Dada and the power of nonsense
Jade French, Jade Montserrat, Lottie Whalen and Noreen Masud talk to Shahidha Bari about the relevance of collage, the Dada art movement today and artists such as Hannah Hoch.
Subversion in art and writing and a project to re-imagine Dada. Curator Jade French, artist Jade Montserrat, writer Lottie Whalen and 2020 New Generation Thinker Noreen Masud are in conversation with Shahidha Bari.
You can find more about today's guests and their research at https://jademontserrat.com/
https://www.jadefrench.co.uk/research
http://www.takedadaseriously.com/
http://lucywritersplatform.com/author/lottie-whalen/
https://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/staff/?id=17758
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten academics each year to use their research to make radio.
In the Free Thinking archives you can find a playlist featuring artist interviews and discussions https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p026wnjl
Radio 3 broadcast a ten part series looking at the life of Arthur Cravan called The Escape Artist https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000djhy
Producer: Robyn Read
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