As a member of the organizing committee, Elena Galtsova (see on this same site: 2005_Image de Moscou) informed me of the intention of Moscow artists and researchers to celebrate the centenary of Dada. This is how I received the invitation reproduced below. Besides the volume Dada, histoire d'une subversion, written with Michel Carassou, published in 2005 by Fayard editions, and my numerous articles on the subject, I was interested in the presence of Dada in Moscow, and notably in the zaum language, for fifty years, since I had often discussed it with Benjamin Goriély (1898-1986), essayist and poet himself, author of: Les Poètes dans la révolution russe (Gallimard, 1934), the first French work giving an account with understanding and precision of poetic activity during the Bolshevik revolution. I had moreover given him a place in the first issue of the journal studying the Dada movement in 1964. I therefore participated with great interest in this important international meeting, where I was able to measure the interest that Russian researchers had in their poetic past, particularly in a curious room, with entirely modern interior architecture, of the "Jewish Center of Tolerance" (sic), while taking advantage of the in-depth visit of avant-garde works at the Tretyakov Gallery. Note that the interventions delivered during this colloquium have not been published to date.

Original colloquium program, in Russian

Program in English (compressed format): The Moscow Department of Culture The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovskii The Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences The International Academy of Zaum International Conference
"100 times DADA" 10-12 November 2016 with the participation of The Center of Avant-garde of Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center Alexander Scriabin Memorial Museum The French-Russian studies center with the assistance of AVC CHARITY Moscow 2016 organizing committee S. Birukov, E. Galtsova, K. Dudakov-Kashuro, D. Karpov, A. Lobov, V. Polonski, N. Sipovskaya, V. Terekhina November, 10 Thursday The Center of Avant-garde of Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (Obraztsova St., 11, build. 1A) 10:00–10:30 Registration 10:30–11:00 Official opening 11:00–13:00 Morning meeting 14:00–18:00 Afternoon meeting 19:00 "Co-Sounding" Performance by Sergei Birukov and Sergei Letov for 100th Anniversary of DADA movement November, 11 Friday State Institute for Art Studies (Kozitsky pereulok, 5) 10:00–13:00 Morning meeting 14:00–18:00 Afternoon meeting 19:30 Alexander Scriabin Memorial Museum (Bolshoy Nikolopeskovsky Pereulok, 11) "Time is running" Vladimir Tarasov – percussion Larry Ochs – saxophones Mark Dresser – contrabass Lev Rubinstein – poet November, 12 Saturday State Institute for Art Studies (Kozitsky pereulok, 5) 10:00–12:40 Morning meeting 13:20–16:20 Afternoon meeting 16:30 Projection of the documentary film "Valentin Parnakh: not here and not now" (2011) November, 10 Thursday The Center of Avant-garde of Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center (Obraztsova St., 11, build. 1A) 10:00–10:30 Registration 10:30–11:00 Official opening Aleksey Lobov – director of The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovskii Natalya Sipovskaya – director of the State Institute for Art Studies Vadim Polonsky – director of the The Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrey Sarabyanov – curator of the The Center of Avant-garde of Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center 11:00–14:00 Morning meeting Moderator: Elena Galtsova
Henri Béhar Paris III University – Nouvelle Sorbonne (Paris, France) DADA. Approximation ("Approximate Dada") Nina Getashvili The Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Moscow, Russia) Dada. The Museumification of Radicalism. 11:40–11:50 Q & A 11:50–12:20 Coffee Break Anastasia Boie Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia) Question of expression of an anti-aesthetics of dadaism and its classification. Günter Berghaus University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain) Futurist Roots in Zurich Dada 13:00–13:10 Q & A 13:10–14:00 Pause 14:00–18:00 Afternoon meeting Moderator: Konstantin Dudakov-Kashuro Galina Antipova The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovskii (Moscow, Russia) RENE CLAIR'S ENTRE-ACTE AS DADAIST AND AS FUTURIST MOVIE Catherine Boschian-Campaner The University of Lorraine (Metz, France) Cocteau and Dada: connection-lightning (Cocteau et Dada, une liaison-éclair) Elena Galtsova The Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) The poetic training in "Seven Dada manifestos" by Tristan Tzara Olga Korzinova National Research Institute "Higher School of Economics" (Moscow, Russia) The Secret Life of Salvador Dali and Marcel Duchamp 15:20–15:40 Q& A 15:40–16:00 Coffee break Mikhail Karasik Artist (Saint Petersburg, Russia) DADA – between the Constructivism and DADA: video-presentation Elena Yushkova Independent researcher (Vologda, Russia) Isadora Duncan's 'Free' Dance and Dada Art David Bernstein The museum-reserve Tsaritsyno (Moscow, Russia) For the poetics of the transgression: Hans Arp Andrei Rossomakhin European University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Once more about the Duchamp's "Fountain": authorship and problems of interpretation Yuliana Kaminskaya Saint Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Hugo Ball and his "Krippenspiel". Hundred years ago – hundred years in future Elena Rimshina The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) Da-da and No-No in the Russian posters of the 2000's 18:00-18.20 Q & A 19:00 "Co-Sounding" Performance by Sergei Birukov and Sergei Letov for 100th Anniversary of DADA movement Poetry by Velimir Khlebnikov, Vasily Kamensky, Aleksey Kruchenykh, Vladimir Mayakovsky,
Aleksandr Tufanov, Hugo Ball, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, Sergei Birukov Sergei Letov – free jazz musician (saxophone, flute, electronic instruments) Sergei Birukov – poet (recitation, voice)
November, 11 Friday State Institute for Art Studies (Kozitsky pereulok, 5) 10:00–13:00 Morning meeting Moderator: Sergei Birukov Vadim Maksimov Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Theatricality of dadaism and dada theatre. Natalya Sidorova Independent Researcher (Moscow, Russia) The construction of a form and its communicative meaning in the Kurt Schwitters works Régis Gayraud The Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-Ferrand, France) Mikhail Larionov and DADA in Paris 11:00–11:20 Q & A 11:20–11:40 Coffee break Olga Sokolova The Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) HeiDADAgger Galina Shikina Glinka Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatoire (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) Dada and its musical heritage Konstantin Dudakov-Kashuro Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) Constructivism in the theory and the practice of Raoul Hausmann 12:40–13:00 Q & A 13:00–14:00 Pause 14:00-18:00 Afternoon meeting Moderator: Andrei Rossomakhin Sergei Birukov Martin Luther University (Halle, Germany) DADA forever. Russian DADA precedence and following reception Tomáš Glanc University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland) Early Russian reception of Dadaism. Presentation of the new anthology of texts from 1920s focused on this topic Vera Terekhina The Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) Olga Rozanova poetry as a phenomenon of proto-Dadaism Gabriella Elina Imposti University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy) Khlebnikov Dadaist 15:20–15:40 Q & A 15:40–16:00 Coffee break Aleksandr Parnis Russian Centre PEN International (Moscow, Russia) Preliminaries to the theme "Khlebnikov and Dadaism" Evgenya Inshakova The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovskii (Moscow, Russia) Boris Zemenkov. Poet, artist, historian Petr Kazarnovsky Independent researcher (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Sergei Sharshun in DADA and Dadaism Alexei Kurbanovsky The State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia) Collage, Dadaism and Russian Formalism Gudrun Lehmann Artist (Düsseldorf, Germany) DADA Berlin and the influences of Russian avant-garde

