Breaking Silence: Censorship and Self-Censorship
Dash Arts Podcast
English - May 19, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 65.7 MBArts culture europe brexit artists theatre music live music london multicultural international Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The fourth and final episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking Silence, explores issues of censorship, self-censorship and cancel culture in the creation of art.
Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to arts consultant Manick Govinda, who co-founded Brexit Creatives, about what he sees as the art world's censorship or 'cancelling' of pro-Brexit views; Samuel Beckett scholar Dr Jackie Blackman on Beckett's use of silence in his plays as a form of self-censorship; journalist Mayssa Issa, about the silencing of artists during the coronavirus pandemic with arts being considered 'non-essential'; and Turkey's 'standing man' Erdem Gündüz, whose 2013 silent protest against the Turkish government went viral.
Through conversations with a range of acclaimed speakers across a range of disciplines, Breaking Silence explores ways in which voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking silences.
Links
Watch the music video for Danser Encore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBEMRyt6Qg
Buy Beckett and Ethics: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/1605839840_beckett-and-ethics/9781441151179
Find out more about Brexit Creatives on their Twitter @brexitcreatives
Photo credit
Erdem Gündüz, standing in Istanbul's Taksim Square in June 2013 as a silent protest against the Turkish government.
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