This article explores the political and aesthetic role of Black Dada in the practice of the American artist Adam Pendleton (b.1984). Pendleton’s concept of Black Dada informs his writings as well as his large-scale paintings, collages and installations. It is, he argues, ‘a way to talk about the future while talking about the past’. [...]
This paper was accepted for publication in the Burlington Contemporary and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.31452/bcj7.dada.brown