Three Rooms Press and NYPL Jefferson Market present
2025 NYC ¡DADA! DO
A Highly Eclectic DADA Salon and The Official NYC launch of MAINTENANT 19: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art
Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 1:30–4:30 pm
NYPL Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave., New York, NY
Free Admission
An afternoon of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press and Jefferson Market Library present 2025 NYC ¡DADA! DO, a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading NYC-area maverick artists.
The event is the official NYC launch of the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 19: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, which features more than 250 visual and literary works by artists and writers from six continents.
The event takes place Sunday, October 26, 1:30–4:30 pm at NYPL Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave. in Greenwich Village. Admission is free. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.
The line-up features renowned contemporary DADA artists including Austin Alexis, Joel Allegretti, Amy Barone, Martine Bellen, Mary Campbell, Billy Cancel, Andrei Codrescu, Terese Coe, Pete Dolack, Jeff Farr, Cheryl J. Fish, Robert C. Ford, Dorothy Friedman, Thomas Fucaloro, Gordon Gilbert, Heide Hatry, Robert Hieger, Karen Hildebrand, Bob Holman, Matthew Hupert, Linda Kleinbub, Ron Kolm, David Lawton, Jane LeCroy, Cecil W. Lee, Misa Levey, Brendan Lorber, Sophie Malleret, Lois Kagan Mingus, Charles Mingus III, Carli Munoz, Uche Nduka, Valery Oisteanu, Yuko Otomo, Puma Perl, Nicca Ray, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Martina Salisbury, Hilary Sideris, Angela Sloan, Zev Torres, John J. Trause, George Wallace, and Joanie HF Zosike.
Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.
MAINTENANT 19: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the latest of the ongoing annual MAINTENANT DADA journal series, established in 2008. This year’s issue features work on the theme of ETHICS CLEANSING. In the face of right and wrong by the breed of weak or strong, humanity has placed far too much emphasis on belongings, not belonging. There was a time when ethical behavior had a fixity of purpose: the prevention of corruption, favoritism, undue influence and abuse of entrusted power, yet it is those who commit these transgressions that continue to prosper and comprise the powers who have dispensed with the need for ethics.
The MAINTENANT series is archived in leading international institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art–New York, the BelVUE Museum–Brussels, and recently at the birthplace of Dada –Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich!!! Contributors have included such artists Mark Kostabi, Raymond Pettibon, Fred Tomaselli, Nicole Eisenman, Edel Rodriguez, and Kazunori Murakami, along with writers William S. Burroughs, Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Jack Hirschman, and Jerome Rothenberg, with a strong contingent of punk musician-artist-writers including Grant Hart, Mike Watt, Exene Cervenka, Thurston Moore, and Alice Bag.
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