Two evenings of smashing, curious, and madcap performance and poetry are slated for NYC as Three Rooms Press and Jefferson Market Library present NYC DADA-DO 2022 Part I and II: two wild rides of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading NYC maverick artists and writers.

Both events include the NYC launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 16: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2022, Three Rooms Press), which features more than 240 visual and literary works by artists and writers from 40 countries on seven continents.

Part I is Thursday, October 6, 6 pm, followed by Part II on Thursday, October 13, 6 pm. Both events will take place at Jefferson Market Library (425 6th Ave., in Greenwich Village). Admission is free. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t. 

The lineups for both shows are incredible, with 23 performance artists on each night.

NYC DADA DO PART I: October 6, 2022
Advance Registration: on.nypl.org/3BojVjQ

Performers: Austin Alexis, Amy Barone, Andrei Codrescu, Robert C. Ford, Meghan Grupposo, Bibbe Hansen, Karen Hildebrand, Eleni Kourti, Linda Lerner, Eliette Markhbein, Charles Mingus III, Lois Kagan Mingus, Valery Oisteanu, Yuko Otomo, John S. Paul, Nicca Ray, Angela Sloan, Paul Sohar, Christine Sloan Stoddard, John J. Trause, Ann Firestone Ungar, Lynnea Villanova, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, and Joanie HF Zosike

NYC DADA DO PART II: October 13, 2022
Advance Registration: on.nypl.org/3eUQu17

PART II (October 13) includes: Joel Allegretti, Mark Blickley, Billy Cancel, Terese Coe, Gabriel Don, Jeff Farr, Cheryl J. Fish, Dorothy Friedman, Thomas Fucaloro, Robert Gibbons, Heide Hatry, Matthew Hupert, Jerry Johnson, David Lawton, Jane Lecroy, Ron Kolm, Sophie Malleret, Karen Neuberg, Jane Ormerod, Puma Perl, Zev Torres, George Wallace, and Francine Witte.

Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host both events.

For additional information and reservations, email [email protected].

MAINTENANT 16: 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 240 contributors from 40 countries and 7 continents, offering work on the them of NYET ZERO, intended to lay the groundwork for an artistic power grab using DADA—in the form of original art, poetry, and writing aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the engine-idle rich on recycled paper. As editors Carlaftes and Georges note, “We create to inspire imagination; through imagination the world has a chance at a future of actual peace—and, of equal importance—a future, period.”

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, Jean-Jacques Lebel, 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.

Media questions and interview requests: please contact Three Rooms Press co-director Peter Carlaftes at [email protected], or call 212-731-0574.