Day de Dada Performance Art Collective is a cooperative of performance artists based in NY. The group plans, sponsors, and enacts spontaneous, experimental performance art pieces with audience participation & interaction
A reminder – a SCORE is a set of instructions, like a recipe, and can be performed literally as written, or interpreted by the performer in their own way.
Images and Video from the 2024 Valentine Score Exchange:
Thank you to all the artists who responded to the recent Mail Art Call for the “DADA DOMICILE” exhibit at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY. Special thanks to Mary Campbell for organizing the project.
“DADA DOMICILE” was produced by the Day de Dada Collective as an exhibit of Dada/Fluxus-inspired doll-sized furniture and household items displayed in structures of 1:6 scale (Barbie doll size.) The exhibit was part of “Dada in the House: 20 Years of Performance Art on Staten Island” and was open at the Newhouse Center from October 14 through December 30, 2023.
As part of the exhibit, artist Zach Rothman-Hicks created the Dada Domicle Mail Art Map using custom features available in Google Maps to show the worldwide reach of Mail Art. Click here to see the Dada Domicle Mail Art Map bit.ly/DomicileMailArtMap
Dada Domicile Mail Art was received from the following artists
Helen Levin Mary Campbell DJ VS Taje Crawford Viv de Dada/ Mark Semanchik Meg Graham Emily Werzler Diane Matyas Fritz Demmer Lenny Librizzi Jonathan Leiter Douglas LaTourette Philip Sanders Larry Schwabacher Marisa Tornello Kristi Pfister Joel Cohen Meridith McNeal Brian Ellis Zach Rothman-Hicks Barbara Lubliner Ed Woodham Lulu Lolo Tamara Wyndham Miriam Bloom Mary Pinto Vera Tineo Patricia Dahlman The Dollar Store Liz Klein Jonathan Stangroom Jane Wang Sinclair Scripa Katherine Ruiz Rosalie Gancie Jennifer Weigel Ray Vassar Semanchik Sarah Kolb Robert Matejcek Ruby Re-Usable Allen Bukoff/Janice Putman Adamandia Kapsalis Cathi Schwalbe Pate Conaway Reid Wood Kelly Courtney Catherine Bennett Bibiana Padilla Maltos Nina Endl Skooter Shelby Montevirgen Karen Kaplan Luc Fierens Elena Marini Leslie Lowe Diana Magallon Toan Vinh La Susan Gold Virginie Loreau Dorothee Zombronner Thorsten Fuhrmann Ann Kopka Adam Blackshaw
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This is the second year for the Day de Dada VALENTINES Score Meetup ONLINE. It’s a Valentine Score Exchange (but even if you don’t want to participate in the exchange you can still join us) on Sunday, February 18 at 4pm. (TBD Via ZOOM, JITSI or Facebook Live)
Send and receive a VALENTINE SCORE. Send a simple Score that needs no props, or send your Valentine person stuff to do stuff with. On Feb 18, 2024 we will meet online at 4pm ET and everyone can do the valentines score they received. We will also have a bit of time at the end to socialize.
A reminder – a SCORE is a set of instructions, like a recipe, and can be performed literally as written, or interpreted by the performer in their own way. FOR VISUAL ARTISTS: You can send a visual to your valentine and they can interpret it as they wish, and so, when you receive your valentine you can respond by creating a visual!
HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
If you want to participate, RSVP your mailing address to daydedada@yahoo.com by Jan. 22, 2024.
On Jan 23 you will get in return the name & address of someone else who is participating – YOUR VALENTINE. You will need to send a VALENTINES SCORE to that person, and try to get it into the mail before Jan 31, 2024.
Someone will send you a VALENTINES SCORE before our meetup (Feb 18, 2024). Open it ahead of time and plan a short performance (1-2 minutes) that includes or references the score you received.
If you do not want to participate in the exchange but still want to join us, email daydedada@yahoo.com to get the link for the online meetup. The meetup will be at 4pm ET on Sunday February 18 and be online.
Celebrating Day de Dada Exhibit “Dada in the House” at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY . Closing Party 12/30/23.
