presenting...
How Obscene Is This!
The Decency Clause Turns 20
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Decency, Respect and
Community Standards:
What Offends Us Now?
a discussion on controversial and banned art
Wednesday, 9/22 at the New School's Tishman Auditorium
You are invited to join the conversation!
This
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 6:30 to 8:30 pm
The New
School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12 Street, New
York
FREE
ADMISSION -
Seating is limited and general admission.
Participants
include:
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Wafaa
Bilal, Iraqi American artist, whose installation Virtual
Jihadi was closed down by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
New York;
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Holly
Hughes, performance artist, one of the NEA4;
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Trevor
Paglen, social scientist, artist, writer and
provocateur;
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Carolee
Schneemann, pioneering feminist filmmaker and visual artist
who has battled censorship for the last fifty years.
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Moderated by Laura Flanders of GritTV
Some of these
artists are associated with the culture wars of the 90's, others
were more recently censored during the War on Terrorism. Have
attitudes towards representations of nudity and sexuality changed
since the 1990s culture wars? Are religious topics still as
inflammatory? What is considered offensive or inappropriate under
our current political climate?
Hope to see you there,
Teresa Koberstein
National Coalition Against Censorship
ps. For those of
you who are unable to attend or are out of the NYC area, check out
our online video series surrounding the program
here, and look for posted video footage of the panels after the
events.
RSVP: http://ncac.eventbrite.com/
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The Decency Clause Turns 20
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