Local Art • 1970 • II
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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Local Art • 1970 • II
Responding tacitly to political third forces in South Africa, Battiss establishes the International Society for Invisible People by painting his studio door. 'International' is later replaced with 'Cosmic', to avoid an association with 'nationhood'.
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.