Global Art • 2001 • I
The winter of 2001/2002 sees illegal occupation of the now-rundown Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich by dissident artists protesting its planned closure by the city. The artists, organised by Mark Divo, describe themselves as new-Dadaists. Over a period of three months, thousands of people from around Zürich take part in the experiment, which includes multi-disciplinary art events and performances.Police evict the occupants in April 2002.
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.