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THE CASE FOR NONSENSE

ARTHUR JAFA & ELISSA BLOUNT MOORHEAD (TNEG)

 

ABOUT THIS SECTION

A century ago, at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, a subversive anti-art movement was founded in response to the devastation of what would be World War I. Dadaism used the absurd and the irrational to critique the unreasonable politics of the time. Upon the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Dada, this series embraces the irrational as a productive political space.

 

 

  • Speaker Bio

    TNEG™, a motion picture studio “modeled on the production philosophies of Motown, Pixar, and Dogme”. TNEG’s principal aim is the creation a black cinema “capable of matching the power, beauty and alienation of black music”. TNEG’s ...

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