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8th INTERNATIONAL DADA FESTIVAL / SOLUTIONS FOR BASEL / 2012
Connecting the local art
community has been the
Dada festivals’ goal ever
since their beginning. Over twelve years later, in 2012, they ranked as the premier show of
their kind, showcasing art
alongside rubbish with a
strong and smelly curatorial perspective.
Their tradition of excellence
across a wide range of genres offers visitors the most
untamed art that the world‘s
best galleries could never
offer. In Prague, Zürich and
Kolín, the week of the Dada
festival teems with parallel exhibitions and cultural
events, creating an exciting
environment that deepens and strengthens the rela-
tionship between artists,
curators and collectors,
without having to involve
any greedy gallerists.
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The program began running in Feburary 2014 as a non-for-profit interlocal center for contemporary art. Our mission has always been to create a dialogue between individual genres and make the current happenings on the art scene accessible to the wildest public. We spermed original projects in the fields of visual arts, theater and comedy as well as interdisciplinary and experimental platforms, to create a space where art is alive and artists are present, enhancing a direct exchange between international artists and the visitors, as well as between different fields and generations.
In the front of the shop at visitors encountered the inhabited sculpture designed and curated by Mark Divo. The program of Solution consisted in four dramaturgic departments. The art program presented the contemporary art scene of Zürich and Prague, holding two to three exhibitions per month in the white cube fitted with high-end video equipment. The critical dinner focuses on contemporary food, as well as experimental interdisciplinary curators and critics, often involving visual artists, art historians, or comedians. Besides the four dramaturgic departments the program of The Solution was oriented to inter-genre and educational projects which offer the public new alternatives of encounters against contemporary boredom.
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INTERNATIONAL DADA FESTIVALS
ZÜRICH / BASEL / KOLÍN
Over more than a decade, the international Dada Festivals have offered an inspiring and varied Dada program in unusual venues. Each ones provided a stage where artists and performers, working within different cultural disciplines, meet, interact and exchange ideas.
Click to travel through Dada Festivals from 2002 – 2015:
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PREVIEW IN BED WITH MARK DIVO
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THE FOURTH
INTERNATIONAL
DADA FESTIVAL
3.2. – 1.5. 2003 / ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND
Back in Zurich I found no available unoccupied properties I could squat for an inhabited sculpture. For the first time in my life in Zurich I was
paying rent and continued to sell illegal cheap Portuguese beer from my bed during salon parties in the rented commercial space over “Sexy 2000”
in the Sihlhallenstrasse.
After the demise of the Plattenstrasse squat the group of the former Dada occupiers were homeless again, and some of
them even spent nights in police custody after unsuccessful squatting attempts. It was nearly February again and the next Dada festival weeks were
due. To express our indignation about the reopening of the Cabaret Voltaire as a Swatch Souvenir Shop, we decided to surround the desecrated
birthplace of Dadaism with actions at adjacent locations in the Niederdorf area under the slogan “Sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a
chicken“.
Pastor Leumund discovered a suitable location for our stage program in the sex movie theater Stüssihof. As the base for the festival weeks
we targeted the empty gallery arcade in the Rämistrasse, which was soon to be converted into an art library. After taking over these locations two
weeks before the start of the festival I was able to sign a “user loan” agreement for a period of several months.
The opening event took place in the
Casabar, right next to the Cabaret Voltaire, whose operators supplied us with drinks from their beer cellar during the Cabaret times and to whom
we had a very good rapport. The eight gallery ateliers in prominent locations rapidly mutated into bizarre parallel adventure playgrounds for adults
incorporating individual artists as well as collectives such as Marks Blond or the Hot Lobster Jazz Band. Every day a copy of „Chicken News“ came
out featuring the outpourings of visitors recorded on open-to-all typewriters.
ARTISTS: Ajana Calugar / Andrea Muheim / Anton Beton / Anne Von Gunthen / Andreas Niederhauser / Alexis le bien / Bitnik / Biopop / Boris Von Der Burg / Blitztheater Zürich
Chloe Nicolet di Felix / Christian Anderson / David Thayer / Dimitry Bulnygin / Denis Stoffner / Dogan Firuzbay / David Renggli / Derek al Rämsi / DJ Blade / DJ Patex / Directantrieb / DJ Betty Bossa / Elektra Sturmschnell / Ernst Scholl Trio / Ernst Shoeller / Etrit Hasler / Fehlfunktion / Florian Kalotay / Franziska Koch / Frau Kraushaar / Good by Lenin / Guerillia Girls / Ich jetzt täglich / Ingo Giezendanner / Grrrr / Gabriel Serra / Hollow Man / Habib Afsar / Jenny Fröhlich / Jurczok 1001
Kay-Zee / Ken und Barbie / Kiilo / Kcor / Lucien Samaha / Lucia Schüriger / Loredana Sperini / Malik Sabotage / Marcel Kühne / Mark Divo / Marks Blond
Mauro Arnold / Michael Schmacke / Mickry 3 / Micromops / Mirzlekid / Minimal Turntablists / Max Rheimer / Maria Pamiansky / Margarita Tarnover / Mark Matthes / Monoblock B. / Mo Diener / Moshmosh / Nanu / Nina Strüver / Oskura / Playme / Pascal Häuserman / Rockmaster / Raphael Perret / Räto Jost / Rachel de Rothechild
Rätsel / Sarah Kreuter / Smith and Smart / School of Zuversicht / Seb de la Tor / Svetlana Mazoulevskaja / Smith & Smart / Sista Esta / Tanja Roscic / Triphase und sic
Teresa Pereira / Urs Lehmann / Veronica Ehrensprenger / Wolga Gambit / Zaccheo Zilioli / Zizidää