Category: <span>Artistic Freedom</span>

Index launches new advisory service for arts organisations

Arts Censorship Support Service will provide assistance to colleagues in the cultural sector facing issues of censorship.

Omar El-Khairy and Nadia Latif / Homegrown

by Julia Farrington | 15 May 19

Homegrown is a piece commissioned by the National Youth Theatre (NYT) investigating the motivation behind radicalisation of young Muslims in schools.

Out of Joint / Rita Sue and Bob Too by Andrea Dunbar

by Julia Farrington | 15 May 19

Andrea Dunbar’s play Rita Sue and Bob Too was commissioned by Max Stafford-Clarke, then artistic director of Royal Court, in 1982.

Music Theatre Wales / The Golden Dragon

by Julia Farrington | 15 May 19

Although MTW’s production of The Golden Dragon had received positive reviews in the press, some had expressed concerns that all five of the performers were white, despite the fact they were playing various Asian characters.

Eric Gill / The Body

by Julia Farrington | 15 May 19

The case study of the exhibition Eric Gill: The Body at Ditchling Museum of Arts & Crafts is different from the others in this section. In all the other cases, Index on Censorship got involved because artwork had been removed or cancelled, but in this case we were brought in at the early stage of the museum’s planning of an exhibition that was potentially divisive and controversial.

Brett Bailey / Exhibit B

by Julia Farrington | 15 May 19

The Barbican’s publicity material described Exhibit B as: “a human installation that charts the colonial histories of various European countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when scientists formulated pseudo-scientific racial theories that continue to warp perceptions with horrific consequences.”

Eric Gill / The Body: Managing risk

by Index on Censorship | 15 May 19

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Talking - The curator and I had always been happy having 1-1 conversations with people about the subject, but the...

Mimsy / Isis Threaten Sylvania

by Julia Farrington | 15 May 19

‘Isis Threaten Sylvania’ is a satirical series of light box tableaux, using the children’s toys ‘Sylvanian Families’.

Eric Gill / The Body: Terminology

by Index on Censorship | 07 May 19

One of the issues addressed in the exhibition Eric Gill: The Body is the sexual abuse of his teenage daughters Betty and Petra. The way in which we...