Artist: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti - playwrightBurmingham Repertory Theater
Confronting Bodies: Sikh community of Birmingham, U.K.
Date of Action: December 2004
Specific Location: Burmingham, U.K.
Description of Artwork: The play, which revolves around two Sikh women in a Gurdwara (a Sikh place of worship), involves scenes of sexual abuse, violence and murder. It is described as "a black comedy".
Description of Incident: Performances of the play were cancelled by the theatre due to threats of violent disorder from the Sikh community. Birmingham Repertory Theatre said it was acting out of fears for public safety.
The decision was taken following the attempt by more than 400 Sikhs to storm the theatre in protest at its production of the play.
Results of Incident: Another Birmingham theater has offered to stage the play.
Source: Thr Independent, NCAC
Date Input: Thursday, January 13, 2005
Date Edited: Thursday, January 13, 2005
Name: Leaving the Monkhood for Love song banned
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Date: 1995 - 2005
Location: Asia
Subject: Religious
Medium: Music
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Artist: Singer Heng Bunleap
Radio and TV stations in Cambodia
Confronting Bodies: Cambodian government - the Information Ministry
Date of Action: December, 2004
Specific Location: Cambodia
Description of Artwork: A song with lyrics about a monk who prefers love in the arms of a woman to life at the pagoda.
Description of Incident: The Information Ministry has requested radio and TV stations to not play the song.
Results of Incident: Unknown.
Source: BBC News/ NCAC
Date Input: Monday, January 10, 2005
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Name: Hiram Powers "The Greek Slave"
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Date: 1800 - 1850
Location: North America
Subject: Nudity
Medium: Sculpture
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Artist: Hiram Powers
Confronting Bodies: clergymen
Date of Action: 1848
Specific Location: USA
Description of Artwork: Sculpture of female nude.
Description of Incident: Americans were scandalized by the fact that the slave was nude.
Results of Incident: Powers claimed that the slave she was a pure Christian girl, being sold on the block somewhere like Constantinople to the heathen Turks, but protected from evil eyes by her chastity and spiritual virtues. He got the statue approved by a body of clergymen, and it was singled out for honors at the Great Crystal Palace Exhibition in London in 1851, took in $25,000 in admissions when exhibited in New York, and sold in half-a-dozen full-sized replicas.
Source: NCAC
Date Input: Friday, December 3, 2004
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Name: Dulac and Artaud's The Seashell and the Clergyman
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Date: 1926 - 1950
Location: Europe
Subject: Religious
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Medium: Film Video
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Artist: Germaine Dulac
Confronting Bodies: British Board Of Film Censors
Date of Action: 1929
Specific Location: England
Description of Artwork: La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman. Dulac. 1928) La Coquille has been given the honour of being the first feminist and Surrealist film ever made And not surprisingly it has caused its fair share of controversy. The director, Germaine Dulac, used a scenario written by Antonin Artaud, but gave it her own interpretation. Artaud had initiaily wanted to play the priest (played by Alex Allin) but not to direct the film, but after the film had come out immediately started criticising Dulac for her modification of his mysoginistic and brutal scenario. According to the film journalist Wendy Dozoretz. Artaud shouted 'Mme Dulac is a cow!' at the premiere and his friends stopped the screening before storming out. La Coquille is ''...the unique product of two incongruous minds." (Dozoretz. Wide Angle. 1979)
Description of Incident: In banning it the British Board Of Film Censors states: "This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable."
Results of Incident: Banned in 1929.
Source: NCAC
Date Input: Friday, December 3, 2004
Date Edited: Friday, December 3, 2004
Name: Boris Mikhailov
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Date: 1951 - 1975
Location: Russia and Central Asia
Subject: Nudity
Medium: Photography
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Artist: Boris Mikhailov
Confronting Bodies: KGB; Soviet government
Date of Action: 1960s
Specific Location: The Ukraine
Description of Artwork: nude photographs of Mikhailov's wife
Description of Incident: Mikhailov was fired from his engineering job when the KGB found a nude photograph he had taken of his wife. Nudity in photography was forbidden by the Soviet government. It was deemed antithetical to the goals of Soviet Realist art - to champion the honorable proletariat. The nude was only allowed in museums in Old Master paintings.
Results of Incident: Mikhailov went on photographing nudes as an act of defiance and a celebratory representation of freedom and self-expression. In 1997 he moved to Berlin.
Source: Boston ICA exhibition brochure, 2004
Submitted By: NCAC
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Date Input: Friday, December 3, 2004
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Name: Nicky Nodjoumi
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Date: 1985 - 1995
Location: Middle East and Caucasus
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Painting
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Artist: Iranian artist Nicky Nodjoumi
Confronting Bodies: Iranian Government of Ayatollah Khomeini
Date of Action: 1980s
Specific Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Description of Artwork: 150 paintings containing anti-revolutionary imagery
Description of Incident: the paintings were confiscated and destroyed
Results of Incident: Since then, Nodjoumi has been living and working in New York.
