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### Dada East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire ###
## ### Dada Est? Românii de la Cabaret Voltaire ## ###
 
Opening: September 20 2006 from 6 - 9 pm in cabaret
voltaire Zurich

Works by the contemporary Romanian artists Mircea
Cantor, Stefan Constantinescu, Ion Grigorescu,
Sebastian Moldovan, Ciprian Muresan, Dan Perjovschi,
Lia Perjovschi, and Cristi Pogacean provide support to
look back at the moment of the creation of Dada and to
ask what remains appealing for today?s artists. This
is also the question that has moved cabaret voltaire
since its opening in 2004. 

Dada was officially born on 5 February 1916, when Hugo
Ball and Emmy Hennings launched their literary cabaret
with the name Cabaret Voltaire in restaurant Meierei
on Spiegelgasse 1 in Zurich[2]. Besides Hugo Ball and
Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Max Oppenheimer, a Russian
balalaika sextet and others there was also, as Ball
mentions in his journal ?Flight out of Time? 1916, ?an
oriental looking deputation of four small men, with
portfolios and paintings squeezed under their arms;
bowing discretely umpteen times?: Marcel Janco the
painter, Tristan Tzara, George Janco, and either Jules
Janco or Arthur Segal.
 
Thanks to Tom Sandqvist's research presented in the
book Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
(2006), it is now possible to take a closer look at
these Romanians and at their cultural and historical
roots, which have influenced the activities in Zurich
in a very eminent and peculiar way.
 
Following Janco and Tzara into a historical search for
traces of the conception of Dada, the reopened cabaret
voltaire aims, in its forthcoming exhibition ?Dada
East? The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire? to find out
more about its own history and is already rewriting
it. These traces also give us the reason to debate the
idea of ?Dada East? in a contemporary context and to
search vehemently after its potential and importance
for the contemporary Romanian cultural scene and for
the understanding of Dada in general.


7pm Welcome and introduction by Adrian Notz, Dr. Ioan
Maxim, Ambassador of Romania in Switzerland and Tom
Sandqvist, author of "Dada East - The Romanians of
Cabaret Votlaire"
 
6 - 9pm Reading of ?Beelzebub?s Tales to His Grandson:
All And Everything? by G.I. Gurdjieff, read by
Christina Kraft. A proposal of Mircea Cantor.
Also the artists Lia Perjovschi and Dan Perjovschi are
present.
 

###
Curated by Adrian Notz in cooperation with Raimund
Meyer and Juri Steiner.
With great support of Michael Ilk, Nicolae Tzone, the
Embassy of Romania in Switzerland and the Romanian
Cultural Institute in Bucharest.
Scenography and realization by Kunstumsetzung GmbH,
Zurich.
Special thanks to Ion Pop and Tom Sandqvist.



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