Three Rooms Press and New York Public Library present

2024 Virtual Dada Festival: 

International—Part I

A Highly Eclectic Online DADA Performance Event 

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 | 1:00 pm EST (18:00h GMT)

Live Via NYPL Zoom (Advance Registration Required)

Three Rooms Press and Jefferson Market Library present the 2024 Virtual Dada Festival, a 4-part wild ride of contemporary performance by leading Dada performances artists and writers, running November 12-14, 2024. 

The INTERNATIONAL–PART I event features contributors to the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 18: Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (2024, Three Rooms Press), which features 248 visual and literary works by artists and writers from 33 countries on 6 continents. The virtual event takes place Tuesday, November 12, 1:00 pm EST (18:00h GMT) via zoom. Advance registration is required (to register, visit https://www.nypl.org/events/calendar?location=39&target%5B%5D=ad).

Performers include Michael Georg Bregel (Germany), Wer Da (Germany), Dario Roberto Dioli (Italy), Rachel Dixon (United Kingdom), Sandra Gea (Spain), Fausto Grossi (Spain), Genco Gulan (Turkey), Boni Joi (Switzerland), and Béné Kusendila (Belgium). 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 250 contributors from 34 countries and 6 continents, offering work on the theme of PLUTOCRAZY, a state in which creativity becomes currency to expose know-nothingism with vigilance and address collective challenges. With stunning cover art by awared-winning journalist/artist, Molly Crabapple, MAINTENANT 18 furthers the ongoing relevance of Dada, an art movement which began as an artistic response to the horrors of World War I.

The MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, explores themes of politics, humanity, philosophy, and current concerns from an antiwar, anarchic (and often eye-popping) perspective. Past issues include work by artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Joel Hubaut, Heide Hatry, Avelino de Araujo, Pawel Kuczynski, Inas Al-Soqi, Giovanni Fontana, Bob Branaman, Syporca Whandal, and Kazunori Murakami; past writers have included Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Andrei Codrescu, Harry E. Northup, Malik Crumpler, Maw Shein Win, and more, with a strong contingent of punk rock creators, including Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Alice Bag, Bibbe Hanson and more. 

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