belge et Dada : Paul Nougé et les stratégies de dénégation'
    Matthew Witkovsky (National Gallery of Art Washington) 'Defining Dada’s diaspora'
    Nicola Suica (University of Arts Belgrade) 'Belgrade’s artistic dissent from the '60s.'
• Portraits – Identities
  • 14.15-15.45 Raihan Kadri (University of Essex) 'Dadaist Poker: the body and the reformation of form'
    Elizabeth Legge (University of Toronto) 'Faire de son histoire une boucle (noire): Portraits of Tzara'
    Aurélie Verdier (Fonds national d’art contemporain), 'La tentation du vide. Le portrait dada à Paris'
• Dada, Surrealism
  • 16.15-17.45 Marc Berdet (Université Paris I) 'Kitsch ou double? Mickey, rêve filmé du collectif hilare'
    Timo Kaitaro (Académie de Finlande) 'Irresponsabilité dadaïste et surréaliste'
    Ruth Hemus (University of Edinburgh) 'The Manifesto of Céline Arnauld'
• Dada Languages
  • 18.15-19.15 David Christoffel (Paris) 'L’Envers mélodiste d’Unique eunuque'
    Andreas Kramer (Goldsmiths, University of London) 'Speaking Dada: the politics of language'

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• FRIDAY 7 July
• 9.00-10.00 Bernard Noël (Mauregny and Paris) 'Picabia: N’Importe quoi, n’importe comment' (Keynote speaker)
• Dada Cinema
  • 10.00-11.00 Kim Knowles (University of Edinburgh) 'Between Order and Chaos: Man Ray’s Emak Bakia (1926)'
    Jennifer Wild (University of Iowa) 'La jeune fille américaine: Female Figuration, The Cinema, and Dada'
• Performance
  • 11.30-13.00 Jill Fell (Birkbeck College, University of London) 'Zurich Dada dance performance and the role of Sophie Taeuber'
    Catherine Dufour (Université Paris III) 'L’Acte dada'
    Kerstin Sommer 'Dada is dead – long live Dada: the influence of Dadaism on contemporary performance art'
• 16.30-17.30 Rudolf Kuenzli (University of Iowa) 'Berlin Dada: Interventions into Mass Media' (Keynote speaker)
• 17.30-19.00 parallel sessions:
  • A : (DTC1) Dada cultures
    Dafydd Jones (University of Wales Cardiff) 'The Location of Dada culture'
    Nadia Ghanem (Université Paris 8) 'Le Cabaret Voltaire en perspective'
    Patrick Suter (Université de Genève) 'Dada et la fonction écologique de l’art'
  • B : (DTC2) Beyond Dada
    Vincent Antoine 'Johannes Baader Oberdada. Dada et la folie'
    Paul Cooke (University of Exeter) 'The Critical reception of René Crevel: the 1920s and beyond'
    Olivier Penot-Lacassagne (CNRS- Université Paris III) '«Avis aux bâtisseurs de ruines». Situationnistes et punks, ou la postérité de Dada'

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• SATURDAY 8 July
• 9.00-10.00 Roger Cardinal (University of Kent) '"Sch... Sprechen Sie Merz?" On reading Kurt Schwitters' (Keynote speaker)
• Dada and Cinema
  • 10.00-11.00 Ramona Fotiade (University of Glasgow) 'Spectres of Dada: from Man Ray to Marker and Godard'
    Alfred Thomas (University of Illinois at Chicago) 'Dada and its Afterlife in Czechoslovakia: Vera Chytilová’s Daisies (1966)'
• Beyond Dada
  • 11.30-13.00 Nathalie Roelens (Universités d’Anvers et de Nimègue) 'Dans le sillage de dada : Dubuffet, Alechinsky, Michaux et autres «périphériques»'
    Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (University of Glasgow) 'Tararira de Benjamin Fondane et l’héritage subversif du dadaïsme'
    Stephen Forcer (University of Birmingham) 'The importance of talking nonsense: Tzara, ideology, and Dada in the 21st century'
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