The UCBA Art Gallery is accepting submissions and proposals for an exhibition of contemporary Dada-inspired works celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding the Dada movement in Zurich, DADA LIVES! The initial number of the new journal, MetaDada: The International Journal of Dada Mining, will serve as the exhibition catalogue for the show, which is being sponsored, in part, by MetaDada.
Dada is not an historical art movement nor is it a style or fashion. Dada is an ancient frame of mind, given distinct form and name in the early twentieth-century, which repudiates hubris, elitism and human self-importance. Therefore, please send nonsense, lunacy, foolishness, unintelligible gibberish, and serious dialectic bullshit produced in the most elegant, refined manner feasible. Emotions, sentiment and good sense must be checked at the door (concealed carrying of such feeble weapons will not be permitted, if you want to hide something get a gun).
We want work in large quantities, as soon as humanly possible, that emerges through spontaneous action, random processes, pure chance, and sophisticated indeterminate approaches. We embrace work that skewers reason, logic, art, history, science, religion, faith, math, politics, advertising, capitalism, socialism, communism, fashion, media, philosophy, technology, sex and most other facets of human life that have led us into the inescapable and terminal cul-de-sacs of progress, growth, wealth, power, vanity and belief.
The Exhibition begins April 25, 2016 and runs through June 3, 2016.
The Opening Reception will be Friday, April 29, from 5-8 pm, with a full day of readings and performances during the day on Friday.
Call for Submission Prospectus-Exhibit .pdf
Call for Submission Prospectus-Journal .pdf