DADA TECHNIQUES IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE (1916–1930)
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The conference of the Kassák Museum and the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences marks the centenary of the beginning of Dada in Zurich. The conference concentrates on Dada phenomena in East-Central Europe, especially the Dada techniques that appeared in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. The avant-garde artists of the East-Central European region felt the impact of Dada at the end of the First World War, when established economic, political and identity strategies were going through crisis and rearrangement. In these years, many borders became blurred: between centre and periphery, between politics and anti-politics, and among genders, artists’ roles and forms of artistic expression.
A distinctive attitude of Dada was the crossing of borders, and this had a uniquely emancipating role: by suspending traditional social norms, it opened the way to artistic self-realization without borders. Dada dispensed with the questions of origin, religious background, women’s role stereotypes or even formal artistic training. It removed the moral barriers to asking previously inconceivable and provocative questions concerning artistic creation and reception, institutions, society and public taste in general. Dada was a symptom of the decomposition of the old world. Its radical language had an impact even on artists who never called themselves ‘Dadaists’.
What did avant-garde artists use Dada for in East-Central Europe during the 1910s and 1920s? Certainly to commit systematic border incursions. The borders were those between languages, majority and minority identities, politics and anti-politics. The sections of the conference discuss these artistic border incursions.
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DAY 1 | THURSDAY | 13 OCTOBER 2016
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16.00-17.00 |
Registration
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17.00-17.10 |
Introductory Remarks
Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi (Kassák Museum, Budapest)
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17.10-18.00 |
Keynotes
Krisztina Passuth (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Networks of Avant-Garde Movements Yesterday and Today (In French with English Summary)
András Kappanyos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Hungarian Dada – The Missing Link (via Skype)
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18.00-19.00 |
Panel 1. Aspects of Dada 6 Minute Position Papers by the Avant-Garde Research Group of the Kassák Museum
Gábor Dobó (Kassák Museum – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Writing Dada – Correspondence between Tristan Tzara and Lajos Kassák
Magdolna Gucsa (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Learning by Wandering – Crossing Borders as a Way of Life of Emil Szittya in the 1910s
Boglárka Kőrösi (Moholy-Nagy University, Budapest) Merz – Container of Trash, Dada and Design
Krisztina Zsófia Csaba (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The Appearance of Dada in the Book of New Artists Edited by Lajos Kassák and László Moholy-Nagy, 1922
Judit Galácz (Gizi Bajor Actors' Museum – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) Green Donkey Theatre – An Experiment for Making a New Theatrical Language in Hungary with the Adaptation of Dada
Merse Pál Szeredi (Kassák Museum – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The New Adam (According to Sándor Bortnyik)
Sára Bagdi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The First Chapter of Dada in Hungary: Iván Hevesy’s Writings on Dada (via Skype)
Irina Denischenko (Columbia University, New York) Much ado about Nothing – Da,da and the Russian Naysayers (via Skype)
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DAY 2 | FRIDAY | 14 OCTOBER 2016
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9.00-10.00 |
Registration
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10.00-10.10 |
Introductory Remarks
Edit Sasvári (Kassák Museum, Budapest)
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10.10-11.00 |
Keynote
Günter Berghaus (University of Bristol) The Genesis of Dada: Futurist Influences in Romania, Germany and at the Cabaret Voltaire
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11.00-11.30 |
Coffee
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11.30-13.30 |
Panel 2. Dada in National and Transnational Discourses
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11.30-12.00 |
Jindřich Toman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Dada in Prague – and Beyond
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12.00-12.30 |
Jakub Kornhauser (Jagiellonian Univeristy, Krakow) Dada Poems – Towards a New Materiality
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12.30-13.00 |
Carolin Binder (University of Regensburg) Czech Avant-Garde – Devětsil and the Influence of Dada
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13.00-13.30 |
Piotr Juszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Philosophy of Buffoonery – Dadaist Impulses in Polish Art of the First Half of the 20th Century
