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MONDAY 21 OCTOBER
The Art
of Dissent - Dissent and Democracy
9.00am,
Monday 21 October: The Famous Spiegeltent
- What role does Dissent play
in a democracy?
- How can artists use their
skills and vision to move people to engage with issues that confront
society?
- Is public dissent being
silenced?
- How much are 'celebrations
of culture' about dissenting voices?
- Dissent for dissent's sake,
or dissent to create new visions?
Moderator - Guy RUNDLE,
co-editor or Arena
Magazine, a publication of analysis of dissent and culture from
a left perspective. Guy's focus is based on rethinking what it
is to be left (that the socialist left position is irrecoverable)
and how to engage audiences to rethink dissent. His writing and
the journal have a strong engagement with cultural dissent.
Panel
- Aizura HANKIN, former editor of Voiceworks, a
journal of young people's writing, Aizura is also a founding
member of Space Station Media Lab, a collective involved in a
campaigns ranging from East Timor to Woomera and working with
Indigenous communities.
- Deborah KELLY, Visual artist and instigator of
Boat-people.org, organising projection events including action
to project images of tall ships onto the Sydney Opera house to
highlight the hypocrisy of migration policies. She recently curated
Border Panic, a show of artists' responses to the asylum seeker
debate at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
- Margo KINGSTON, a journalist with a strong and
vocal position on evolving trends and issues in Australian culture,
currently writing for the Sydney Morning Herald.
- Mike PARR, performance artist and print-maker
with work in major Australian galleries, perhaps more well-known
for sewing his lips together as protest performance art
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