Dada, a prolific and subversive art movement, first emerged in Zurich during the First World War, and then spread to centres such as Berlin, Paris and New York. Through their new works – sound poems, collage, performance – the Dada artists question Western society struggling with the first World War, while appropriating the cultural and artistic forms of non-western cultures such as Africa, Oceania and America.
The Musée de l’Orangerie is presenting an exhibition on these exchanges with African, American Indian and Asian works alongside those of the Dadaists – Hanna Höch, Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Marcel Janco, Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Haussmann, Man Ray and Picabia, among others.
The Dada soirées will feature archive material of films of dance, sound documents, music, revealing the diversity, inventiveness and radical nature of Dada productions – textiles, graphics, posters, assemblages, wooden reliefs, dolls and puppets – in relation to the strange beauty and rarity of the non-western works: a Hemba statue and Makonde mask from Africa, a Hannya mask from Japan, the prow of a Maori pirogue…
Special Evening:
FRIDAY 16 FEBRUARY
8:30 pm • Jeu de Paume • SUM ? Ergo sum Incognito !
Dialogic performance of concordant contrariness presented by Delphine Jonas and RYBN.ORG
10 pm • musée de l’Orangerie • Dada poésie
Until 11 pm • musée de l’Orangerie • “Dada Africa. Sources et influences extra-occidentales” (Exhibition)
Until 11 pm • Jeu de Paume • “Raoul Hausmann”, “Susan Meiselas” and “Damir Očko” (Exhibitions)
SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY
7 pm • Jeu de Paume • Ceremony: D.A.D.A. degree awards Performative tour of the “Raoul Hausmann” exhibition by Viviana Moin and Pierre Courcelle
8:30 pm • Jeu de Paume • “Optophonétique” (Performance) with Geneviève Strosser, Florent Jodelet, Peter Keene and Jacques Donguy
10 pm • musée de l’Orangerie • Dada poésie
Until 11 pm • musée de l’Orangerie • “Dada Africa. Sources et influences extra-occidentales” (Exhibition)
Until 11 pm • Jeu de Paume • “Raoul Hausmann”, “Susan Meiselas” and “Damir Očko” (Exhibitions)
SUNDAY 18 & MONDAY 19 FEBRUARY
8 pm • musée de l’Orangerie • En filigrane : sur des mélodies de Bach (Concert)
Until 9 pm • musée de l’Orangerie •”Dada Africa. Sources et influences extra-occidentales” (Exhibition)
Jusqu’à 19 h • Jeu de Paume • (only on Sunday, it is closed on Monday) “Raoul Hausmann”, “Susan Meiselas” and “Damir Očko” (Exhibitions)
More information at www.jeudepaume.org
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Jeu de Paume / musée de l'Orangerie
1, place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris France
February 16, 2018 to February 19, 2018
