Local Art • 1985 • II
Johannesburg Art Gallery hosts Video Art, by all accounts the first-ever museum exhibition of (international) video art in South Africa. Two public lectures are delivered by Ivor Powell (Performance and Subversion) and Nina Romm (Imaging a new future: contemporary Video and Performance art as social catalyst).
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.