Representing Dada: "The Pattern that Connects Is a Meta-Pattern": Dada’s Ongoing Challenges to Museum Practices

Summary: Representing Dada Saturday, September 9, 2006 To mark the close of the international Dada exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA hosted a day-long symposium to consider issues involved in representing Dada through texts, images, and objects, with a particular focus on the semantics of display. A distinguished group of scholars discussed landmark Dada exhibitions and past publications, with the aim of addressing how Dada has been defined historically, geographically, and conceptually. "The Pattern that Connects Is a Meta-Pattern": Dada’s Ongoing Challenges to Museum Practices Tobia Bezzola, Curator, Kunsthaus Zurich