Image: Marilyn Minter, still from "Green Pink Caviar," in Destricted.
I'm a bit late posting info for this series, but there is still a chance to catch the screening and discussion tomorrow, Monday, Sept 27:
via National Coalition Against Censorship:
How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20
In September 2010, the National Coalition Against Censorship, in partnership with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and the BFA Department of Visual & Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts, will hold held a series of programs to highlight the effects 1990s attacks on culture continue to have on art and society and to reassess the state of art funding, censorship and self-censorship today. The programs include panel discussions, film screenings and event-specific videos.
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FILM SCREENING
►Film screenings include films that were censored by means of direct suppression or just by very limited distribution. These films are still hard to find in the U.S.
Indecent Exposure: A Discussion and Screening of Films You Are Unlikely to See Elsewhere
Monday, September 27, 2010 – 6:30 p.m.
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street, New York
FREE ADMISSION
6:30 Destricted, a collection of short films by visual artists, all exploring the boundaries between pornography and art. This will be the exclusive national pre-release screening of the film. Destrictedhas screened at the Tate Modern in London in 2006, Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Sundance and Edinburgh Film Festivals. It includes films by Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Cecily Brown, Marylin Minter, Richard Prince, and Sam Taylor-Wood., and others.
Watch the trailer for DESTRICTED.
7:30 Discussion with Amy Adler, the Emily Kempin Professor of Law at NYU, documentary film director Tony Comstock, Andrew Hale, Destricted's Founder, filmmaker Marilyn Minter, and Neville Wakefield, one of Destricted's Producers.
8:30 Larry Clark, Ken Park (2002), a film about the abusive home life of several skateboarders in California. Ken Park's controversial sexual content has led to the film being banned in Australia and to its very limited distribution in other countries.
Watch the trailer for KEN PARK.
VIDEO SERIES
►A series of videos of prominent artists, curators and critics (U.S. and foreign), created specially for this event, address the questions of arts funding and censorship around the world will be screened during the events and will be available on social media sites, including YouTube and Facebook, as well as on DVD to educational institutions and libraries.
Power, Taboo and the Artist: a series of video interviews with artists and curators worldwide
Check it out HERE.
The responses and creative comments of artists and curators worldwide to these and other related questions are collected in Power, Taboo and the Artist, an ongoing video project to be launched online September 15th 2010.Follow this website for additional information on this program as it is being developed.
