The sessions have been devised by participants in the group, including Eddie Bolger, Lucy Burns, Alessandro Cabiati, Rosa Chrystie-Lowe, Iris Colomb, Jo Cottrell, Dan Eltringham, Mischa Foster Poole, Alex Grafen, Toby Harris, Evi Heinz, Andrew Hodgson, Paul Ingram, Robyn Jakeman, Rebekka Jolley, Joseph LaBine, Sean Langford, Bertrand Marilier, Matt Martin, Michał Piotrowski, Mick Sheldon, Abigael van Alst, Christopher Webb and Christopher Wells.


Berlin Sessions Spring/Summer 2024
16 July 2024 Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße
11 June 2024 Fernand Divoire's Literary Strategy
Excerpt from Introduction à l'Étude de la Stratégie littéraire
14 May 2024 Else Lasker Schüler: Poetry and Visual Art
'Weltflucht', musical score for 'Weltflucht' by Herwarth Walden, 'Elbanaff', 'Heimweh', 'Asser Mëmëd Schalomein Jussuf', 'Thebes with Jussuf', 'Selbstporträt', cover of Ich räume auf!
Online Sessions 2020/21
15 December 2021 The Chandos Letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
'Ein Brief', 'The Letter of Lord Chandos'
17 November 2021 Blaise Cendrars
'Profound Today', 'The ABCs of Cinema', ‘The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame’, 'On the Parturition of Colors', 'On Projection Powder'
'Cosmic Legends' from The African Saga, 'La Création du monde' - scenario by Cendrars, designs by Léger
Fernand Léger, illustrations for ‘The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame’
13 October 2021 George Mackay Brown
Excerpt from Magnus:'The Killing', 'A Surplus of Books'
Magnus book cover design, two portraits of Brown
14 July 2021 Leonora Carrington
'As They Rode Along the Edge', 'The Sisters', 'The Three Hunters'
The Meal of Lord Candlestick, Self-Portrait: Inn of the Dawn Horse, The Temptation of St Anthony, The Giantess, Bird Bath, Ab Eo Quod
16 June 2021 Tom Raworth: Avant-Gardes in/against Translation
Philip Terry, 'Discovering Raworth'
Gabriela Jauregui, 'Tom Raworth: Introducción y traducciones'
Emily Apter, ‘Twenty Theses on Translation'
Nicanor Parra/Tom Raworth, 'La montaña rusa/The Roller-Coaster'
Vicente Huibdobro/Tom Raworth, 'En la tumba de un poeta/On the Tomb of a Poet', 'Nipona/Nipponese', 'Alerta/The Alert', 'Apaga tu pipa/Put Out Your Pipe', 'Emigrante a América/Emigrant to America', 'Affiche/Poster', 'Balada de lo que no vuelve/Ballad of That Which Does Not Return'
Tom Raworth (trans.), Save Your Eyes, 'From the Hungarian (A Sequence of Eighteen Poems)'
19 May 2021 Kazimir Malevich
7 April 2021 Franz Kafka, 'Josephine the Singer'
17 February 2021 Strings Attached: The Arts Council of Great Britain and Post-War British Fiction
Raymond Williams, ‘Politics and Policies: The Case of the Arts Council’
Nigel Abercrombie, ‘Key Year’
Cecil Day-Lewis, ‘First Aid for Writers’
Ian Hamilton, ‘The Panel Game’
Anthony Burgess, ‘Letter to the Editor’
20 January 2021 Gertrude Stein and Literary Cubist Theatre
Extracts from Tender Buttons, extract from 'The Good Anna', What Happened, He Said It, White Wines
16 December 2020 Richard Bruce Nugent and Queer Modernism
'Smoke, Lillies and Jade', 'Narcissus', 'Bastard Song'
18 November 2020 Fire!! (1926)
'Foreword'
Helene Johnson, 'A Southern Road'
Langston Hughes, 'Elevator Boy'
Wallace Thurman, 'Cordelia the Crude'
Richard Bruce Nugent, drawings and excerpt from 'Smoke, Lillies and Jade'
