Global Art • 1963 • III
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Global Art • 1963 • III
According to a declaration by Fluxus artist Robert Filliou, art celebrates its birthday on the 16th of January 1963 – before this day, Filliou states, there was no art, but on this day, it was 1 000 000 years old, and it all started when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water.
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.