Artistic Freedom
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Billboard ads, socks, plates, even kickboxing: are these really matters of artistic freedom? The boundary is more blurred than it seems. What is clear is that threats to creative expression rarely arrive in clean, visible lines. They move quietly. Under-reported incidents. Weak reporting systems. People in the field know the limits of numbers. They track trends, set
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Imagine a smart, cheeky report with a playful visual language. Nothing like the typical output of human-rights groups. But, its harmless-looking cover, belies its contents. Koalisi Seni, an Indonesian advocacy group for artistic freedom, has just released Cerita Lama Berulang Kembali (Same Old, Same Old). Inside: sixty cases of censorship, harassment, intimidation. The highest figure in a decade.
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Slovenian artist Maja Smrekar is suing the right-wing Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), for misusing her work – a performance in which she breastfed her puppy – during a referendum campaign on pension reforms. In a video interview from her studio in Ljubljana, she speaks with Musa Igrek of Freemuse about how her performance on kinship and care, K-9_topology:
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On Music Freedom Day we remember the long and fraught struggle of Kurdish musicians in Türkiye. For decades, Kurdish artistic expression was systematically suppressed under a national policy that enforced a singular Turkish identity. Music, literature, cinema, and theatre in Kurdish were banned, their existence relegated to underground spaces or exile. It was not until the
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Parvin Ardalan, born in Tehran to a Kurdish family, has spent decades at the forefront of Iran’s feminist movement. A journalist, writer, and activist, she co-founded the One Million Signatures Campaign in 2006, a daring initiative to challenge the country’s discriminatory laws against women. Her advocacy has come at a steep personal price—arrests, trials, and a travel
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Hükümetlerin ifade ve yayımlama özgürlüğünü güvence altına almaktaki başarısızlığı, yazarların bu konudaki endişelerini artırıyor. Dünya yazarlar birliği PEN Amerika’nın, dünya çapında yaklaşık 800 yazarın katılımıyla hazırladığı yeni raporda bu kaygıya dair çarpıcı sonuçları gündeme getirdi. PEN’in 5 Ocak’ta yayımladığı “Global Chilling: The Impact of Mass Surveillance on International Writers” adlı rapora göre, demokratik ve demokratik
Musa Igrek 