Feb 2, 2018
Recently published on Sightlines: The Struggle for Happiness, or What Is American about Black Dada, an essay by Adrienne Edwards, the Walker’s curator at large, on the “overwhelmingly American assemblage” that is the Black Dada Reader. Adam Pendleton’s concept of “Black Dada”—which has guided his art making practice—melds references from LeRoi Jones’s 1964 poem “Black Dada Nihilismus” and Hugo Ball’s “Dada Manifesto” of 1916. To give context to Pendleton’s work in the exhibition I am you, you are too, we share an essay byWalker Curator at Large Adrienne Edwards from the “overwhelmingly American assemblage” that is Pendleton’s Black Dada Reader. Above: Installation detail of Belgian Pavillion at the Venice Biennale (2015)