On Thursday, October 20 Three Rooms Press and New York Public Library (Tompkins Square Branch) presented the first of two international virtual dada salons. The October 20 event included contributors from 12 countries on two continents, as well as a packed gallery of avid dada fans. 3RP co-directors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges hosted, along with NYPL branch director Alyona Glushchenkova. The event was a celebration of modern dada and the release of MAINTENANT 16: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (ISBN 9781953103222; July 2022; Three Rooms Press, $25), available at https://threeroomspress.com/product/maintenant-16/.

Featured artists included: Jamika Ajalon (France), Peter Beda (Belgium), Volodymyr Bilyk (Ukraine), Fork Burke (Switzerland), Malik Crumpler (France), Becky Fawcett (UK), Kathleen Florence (Canada), Boni Joi (Switzerland), Marina Kazakova (Belgium), Zygimantas Kudirka (Lithuania), Béné Kusendila (Belgium), Sara Maino (Italy), Sophie Malleret (France), Mado Reznik (Argentina), Poul R. Weile (Germany) w/Wan Lan, with a presenation of the work of Fausto Grossi (Spain) and Ana Maria Guta (Romania)

Complete video below (and photo gallery below that!) or view on YouTube here