Local Context • 2008
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Local Context • 2008
Rising xenophobia within impoverished South African communities reaches a boiling point in May. A series of violent riots erupt around the country and thousands of African foreign nationals are forced to flee their homes.
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.