Mixing Our Art Historical Metaphors
Well, we owe you a reminder that tonight is PICA’s DADA Ball although we have to admit that it’s getting on our art historical nerves that PICA continues to promise “surrealism” at a DADA ball. Sure, you’ll all want to wear your Schiaparelli gowns inspired by Cocteau and Dali when you hear “surrealism,” but the one, she is not the other!
By all means, be mad, be outrageous in dress and deportment for an evening–”vigorous, determined, enthusiastic” (Tzara)–but think Arp and Kandinski not Dali, and do it in the spirit of the lovely Emmy Hennings, the poet and cabaret singer who co-founded the Cabaret Voltaire in 1915 with her husband Hugo Ball.
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Kurt Schwitters
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The DADA Ball begins at 10 PM at The Works, corner of 18th and Northrop.
Just for fun, Mr. Alvin Valley’s “dada print dress” from his Spring 04 collection. What does it all mean? Dada.
