~ Conversation Portrait by Flash Rosenberg ~
Artist-in-Residence, LIVE from the New York Public Library
~ ideas drawn as they are discussed in real time ~
Andrei Codrescu, Henry Alford and Mark Twain
Interview Each Other
April 13, 2009 • LIVE from the New York Public Library
with Max Rada dada performing
and live, real-time, projected drawings by Flash Rosenberg
introduced by Paul Holdengräber (as Mark Twain)
video editor: Sarah Lohman
flashrosenberg@gmail.com
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An evening of gentlemen bearing questions and channeling the great books that will answer them! Also, elder aerialist sages, minstrels, and the Dance of the Seven Veils! Tristan Tzara and Charlie Chaplin will be in the audience!

Andrei Codrescu’s new book, The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, will be Codrescu's chief oracle in this orgy of bibliomania. Codrescu was introduced to Mark Twain by Nikola Tesla in the novel Messia@.

Is old age a form of Dada expression? At what point does "eccentric" turn into "Dadaist?" Recounting examples of odd behavior from Henry Alford’s new book, How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth), characters like Eugene Loh, a retired aerospace engineer who uses an emptied Frosted Flakes box as his briefcase, they will talk about how old age can be a wonderful time to become Dada. Paul Holdengräber will make a cameo appearance as Mark Twain.

Projected REAL TIME conversation drawing by Flash Rosenberg and "Unexceptional Tricks" by Max rada dada