«between here and there. poetry happening»

Description

When the Dadaists gathered in 1916 at the Zurich Cabaret Voltaire, they expanded the field of poetry with their simultaneous and sound poems, introducing new sounds, voices, gestures, and images. Using quoted and invented languages, they moved between here and there: away from one, towards the other. Dada was departure and arrival, a search for new languages and ways of life, shaped by migration, precarity, and a strong desire for change. And all this took place during the First World War. What has been preserved from the dadaist impulses? There are no contemporary audio or film recordings of the activities at Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. The story of memories, creative reception, appropriation, and critical continuation is all the richer for it. To this day. The poetry happening expands the current exhibition «DadaZwischenSprachen» with a lively stage, with loud and quiet voices of the present, with workshops, discussions, and encounters with food & drinks on site. Where does today's language art of Dada lead us? What happens to poetry when it moves between bodies, languages, cultures, and times? Which voices are (not) heard? And what do we want to hear more of? With: Aaiún Nin, Adrienne Herr, dears, write, Eugene Ostashevsky, Jurczok 1001, Kinga Tóth, Lubna Abou Kheir, Melinda Nadj Abonji, Oana Popa, Uljana Wolf. Many thanks to Weiter Schreiben Schweiz and zwischentext. 30.09. 19:00–20:00 Workshop with dears, write 20:00–22:00 Performances by: Melinda Nadj Abonji, Lubna Abou Kheir, Jurczok 1001 & Kinga Tóth and subsequent discussion 01.10. 17:00–19:30 Workshop with Oana Popa (zwischentext) for the migration and post-migrant community and all whose first language is not German 20:00–22:15 Performances by Aaiún Nin, Adrienne Herr, Oana Popa, Uljana Wolf & Eugene Ostashevsky and subsequent discussion Admission: Donation Note: The exhibition is open until 20:00 on these days and free for the happening audience. Additionally, at 19:00, there is a guided tour of the exhibition with Salome Hohl and Sandro Zanetti (registration requested at info@cabaretvoltaire.ch). The poetry happening takes place as part of the exhibition «DadaZwischenSprachen», a result of a cooperation between the University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. Sandro Zanetti, Romance Studies, Department of General and Comparative Literature) and Cabaret Voltaire (Salome Hohl), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF-Agora project «Dada zwischen den Sprachen»). Participants in the happening: Prof. Dr. Tomáš Glanc (University of Zurich, Institute for Slavic Studies and Eastern European Studies) and Joëlle Bischof (Cabaret Voltaire). Contributing and additional information: Aaiún Nin, Adrienne Herr, dears, write, Eugene Ostashevsky, Jurczok 1001, Kinga Tóth, Lubna Abou Kheir, Melinda Nadj Abonji, Oana Popa, Uljana Wolf. Many thanks to Weiter Schreiben Schweiz and zwischentext.