Yuri Orlizky Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia) Rhythmic Features of Russian Dada Prose (Zdanevich and Sharshun). 18:00-18:20 Q & A 19:30 Alexander Scriabin Memorial Museum (Bolshoy Nikolopeskovsky Pereulok, 11) Performance "Time is running" Vladimir Tarasov – percussion Larry Ochs – saxophones Mark Dresser – contrabass Lev Rubinstein – poet November, 12 Saturday State Institute for Art Studies (Kozitsky pereulok, 5) 10:00-12:40 Morning meeting Moderator: Alexei Kurbanovsky Evgeny Arenzon The Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) Delayed DADA (For the OBERIU History) Margarita Masterkova-Tupitsyn Independent researcher, Curator (New York, USA) Dada on Miasnitskaia Street Natalya Zlidneva The Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) Document in the paintings of the 20's: problem of the (non)established surrealism 11:00–11:20 Q & A 11:20–11:40 Coffee break Aleksandr Yakimovich The Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts (Moscow, Russia) A Criminal Outrageous in Art and Literature. About Russian Parallels to Dadaism Tatiana Nikolskaya The Library of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia) DADA-elements in the circles of Leningrad bohemia during the Soviet "Thaw" ("philological school", "arsehole movement")

12:20-12:40 Q & A 12:40-13:20 Pause 13:20-16:00 Afternoon meeting