Max rada dada: Sideshow Banners, Polaroids & Objects

 

Max rada dada’s one-person exhibition Max rada dada: Sideshow Banners, Polaroids & Objects presents a body of work creation between 2000 and 2007, a period when the artist first began touring the country with a one-man theatrical art entitled “Unexceptional Tricks”. Though best known for his large format Polaroid photographs, rada dada is not new to theater, having worked with the Ting-Theatre of Mistakes in London before obtaining his MFA in Sculpture and Performance from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Rada dada will perform “Unexceptional Tricks” at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art on September 28. Much of his photographic production prior to the sideshow works involved collaborations with his subjects such as the Reenactment of Early Childhood Play in which adults are asked to write about, dress up as, and be photographed acting out their favorite childhood games. Rada dada’s unique form of burlesque which isolates and focuses on seemingly nonsensical acts and interchanges that are then combined with narrative grew out of his experience as a visual artist. By the same token, many of the sideshow works transpose temporal experiences usually associated with theater into visual terms and often include discourse and text. The photographs, paintings, assemblage sculpture, and objects on exhibit at Green Hill all may be interpreted through their relationship to theatrical language.

Curated by Edie Carpenter

 

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