Global Context • 2010 • II
Tunisian national Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself alight after being fined and humiliated by a policewoman for selling vegetables from a cart without a license. Outrage over the event brings dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year rule to an end in just 10 days after Bouazizi's death in hospital.
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.