Panel
How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20, Panel 2 – Decency, Respect, and Community Standards: What Offends Us Now?
Sep 22, 2010
7:00–9:00pm ET
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Congressional decision to require the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to consider “general standards of decency and respect” in awarding grants, the National Coalition Against Censorship and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School collaborate on two panel discussions and a video interview project evaluating censorship and arts funding today.
Panel Discussion II
Decency, Respect, and Community Standards: What Offends Us Now?
Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
This panel looks at changing attitudes towards notions of decency over the past twenty years. It addresses how representations of nudity and sexuality have changed in contemporary art, and proposes a redefinition of what is considered offensive or inappropriate under our current political climate. The panel brings together artists whose work provoked the culture wars twenty years ago and those who deal with taboo topics today.
Moderator
Laura Flanders, GritTV
Participants
Wafaa Bilal, artist
Holly Hughes, one of the NEA4
Trevor Paglen, provocateur and experimental geographer
Carolee Schneemann, pioneering feminist artist
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How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20, Panel 1 – Survival vs. Autonomy: Public Funding of the Arts, Free Speech, and Self Censorship