Dada to Surrealism: Continuity  Speaker: Martin Gaughan, writer and former Head of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff .This talk traces some of the issues which informed work in the different Dada centres, establishing their origins and concerns, and considering how the relationships between the different moments can be characterized. Martin Gaughan explores the sense in which Dada, as developed in the centres of Zürich, Cologne and New York, can be seen as a precursor to Surrealism, as elaborated in Paris under the direction of Andre Breton. However Berlin Dada had a different, more politically engaged, set of interests.Further ReadingPaul Wood, 'The revolutionary avant-gardes: Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism', P. Wood ed., The Challenge of the Avant-Garde, Yale University Press, 1999, pp.226-5Gail Day, 'Art, love and social emancipation: on the concept "avant-garde" and the interwar avant-gardes', S. Edwards & P. Wood eds, Art of the Avant-Gardes, Yale University Press, 2004, pp.307-337.Martin Gaughan, 'Narrating the Dada game plan', S. Edwards & P. Wood eds, Art of the Avant-Gardes, Yale University Press, 2004, pp.339-35Steve Edwards, 'Profane Illumination': photography and photomontage in the USSR and Germany', S. Edwards & P. Wood eds, Art of the Avant-Gardes, Yale University Press, 2004, pp.397-425Fiona Barber, 'Surrealism 1924-1929', S. Edwards & P. Wood eds, Art of the Avant-Gardes, Yale University Press, 2004, pp.397-425