Sept. 12, 2023
Diagramming Dada: Dance, Poetry and Gender in the Archives of the Avant-Garde
A talk by Trevor Stark
Join Associate Professor of Art History Trevor Stark for his lecture "Diagramming Dada: Dance, Poetry & Gender in the Avant-Garde Archives".
How to preserve for the purposes of repetition what is intended to be ephemeral? This traditional task of the score or diagram was put under pressure by the poets and dancers associated with the Dada movement in Zurich during the years of the First World War who invented new forms of notations for their chaotic dance and poetic performances. It will also reflect on the status of gender in Zurich Dada and the limitations of the archive.
The talk will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22 at Contemporary Calgary.