Dada is Dead. Long live Dada!

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WAIWAV

It is July 2nd 2022.

31 D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent artists converge on 30 galleries across Britain and Northern Ireland on the 102nd anniversary of the 1st DADA international Exhibition in Berlin.

What if the Dada movement had started in 2020, during lockdown? What would they have done? Is our modern milieux a timelier moment to resurrect the spirit and essence of Dada? We say yes!

From 12 - 6pm in the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londondderry, Bel crocheted themselves into a body-sized crochet net made of recyled tshirt yarn.

Find out more about the performance here, and see the gallery for more images.

The cover of the WAIWAV zine. It shows a collage created by Sasha Saben-Callaghan.

Artwork credit: Sasha Saben-Callaghan

 
 
Bel fully cacooned in the pinka nd blue crochet pod, with their hands working around the edge of the closing hole. Around them the food has been eaten and the skins discarded.

Photography credit: Iain McHugh

Bel performed their intervention at the Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~LondonDerry.

A white background with black and grey text. The text reads CCA DERRY~LONDONDERRY
 

WAIWAV is made possible through the support of the Ampersand Foundation and DASH arts.

Red text on a grey background reading the AMBERSAND FOUNDATION. To the left of the text is the foundation's logo, a large red 'and' sign with the top right corner erased.
Black text on a white background. The test reads DASH, with a different coloured line beneath each letter. The lines are blue, yellow, green and pink. There is a pink dot where the horizontal stroke of the letter 'A' would normally be.
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