“On the question of narrowing down the focus of the exhibition: Dada, as far as I understand it, is not so much a thing as a kind of catchment area to which a lot of things were drawn. It was completely heterodox, and then shot out in a zillion other directions. In the last couple of years there’s been a revision of global conceptualism, for instance, and you can't really understand it without going back to Dada.”
– Kathryn Smith

Kathryn Smith and Roger van Wyk reflect on researching and curating Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at a colloquium in Cape Town with invited practitioners held in anticipation of the show.