Local Art • 1985 • I
Gallant House, a communal, multiracial, squat/studio complex, is established by artist and filmmaker Robert Weinek and musician Guillaume Rossouw in a vacant clothing factory in President Street, Johannesburg. Weinek and artist Wayne Barker lease the second floor for visual arts, while the third floor hosts musicians, including resident Allan Kwela. The space closes in 1986.
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.