This article attempts to describe the presence of elements of the Dadaist doctrine in
programme statements and manifestos of the New Wave and creators of alternative
culture of the 1980s. The author, by referring to the concept of a Dadaist link between
literary modernism and postmodernism formulated by Richard Sheppard, points
to two basic transmission belts of the Dadaist doctrine: counterculture and performance art. These two directions of assimilation of the Dadaist tradition converge
in the analysed programme speeches of the Gdańsk-based alternative group Totart.
keywords in Polish:
awangarda, neoawangarda, kontrkultura, polska poezja