Who’s the Censor Now? FPÖ Attacks Artist in Town Council
Text by: Stefan Lutschinger
On Dezember 22nd I attended a presentation of Slum TV by Alexander Nikolic given at Galerie 35 in Berlin, presented by Tanja Ostojic, David Rych and Dmytri Kleiner on behalf of the Art & Economics Group.
The Art & Economics group investigates the intersection of art and political economy and this was the last in a series of four discussions held in 2007. Topics included political economy as a theme in art, the economics of art production and economic activity as an action based art practice. Tanja Ostojić herself became known throughout Europe overnight in late December 2005 as a result of the “EU Panties” poster, a satire of Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du monde. Ostojić’s version displayed her own crotch, photographed by David Rych, but clothed in blue underwear complete with EU stars. The image is meant as an ironic suggestion that foreign women are only welcome in Europe when they drop their underwear. read more
