WROCŁAW, 3rd November 2008

WARSZAWA, 12th November 2008

POZNAŃ, 18th November 2008

GDAŃSK, 26th November 2008

Expanding freedom of culture, art, science and media is commonly associated with an uncompromising battle with censorship. „Indeks 73 Forum”aims to expand the sphere of freedom and expression through a series of meetings with artists, curators and people who happen to restrain artistic expression acting as censors.

We want to go beyond the strategy of surveillance and punishment applied so easily in the battle with censorship. Instead of appointing new police forces responsible for hunting crimes of censorship, we want to act as the rank-and-file initiative to build free culture society. We wish to place censorship in its socio-cultural context, which often makes censorship functional. Therefore it is not sufficient to sentence censors to reintroduce free culture, as they are only a part of a bigger „freedom-less” order.

We also want to diagnose censorship from the rank-and-file point of view of the people involved in the process of creation in different cities. The idea of „Forum” is to invite all people interested in expanding the sphere of free culture. We start in Wrocław, then we come to Warsaw, Poznan and Gdańsk.
 dalej