Local Art • 1972 • I
Kevin Atkinson is a founding member of Space Gallery, Cape Town, and appointed as lecturer in Design at Michaelis, UCT. He exhibits at Edinburgh Festival with Richard Demarco Gallery. He later visits Documenta in Kassel, Germany, and meets Joseph Beuys, who he describes as "more of a showman than a shaman." He has influential discussions with artist and theorist Jack Burnham, developer of 'systems art'.
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.