[csaa-forum] TfC Seminar Invite: Bill Henson - An Appreciation

[Stephen Muecke]

>
> ____________
> Transforming Cultures Seminar
>
> TfC invites you to a lunch time Transforming Cultures seminar:
> Bill Henson - An Appreciation
> presented by Tony Mitchell (Cultural Studies, TfC, UTS), with  
> Catharine Lumby (Media Studies, UNSW) as respondent.
>
> Date: Thursday, 5th June
> Time: 12.30-2pm
> Venue: Building 2, Room 7.110
> All welcome.
> Entrance Free: RSVP to Transforming.Cultures at uts.edu.au
>
> Abstract:
> The recent impounding of some of Bill Henson’s photographs from the  
> Roslyn Oxley9 gallery and elsewhere by the New South Wales police,  
> and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s description of them as ‘revolting’  
> raises serious issues about artistic freedom in Australia. This  
> seminar offers an appreciation of aesthetic aspects of the work of  
> Bill Henson from the perspective of a cultural studies lecturer who  
> has taught Henson’s work to first year students in the past. It  
> draws comparisons between Henson’s work and the Italian renaissance  
> artist Caravaggio, who was also noted for portraying the naked  
> bodies of children and adolescents in his work (some of which hangs  
> in churches around Italy), and offers an argument for the importance  
> of defending Henson’s photographs from slurs and insinuations that  
> they are ‘pornography’. The subjection of Henson and his work to  
> police brutality of this nature is a scandal which has precedents  
> stretching back in Australia to the 1950s, and to the ban
> ning of Pasolini’s Salò more recently, and raises serious concerns  
> about the public appreciation of art works which deal with  
> potentially disturbing subjects.
>
> Details: http://www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au/news_events/TfC_seminar_Henson.html
> -- 
> Lindi Renier Todd
> Research, Outreach & Publications Officer
> Transforming Cultures
> University of Technology, Sydney
> Lindi.Todd at uts.edu.au
> + 61 2 9514 2757
> www.transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au



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