Love this quote from Guillermo Gomez Pena:
…Do performance artists have a job? Our job may be to open up a utopian/dystopian space, a demilitarised zone in which radical behaviour and progressive thought are allowed to the place event if
Tag: free speech
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 4
I’ve been working with the Live Art Archive in Bristol this week. I’m sat in the reading room now, writing this, sitting with the many possible directions this research could go in. Each scribbled note is an immanence of other …
I’m being cancelled! Update 3
Came across this article about the cancellation of the comedian Jerry Sadowitz’s show at the Fringe. (This was a real cancellation as opposed to a tweet storm or protest).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/16/jerry-sadowitz-cancelled-show-comedy-free-speech?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
As ever, language is the fault line: What words are …
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 2
The recent attack on Salman Rushdie reminds us that the debates on limits of freedom of expression are not new. Or rather, the form these debates take has been a feature of our culture for several decades (defending freedom of …
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 1
I’ve spent most of today reading How Woke Won by Joanna Williams. Williams is a core member of the RCP/Spiked! crew that have done a lot to push the war on woke into public consciousness. I’m starting to think my …