Creative Meats

THOUSANDS AGAINST S92A
There are now over 4000 signatures on our petition against Guilt Upon Accusation laws in NZ. The petition can be signed by artists and the wider public at http://creativefreedom.org.nz

RESPONSE TO APRA’S STATEMENTS ON CFF
We were disappointed today to discover that APRA are ramping up their efforts to push for Section 92A: a flawed law that presumes Guilt Upon Accusation, punishing internet users with disconnection before a trial and before any evidence is held up to court scrutiny. Similar laws overseas have been used to stifle free speech and harm public rights. Since our launch one month ago thousands of artists have rejected the idea that the creative sector want injustices like this done in their name. No one wants to deprive money from artists, but this particular law is an inappropriate and extreme measure for dealing with the problem of copyright infringement.

Read our response to APRA here:
http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html?id=51

Are you a member of APRA? If you disagree with their stance on this issue, let us know that you don’t want APRA to do this in your name. We advocate on behalf of artists like you: we will represent you and promise to protect your privacy. Of course if you want to contact them yourself that’s good too!
Email us at: cff@holloway.co.nz

CFF NEWSLETTER, 17 JAN 09
Read the latest CFF Newsletter here, if you haven’t already: http://creativefreedom.org.nz/story.html?id=45

Bedwyr Williams
Enjoy Public Art Gallery
22 Jan-14 Feb 2009
Opening celebration and performance “Methodist to my Madness” 6pm, 21 Jan

For his exhibition at Enjoy, Williams will explore the limited power of the art poster. The show will include posters for exhibitions that never got off the ground and performances that never happened, baffling posters, clever posters, dumb posters, posters which stink of ink, posters that fade, posters designed by interns or drawn by children and simple posters.

The opening event will also feature Williams’ performance Methodist to my Madness in which he appears as a Methodist preacher. It is a performance work about the process of a performance, from beginning to end: from the invitation of the curator to dressing at the office of the gallery afterwards.  Raised in a religious family, church services were the first “performances” the artist saw. The theatrics of the frightening disciplinary sermons were Bedwyr Williams’ direct inspiration for this work.

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Bedwyr Williams will also undertake a One Day Sculpture commission for Enjoy on 12 Feb 09. For this 24-hour event Bedwyr will make every minute count. In Le ‘Welsh’ Man’s 24 hour an uncomfortable marriage between motorsports and art will be created. It will be fast, furious, and an event in which individual people, buildings, pets and the odd bump in the road will no doubt play an intricate part, and become the artistic subject matter.

The results of this intense gumball rally will accumulate by the hours, create a build up of anticipation, physical visual interpretations of his subjects and materialise to a grand finale. You have to be there. This one cannot be missed. See here for more info.

Both projects are curated by Siv B.Fjærestad.