Le Guess Who? Festival Stories
Le Guess Who? is a Celebration of Sound in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The festival is dedicated to boundary-crossing music & culture from all over the world.
Le Guess Who? Festival Stories
Artistic Freedom Under Threat: Mobility, Censorship & the Right to Create
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Artistic freedom is too often reduced to “freedom of expression”, but for artists and independent cultural organizers, the ground is much more complex.
It’s not only what someone can say, but where someone can go, how someone can live, who someone can reach, and whether someone can sustain the work without fear.
In this podcast, the first in a series of conversations recorded at Le Guess Who?’s Sound & Culture Summit, three music and arts practitioners from Syria, Georgia and Malaysia join us to offer their perspectives, based on the experiences in their home cultures as well as the place they now call home.
‘Artistic Freedom Under Threat: Mobility, Censorship & the Right to Create’ features U? curator Al-Shaheen Falcon, Nino Davadze of Mutant Radio Tbilisi and Victoria Yam, co-founder of ALIGN.ONLINE and also known as rEmPiT g0dDe$$. The conversation is moderated by Manon Moulin and curated by Reset! network.
Audio recording by Marc Broer
Editing by Margaret Munchheimer
Photography by 36framez