seditious exhibitions

there's an exhibition that's just wound up at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (see: http://www.casulapowerhouse.com/pages/current.php), which was a response to the new additions to the federal government's anti-terrorism laws. The modification of these laws have many artists concerned - and rightly so - about the potential impact on freedom of speech and how this relates to their artworks.

as part of metasense, i submitted a work based around some graffiti found on a footpath in redfern...

dissenting voices

As most of you who keep an ear/eye on the media, the review of the Sedition Laws looks positively terror-fying for artists...

Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are one of the few things that we consider our right as Australians living in Australia in the current day and age. (Perhaps we just take it for granted...) As creators, artists, musicians, media makers (the list is long) - our work embodies our beliefs, and so perhaps we are first in the "firing line", should these restrictive laws come into effect.

The current situation that has emerged over the past two weeks makes the ground we stand on seem infintely less stable, and crumbling at an exponential rate...

For more information take a look at:

http://www.ozsedition.blogspot.com/

and more info at:
http://www.newmatilda.com.au

and the independent media sites, such as: http://www.indymedia.org.au/