Source: Press release, Mike Weiss gallery, New York
Submitted By: NCAC
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Date Input: Friday, December 3, 2004
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Name: Art copies
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Date: 1995 - 2005
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Location: Europe
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Subject: Other
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,Other
Medium: Painting
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Artist: -
Confronting Bodies: -
Date of Action: -
Specific Location: España
Description of Artwork: Copia de la Venus del Espejo de Velazquez
Description of Incident: Se presenta un trabajo final libre en una asignatura de Bellas Artes de Sevilla de cuyo resultado saldría la nota. No se expecificó tema, ni se negó la posibilidad de que esa obra fuera una copia
Results of Incident: Se suspendió y humilló al compañero que hizo tal obra desprestigiándolo por el hecho de ser una copia y no un original creado por él intelectualmente, tanto por parte del profesor como de algunos alumnos, olvidando que todos en la fase de aprendizaje, una de las mejores formas de aprender es asimilar lo que ya han conseguido otros antes, y esto es tan honrado para Picasso que aprendió copiando de todo, en un primer momento, como lo es para cualquier otra persona como mi compañero.
Source: -
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Date Input: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Date Edited: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Name: FELATIONATION
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Date: 1995 - 2005
Location: Europe
Subject: Sexual/Gender Orientation
Medium: Performance Art
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Artist: blitz
Confronting Bodies: SALADEESTAR
Date of Action: 2004
Specific Location: CALLE TRAJANO
Description of Artwork: FELATIO EN PLENA CALLE
Description of Incident: POLICIA INTERRUMPIÓ PERFORMANCE
Results of Incident: SE PUBLICÓ DE TODAS FORMAS FOTOGRAFÍAS DEL INICIO
Source: BLITZ REVISTA DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
Date Input: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
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Name: Historias de la Universidad
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Date: 1995 - 2005
Location: Europe
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Design
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Artist: Inmaculada Rodríguez Cunill
Confronting Bodies: Decanato de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad de Sevilla- Revista Buñuelitos
Date of Action: Se realizó un comic en el que una prostituta se presentaba a una plaza de profesora de universidad para impartir la asignatura de sexoterapia. El decano de la facultad manejaba los baremos y hacía que la prostitura empezara a ejercer de profesora
Specific Location: Sevilla
Description of Artwork: Cómic
Description of Incident: Se prohibió la continuación de la publicación Buñuelitos
Results of Incident: Se intentó echar del trabajo al compañero sentimental de la autora
Source: Revista Buñuelitos
Submitted By: Inmaculada Rodríguez Cunill
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Date Input: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
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Name: el turista cortés
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Date: 1995 - 2005
Location: Europe
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Public art
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Artist: blitz
Confronting Bodies: ayuntamiento de cáceres
Date of Action: marzo 2004
Specific Location: extremadura - CÁCERES
Description of Artwork: disfrazar la estatua de Hernán Cortés de Indio Moctezuma
Description of Incident: negación por parte del ayuntamiento de Cáceres por motivos estúpidos
Results of Incident: perplejidad social
Source: Periódico extremadura
Submitted By: blitz
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Date Input: Wednesday, November 24, 2004
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Name: German Government Denies Visa to South African Activist
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Date: 1995 - 2005
Location: Europe
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
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Medium: Public Speech
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Artist: Themba Mhbele
Confronting Bodies: German embassy in South Africa and "authorities in Cologne"
Date of Action: 13th to 16th of October 2004
Specific Location: Mehringhof in Berlin
Description of Artwork: Congress for freedom of movement and against the criminalization of refugees and migrants
Description of Incident: German Government Denies Visa to South African Activist
Themba Mhbele, General Secretary of the South African Anti-Privatization Forum (APF), denied visa to participate in the 10th anniversary congress and celebration of The Voice Refugee Forum. German Embassy in Johannesburg says the order came from authorities in Cologne.
Themba Mhbele had been invited by the Refugee Council of Hamburg to participate in the celebratory activities of The Voice Refugee Forum. According to the Refugee Council and confirmed by the German Embassy in Johannesburg, all necessary travel documents needed to issue a visa had been presented to the Embassy. When asked about the decision, the German authorities in South Africa refused to justify their decision.
The Anti-Privatization Forum is the largest and most well organized social movement in Africa. The movement is the result of the struggles of different grassroots organizations, which brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Many of their members have faced repression and even death in their campaigns against the privatization of public services and the evictions of people from their houses in the townships.
"This is part of the colonial heritage. What historic irony; refugees are attempting to break the isolation of foreigners in Germany and to show that the people can stand up for their rights no matter what the conditions. With this aim, we invite the General Secretary of the largest African social movement to speak with refugees and migrants about the experiences of struggle against Apartheid and then the German government makes the decision to deny Mr. Mhbele his visa," said Osaren Igbinoba, founding member of The Voice Refugee Forum.
"This is obviously a political decision that is not only a direct attack against our congress, but also against Mr. Mbhele and the Anti-Privatization Forum.
From the 13th to 16th of October, the refugee self-organization The Voice Refugee Forum is organizing a congress for freedom of movement and against the criminalization of refugees and migrants. Other events are to be held in Bremen, Hamburg, Bielefeld, Munich and Frankfurt.
Results of Incident: The congress had to take place without the participation of Mr. Mbhele. His tour had to be canceled
Source: http://thecaravan.org/node/view/181
Submitted By: Markus Saxinger
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Date Input: Sunday, October 24, 2004
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