Three Rooms Press and NYPL Jefferson Market present
2024 NYC ¡DADA! DO PART II
A Highly Eclectic DADA Performance Event plus Part I of the NYC launch of MAINTENANT 18: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art

Thursday, October 24, 2024 | 6 pm
NYPL Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave., New York, NY
Phone 1-212-243-4334
Free Admission

An evening of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press and Jefferson Market Library present 2024 NYC ¡DADA! DO: PART II: a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading NYC-area maverick artists.

The event includes Part I of the NYC launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 18: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2024, Three Rooms Press), which features more than 250 visual and literary works by artists and writers from six continents.

The event takes place Thursday, October 24, 6 pm at NYPL Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave. in Greenwich Village. Admission is free. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.

The line-up features renowned contemporary DADA artists including Austin Alexis, Joel Allegretti, Amy Barone, Terese Coe, Pete Dolack, Gabriel Don, Jeff Farr, Ed Go, Bibbe Hansen, Heide Hatry, Karen Hildebrand, Ron Kolm, Eleni Kourti, David Lawton, Jane
LeCroy, Patricia Leonard, Linda Lerner, Misa Levey, James B. Nicola, Yuko Otomo, Wes Rickert, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Martina Salisbury, Phil Demise Smith, Gerd Stern, and George Wallace. Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.

MAINTENANT 18: 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 work on the them of PLUTOCRAZY. Creativity is the currency and the amount has no limit. The Dada artists and writers separate Merch and State by forging a non-monetary vision which reveals strategies to achieve socio-political and economic equality that expose the military-industrialist complex by linking warfare with capitalism. There are 2,640 billionaires in the world and we’ve got each of them right where we want them.

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, Edel Rodriguez, 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 peter@threeroomspress.com, or call 212-731-0574.