Global Art • 1920 • I
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Global Art • 1920 • I
Erwin Piscator opens the Proletarian Theatre in Berlin. Pioneering the use of mechanised sets and films in his dramatic productions, Piscator envisions an agitational, propagandistic theatre whose sociopolitical context supersedes emotive content or aesthetics.
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.