Comments on: blacktown art gallery censorship schermozzle http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/blacktown-art-gallery-censorship-schermozzle/ /// art / exchange / events / re-enactment /// Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:33:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: VEZ http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/blacktown-art-gallery-censorship-schermozzle/#comment-112 VEZ Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:24:02 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/blacktown-art-gallery-censorship-schermozzle/#comment-112 this is a classic case art censorship, and as a art industry issue,it will be used constantly as an example of it. especially in the up coming VCE studio art (yr 12) exams to be written this wednesday 9th of november, which (the exams) often ask of an analysis and example of such art industrie issues, and this one will be quoted in a large proportion of those. good luck Zanny Begg, your unfortionate brush with art censorship will be quoted and studied by many. this is a classic case art censorship, and as a art industry issue,it will be used constantly as an example of it. especially in the up coming VCE studio art (yr 12) exams to be written this wednesday 9th of november, which (the exams) often ask of an analysis and example of such art industrie issues, and this one will be quoted in a large proportion of those. good luck Zanny Begg, your unfortionate brush with art censorship will be quoted and studied by many.

]]> By: Alan http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/blacktown-art-gallery-censorship-schermozzle/#comment-111 Alan Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:23:15 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/blacktown-art-gallery-censorship-schermozzle/#comment-111 Having just read and considered the Blacktown Arts Censorship shemozzle article I have difficulty understanding the implications. I have been reading up on this because the 2005 series of 6 exhibitions for Western Front opens this week and I did not see the 2004 works. I note that very few of the original artists from"out of gallery" are included. I just spoke to Ruark and he didn't know it was on and did not have an invitation. I have just read Adnan's catalogue essays and I find them interesting and thought provoking. That someone coming from those sentiments could willingly or intentionally do the wrong thing by the artists seems to me unlikley. I would like to posit a few hypotheticals: 1/ someone in the team did not run the permission through council and that might not have been the curator 2/ this was done but permission did not come through and this fact was overlooked 3/ there was a communication failure between artist and curator to check that she could proceed to install the work 4/ the artist did not make clear the method and location of installation because she wanted it to be a true geurilla event 5/ the curator wanted it to be a true guerilla event 6/ the curator has been threatened by council or has withdrawn to secure the possibility of the evnt continuing into 2005 7/ the approval was given and over-ridden due to the response 8/ Adnan was trying to avoid endagering the rest of the the project etc..... I think that it is unlikely that Adnan did not wish to see the 2005 stage of this project realised. He sounds like he was committed to it. The political dimension and freedom of speech and image issue is significant. But the artists herself claims the artwork was condoned by Council. Perhaps Council itself was afraid of losing face. The text on the image in the callaogue reads: "Checkpoint for weapons of mass distraction" it is thus taking the situation as a farce and should not have been read specifically as anti-Iraq war, but as anti-propagandist, anti-alarmist, anti-the Govt. spin. regards Alan Having just read and considered the Blacktown Arts Censorship shemozzle article I have difficulty understanding the implications. I have been reading up on this because the 2005 series of 6 exhibitions for Western Front opens this week and I did not see the 2004 works. I note that very few of the original artists from”out of gallery” are included. I just spoke to Ruark and he didn’t know it was on and did not have an invitation. I have just read Adnan’s catalogue essays and I find them interesting and thought provoking. That someone coming from those sentiments could willingly or intentionally do the wrong thing by the artists seems to me unlikley. I would like to posit a few hypotheticals:

1/ someone in the team did not run the permission through council and that might not have been the curator 2/ this was done but permission did not come through and this fact was overlooked 3/ there was a communication failure between artist and curator to check that she could proceed to install the work 4/ the artist did not make clear the method and location of installation because she wanted it to be a true geurilla event 5/ the curator wanted it to be a true guerilla event 6/ the curator has been threatened by council or has withdrawn to secure the possibility of the evnt continuing into 2005 7/ the approval was given and over-ridden due to the response 8/ Adnan was trying to avoid endagering the rest of the the project

etc…..

I think that it is unlikely that Adnan did not wish to see the 2005 stage of this project realised. He sounds like he was committed to it. The political dimension and freedom of speech and image issue is significant. But the artists herself claims the artwork was condoned by Council. Perhaps Council itself was afraid of losing face. The text on the image in the callaogue reads: “Checkpoint for weapons of mass distraction” it is thus taking the situation as a farce and should not have been read specifically as anti-Iraq war, but as anti-propagandist, anti-alarmist, anti-the Govt. spin.

regards

Alan

]]> By: Art Life http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/blacktown-art-gallery-censorship-schermozzle/#comment-110 Art Life Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:20:01 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/blacktown-art-gallery-censorship-schermozzle/#comment-110 Good on you Bilateral for covering this story properly. The Art Life Good on you Bilateral for covering this story properly.

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