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13.30-15.00 |
Lunch
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15.00-17.00 |
Panel 3. The Identity of the Dada Artist
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15.00-15.30 |
Olga Zaslavskaya (Central European University, Budapest) Transbordeur Dada: Serge Charchoune’s ‘Volatile Leaflets’ and Transnational Communities in Europe Between the World Wars
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15.30-16.00 |
Jasna Jovanov (The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection, Novi Sad – EDUCONS University, Sremska Kamenica) Dada Art Critic Dragan Aleksić
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16.00-16.30 |
Alexandru Bar (University of Leeds) The Double Identity of Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco – The Archives of an Identity Issue
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16.30-17.00 |
Adrian Sudhalter (Independent Researcher) ‘Trouble with his Passport’ – Tristan Tzara, Legal Restrictions, and Dada Principles
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17.00-17.30 |
Coffee
Guided Tours in the Permanent and Temporary Exhibitions of the Kassák Museum by Edit Sasvári, Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi
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19.00-20.00 |
Musical Performance by Spiritus Noister Katalin Ladik, Endre Szkárosi, Zsolt Sőrés, László Lenkes
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DAY 3 | SATURDAY | 15 OCTOBER 2016
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10.00-11.00 |
Keynote
Hubert van den Berg (Palácky University, Olomouc) Problems of East-Central European Dada
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11.00-12.30 |
Panel 4. The Dada Dandy
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11.00-11.30 |
Luca Guido (IUAV-University, Iuav di Venezia) Adolf Loos – Dandy, Dada, Dancer
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11.30-12.00 |
Dan Gulea (Colegiul Național Mihai Viteazul Ploiești) Dada, a Monocle Wor(l)d
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12.00-12.30 |
Györgyi Földes (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Cyborg, Android, Dandy, and Women in Decadent and Dada Imagination
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12.30-13.00 |
Coffee
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13.00-14.00 |
Panel 5. Dada Journals
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13.00-13.30 |
Livia Plehwe (Sorbonne University, Paris – European University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder) The Avant-Garde Magazine 'G-Material zur elementaren Gestaltung' (1923-1926) – Crossing Borders in Central and East Europe
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13.30-14.00 |
Imre József Balázs (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj) Words, Sounds, Images, Theories: the Authors of the Magazine IS in the Context of Dadaism
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14.00-15.00 |
Lunch
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15.00-16.30 |
Panel 6. The Dissemination of Dada
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15.00-15.30 |
Károly Kókai (University of Vienna) Dada as an Avant-Garde Movement and as Invective
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15.30-16.00 |
Ana Simona Zelenović (University of Belgrade) Zenitism and Dada
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16.00-16.30 |
György Kálmán C. (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Continuation, Rresemblance or Structural Affinity? ‘Dada’ in the 1970s in Hungary
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16.30-17.00 |
Coffee
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17.00-18.00 |
Panel 7. East-Central European Dada? (In French with English Summaries)
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17.00-17.30 |
Nicole Manucu (Independent Researcher) Luca Dada – The Romanian Case
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17.30-18.00 |
Jenő Farkas (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) The Last Dadaist Action of Tristan Tzara
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18.00 |
Closing Remarks |
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ABSTRACTS
» KEYNOTES
» KASSÁK MUSEUM RESEARCH GROUP
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The conference is
organized by the Kassák Museum (Edit Sasvári) and the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (András Kappanyos). Technical organization is due to Gábor Dobó and Merse Pál Szeredi. Any questions should be addressed to kassakmuzeum@pim.hu.
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REGISTRATION
Due to the limited seating capacity of the conference venue in the Kassák Museum we would like to ask everyone who is interested in participating to register at kassakmuzeum@pim.hu. When you register, please state which days of the conference you would like to attend. (Facebook event RSVP does not count as registration!)
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The conference is supported by the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee, Zsolt Somlói and Katalin Spengler.
