Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was detained on 03 April 2011 by the authorities at Beijing Capital Airport preparing to board a scheduled flight to Hong Kong. He has yet to be charged and the state has not yet confirmed his whereabouts. A major survey show of his work has opened at London’s Lisson Gallery joining […]
Here’s a copy of a press release issued by the Frontline Club‘s founder Vaughan Smith. “I attended court today to offer my support for Julian Assange of Wikileaks on a point of principle. “In the face of a concerted attempt to shut him down and after a decade since 9/11 that has been characterised by […]
…for the Index on Censorship. They recently had Sir Tom Stoppard and the Belarus Free Theatre on at the Free Word Centre. Nick Cohen wrote a smashing review in the Guardian about how to make a drama out of a crisis. Belarus is possibly Europe’s last dictatorship where freedom of speech and expression are, to […]
For Sale. One Space Hijackers Tank. Last seen 01 April 2009 – at London’s G20 demonstrations – steaming down Bishopsgate with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries blaring from its soundsystem. 11 careful owners all registered on the DNA database. Many of us popped our arrest cherry that day. Our mobile oppression palace was bedecked in […]
A new show called Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens at Tate Modern this week. It features images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of the subject. It is the history of spying with a lens in just over 250 photographs. But there’s an elephant in the museum. As you move from room […]
An exhibition intended to open discussion about surveillance and the gaze, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens this week at London’s Tate Modern. The show explores themes of eroticism, celebrity, violence and security in the world around us. Over 250 works have been selected by Tate Modern in conjunction with the San Francisco Museum […]