Spring 2019/20
17 March 2020 Postponed.
3 March 2020 Cancelled in solidarity with industrial action.
18 February 2020 Leo Koenig and London's Yiddish Avant-Garde
Leo Koenig, 'Renaissance-Motifs'
David Bomberg, 'Winter Night'
Ralph Hodgson, 'Time, You Old Gypsy Man'
Rudyard Kipling, 'Mother o' Mine'
Images from Renesans of artworks by Mark Gertler, Bernard Meninsky, Marc Chagall and others
4 February 2020 Sex(y) Dolls: Lotte Pritzel and Hermine Moos
Photographs of various wax dolls by Lotte Pritzel
Die Pritzelpuppe (1923, dir. Ulrich Kayser)
Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Dolls'
Photographs of the Alma doll by Hermine Moos
Oskar Kokoschka, Painter with Doll, Woman in Blue
21 January 2020 Fluxus
George Maciunas, 'Fluxus Manifesto'
Scores, films and records of performances by George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Chieko Shiomi and others
Autumn 2019/20
3 December 2019 Niall Montgomery, Father of Modern Irish Sound Poetry
Samuel Beckett, 'Ooftish'
Niall Montgomery, 'Swing Tides of March This Time Darling', 'London Transport', 'Love's Old Suite', 'Poor Silly Bitch'
Friedrich Hölderlin, 'Hälfte des Lebens' and 'An Unfaithful Version', trans. by Niall Montgomery
19 November 2019 Mina Loy, Insel
5 November 2019 Pataphysics
Excerpts from Alastair Brotchie, Stanley Chapman, Thieri Foulc & Kevin Jackson (eds.), ’Pataphysics: Definitions and Citations
22 October 2019 Tarsila do Amaral
Tarsila do Amaral, Retrato de Oswald de Andrade, A Cuca, A Negra, Abaporu, Antropofagia, Auto retrato, Calmaria II, Carnaval em Madureira, Cidade (a rua), E.F.C.B., Morro da Favela, O lago, O sono, Opérarios, São Paulo, Segunda classe, Urutu
Oswald de Andrade, 'Cannibalist Manifesto'
8 October 2019 New Objectivity
Aenne Biermann, Blick aus meinem Atelierfenster, Dame mit Monokel, Gänse hinter Gatter
Albert Renger-Patzsch, Erzgebirge Holzschnitzer, Hörder Verein (Dortmund), Magneteisenerz (Pfitsch, Tirol)
Albert Steiner, Liegehalle der Chirurgischen Klinik der Zürcher Heilstätte (Davos), Untitled, Winterlandschaft bei Inner-Arosa
August Sander, Blind Girls, Jobless, Peddler
Erich Retzlaff, Die von der Scholle, Die von der Scholle 2, Menschen am Werk
Jakob Tuggener, Laufmädchen in der Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Power Station La Grande Dixence, Tornos Machine-tool Factory, Moutier
Walter Benjamin, 'Little History of Photography'
Summer 2018/19
2 July 2019 Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
18 June 2019 Ernst Herbeck, Everyone Has a Mouth
4 June 2019 Nicolás Guillén, El Diario que a diaro (The Daily Daily)
21 May 2019 Dorothy Shakespeare: Vorticist
Drawing from Etruscan Gate, cover design for Pound's Ripostes and Catholic Anthology, designs from BLAST, Untitled (Abstract Landscape), Untitled, Untitled (Abstract Composition), Composition in Blue and Black, designs from Elimus
7 May 2019 Anti-manifestos: How comic periodicals replied to the avant-garde manifesto
Opening statements from Razzle (1932), editorial statement from Blather(1934), Eugène Jolas, 'Twilight of the Horizontal Age'
Spring 2018/19
19 March 2019 Black Mountain Pedagogy
Anni Albers, 'Work With Material', 'One Aspect of Art Work'
Charles Olson, 'Projective Verse', 'Introductory Statement for Black Mountain College Catalogue', 'A Draft of a Plan for the College'
5 March 2019 Hannah Höch, Anxiety, Bourgeois Bridal Couple (Quarrel), Cube, Cut With the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, Degenerate, Dolls, Flight, Heads of State, Journey into the Unknown, Little Sun, Mother (From an Ethnographic Museum), On the Nile II, The Fence, The Sweet One (From an Ethnographic Museum)
19 February 2019 Georges Perec, The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
5 February 2019 Two Modernist Long Poems
Hope Mirrlees, Paris
Nancy Cunard, Parallax
22 January 2019 Killing John Bull With Art: Frida Strindberg's Cabaret Theatre Club
'Aims and Programme of the Cabaret Theatre Club', 'The Press and the Cabaret Club'
Wyndham Lewis, 'Kill John Bull With Art'
Autumn 2018/19
4 December 2018 Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard
20 November 2018 Scapigliatura and Italian Futurism
Libero Altomare, 'Sinfonia luminosa', 'La morte', 'Ricami d'ombra'
Mario Bètuda, 'Voluttà'
Arrigo Boito, 'Literary Polemic', 'A Giovanni Camerana', 'Lezione d'anatomia', 'Case nuove'
Giovanni Camerana, 'A Emilio Praga'
G. Manzella-Frontini, 'Sala anatomica'
F.T. Marinetti, 'Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature', La battaglia di Tripoli
Armando Mazza, 'A Venezia'
Emilio Praga, 'Seraphina', 'A un feto', 'Dama elegante', 'Verità', 'Orgia', 'La libreria'
6 November 2018 Helen Saunders, the New Freewoman and the Breaking of Binary Bonds
Helen Saunders, Female Figures Imprisoned, Hammock
Dora Marsden, 'Views and Comments'
Henri Bergson, 'An Introduction to Metaphysics'
23 October 2018 Hugh MacDiarmid, Three Hymns to Lenin
9 October 2018 The Ballets Russes
Sergei Diaghilev, 'Eternal Conflict', 'Our Supposed Decline'
The Rite of Spring, Parade
Summer 2017/18
26 June 2018 Jackson Mac Low,'Asymmetries', 'Drawing Asymmetries', 'Thanks' 'The Text'
12 June 2018 Modifications and disfigurations
Asger Jorn, Choux, Brotherhood Above All, The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up, The Disquieting Duck, Temptation, Mater Profana, Modification with Breton Wife, Paris by Night
29 May 2018 Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
15 May 2018 Creationism
Vicente Huidobro, Kaleidoscope, Midnight, 6 O’Clock – October, 'Non Serviam', 'Warning to Tourists', 'We Must Create'