Thank you to (in order of appearance) John Bostrom Mark Kehoe Milenka Berengolc Dan Contrino Reid Wood Joel Cohen Sticker Dude Rachel Jensen Barbara Lubliner Gail Wood Mark Semanchik
Gallery visitors talk about their favorite piece in the exhibit and why they like it at “Dada in the House” 20 years of Day de Dada Performance Art Collective at Newhouse Galleries, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY December 2023
Day de Dada Mail Art Workshop: Who, What, Where is Home? with Special Guest – The Sticker Dude
Dada de Dada hosted a Mail Art Workshop in the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art on December 10, 2023, as part of the exhibition “Dada in the House: 20 Years in Staten Island.” At this hands-on workshop, we invited visitors to explore Mail Art, a fun and expressive art form. Supplies and guidance were provided to help map, describe, create, and send Mail Art about personal concepts of Home.
Special Guest The Sticker Dude, Joel has been exchanging mail art since the mid 1980’s. Joel collects, creates, and solicits artwork, puns, and aphorisms – the visual and verbal symbols surrounding us. He strips them of their old context and supplies a new one. As a professional printer, he reproduces them in quantity in readily accessible media and distributes them as freely and personally as possible. Joel’s work also includes musical and multimedia performance art.
DADA IN THE HOUSE is made possible through generous support from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. DADA IN THE HOUSE is made possible by a DCLA Art Fund Grant from Staten Island Arts, with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Friday, Nov 10, 2023 “Punk Flux Get Fluxed Flux Your Flux Off!”
Day de Dada Artists Barbara Lubliner, Viv de Dada, Mark Semanchik, and Sticker Dude joined the artists of Fifth Wall Productions for a score, noise, lamps, piano, cats playing keyboards, analog, flying oranges, nonsense fluxus-filled evening at Pageant in Brooklyn, NY. It was wonderful!
Many Day de Dada artists have been influenced by the experimental art produced during the Fluxus Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Learn some of the main tenets of Fluxus – intermedia, action scores, interactive performance, chance, humor and the priority of process. Three artists, Barbara Lubliner, Jonathan Leiter, and Marisa Tornello, will present short performances and then we will have a moderated discussion to consider how what we observed in the performances are connected to the Fluxus concepts.
WHEN: November 12 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM WHERE: Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor, Building G, galleries 1 and 2 ADMISSION: General admission: $5 (gallery admission included) | Student/Senior: $4 | Snug Harbor Member: Free
Marisa Tornello is a composer, vocalist, performance and video artist whose work explores mental health themes through graphic score, structured improvisation, poetry, and extended vocal technique. @riitornello
Jonathan Leiteris an artist, writer and performer who has performed under the name Reuben Sandwich since 1980, hosting Reuben’s Flophouse, evenings of variety in numerous downtown NYC spaces. For the very first Day de Dada, he debuted as Minnie Van Driver, International Ambassador of Love, who performed throughout NYC for over 10 years. @jointheleanrat
Barbara Lublinerexpresses ideas by transforming traditional and nontraditional materials into concept-based artworks that are iconic and quirky. She performs as Ms. Muscle. Ms. Muscle encourages you to be your breast, to be your biggest and breast self. She will lead you in a few exercises to improve your fluxability and help you to be your breast.
Panel moderated by Dr. Jim Jeffers, M.F.A., Ed.D. Professor of Graphic Design & Digital Media at Indian River State College, Florida. Jeffers is an educator, designer and artist, creating performance work for over two decades, primarily expressed in his Superhero Actions which he performed with the Day de Dada Performance Collective at several events.
DADA IN THE HOUSE is made possible through generous support from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
DADA IN THE HOUSE is made possible by a DCLA Art Fund Grant from Staten Island Arts, with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Zoom Event and Open Performance part of Fluxfest NYC 2023
Saturday 10/14/23 – 4 to 6pm ETG Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, Staten Island, NY etgstores.com/bookcafe
Coordinated by Day de Dada Performance Art Collective
Technical Services by Taylor Moore, Video Edit by Lydia Grey
Participating Artists:
Allan Revich, Allen Bukoff, Andrew Oleksiuk, Barbara Lubliner, Bibiana Padilla Moltos, Catherine Bennett, Jane Wang, John Bennett, Mark Bloch, Mary Campbell, Melissa McCarthy, Reid Wood, Ri Tornello, SA Griffin, Susan Gold, The Kinsinas, Viv de Dada, Michael Orzechowski, Jean Kusina, Jennifer Weigel, Jonathan Leiter, Guy Grant, Shelby Montenegro, Adam Roussopoulos, Picasso Gaglione, Viv de Dada, Joel Cohen, Jokie Wilson