1 May 2018 Wyndham Lewis, Enemy of the Stars
Spring 2017/18
13 March 2018 Cancelled in solidarity with industrial action.
27 February 2018 Cancelled in solidarity with industrial action.
12 February 2018 John Rodker (trans.), The Lay of Maldoror
30 January 2018 Dmitri Shostakovich, Anti-Formalist Rayok
16 January 2018 Readymades
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Cathedral, Enduring Ornament, God, Limbswish, Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp, Belle Haleine Eau de Voilette (with Man Ray), Bicycle Wheel, Fountain, LHOOQ, Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?
Autumn 2017/18
5 December 2017 A Nature of Morbid Dysmorphia: Modern Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness
Carl Julius Salomonsen, New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness, A Nature of Morbid Dysmorphia – Bolshevik Art, Dada Poetry and Speaking in Tongues
Leo Swane et al., 'Modern Art and Mental Illness, a response to Professor Salomonsen'
21 November 2017 Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi, 'On the Futility of the "Theatrical" in the Theatre'
7 November 2017 Surrealist photography
Claude Cahun, I Extend My Arms, Self-Portrait(from the series 'I am in Training Don’t Kiss Me') , Self-Portrait (naked, on sand with coiled seaweed), Studies for a Keepsake, What Do You Want From Me?
Lee Miller, Lee Miller (with Man Ray), Nude Bent Forwards, Tania Ramm and Bell Jar, Variant on Hommage à DAF de Sade, Untitled (exploding hand), Untitled (severed breast from radical mastectomy)
24 October 2017 Early avant-garde activity in London
F.T. Marinetti, 'Futurist Speech to the English'
Wyndham Lewis, 'Our Wild Body', 'Futurism, Magic and Life'
10 October 2017 Zenitism and Anti-Dada – avant-garde currents in Yugoslavia
Ljubomir Micić, 'Zenitist Manifesto'
Virgil Poljanksi, 'Dada Antidada'
Summer 2016/17
13 Jun 2017 Late Loy
Mina Loy, 'Photo After Pogrom', 'Chiffon Velours', Communal Cot
30 May 2017 BYOT – Bring Your Own Text
Various
16 May 2017 Avant-garde responses to the rise of the Nazis
Bertolt Brecht, War Primer
John Heartfield, A New Man – Master of the New World, Adolf, The Superman – He Swallows Gold and Spouts Junk, Crisis-Proof Cattle, German Acorns 1933, Goering – The Executioner of the Third Reich, Hurrah, the Butter is Finished!, Normalisation, O Christmas Tree, On the Crisis Party Conference of the SPD, The Real Meaning of the Hitler Salute, War and Corpses – The Last Hope of the Rich
2 May 2017 Berlin Dada – Der Dada magazine
Alexis, 'A Visit to the Dada Cabaret'
Johannes Baader, 'The New Period Begins with the Death of the Superdada', 'Advertisement for Myself'
Spring 2016/17
21 March 2017 Female Futurists
Valentine de Saint-Point, 'Manifesto of the Futurist Woman'
Rosa Rosà, 'Women of the Near Future'
Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, 'Futurist Sensibility', 'Letter from Astra/Astra’s Diary'
7 March 2017 Faces
Mina Loy, 'Auto-Facial Construction'
Sophie Taeuber, Dada Head
Hannah Höch, The Beautiful Girl, English Dancer, The Little P
21 February 2017 Dublin avant-gardes
A.J. Leventhal/L.K. Emery, The Klaxon,
H. Stuart, Cecil Salkeld, 'To All Writers and Artists'
7 February 2017 Bertolt Brecht, Lindbergh's Flight
Autumn 2016/17
8 December 2016 Karl Kraus,'In These Dark Times', 'Preface' to The Last Days of Mankind, 'The Last Night'
24 November 2016 Italian Futurism
F.T. Marinetti, 'Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature', 'Destruction of Suntax – Radio Imagination – Words-in-Freedom', 'Bombardment'
Ardengo Soffici, 'Café'
10 November 2016 Tristan Tzara, 'Cosmic Realities Vanilla Tobacco Dawnings'
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, 'Subjoyride'
27 October 2016 Experimental drama
John Rodker, 'To SER'
Arnaldo Corradini and Emilio Settimelli, 'From the Window'
Mina Loy, 'Cittàbapini'
20 October 2016 Giacomo Balla, 'Futurist Manifesto of Men's Clothing'
Céline Arnauld, 'Dada Parasol'
Oswald de Andrade, 'Cannibalist Manifesto'