Freemuse participated in WOMEX this year with a session “Artists ad Terrorists? The Global Threat of Anti-terror Legislation to Artistic Freedom” presented during the conference.
Paige Collings, Freemuse Global Advocacy and Campaigns Coordinator chaired this session with Jasmina Lazović, Freemuse Programme Coordinator – Global Monitoring and Yalda Yazdani from Zeitgenoessische Oper Berlin, discussing the worsening trend of counterterrorism being misused to silence artistic expressions.
#WOMEX21#WOMEXConference: Artists across the world are being attacked, detained, prosecuted and imprisoned as a result of misuses of antiterrorism legislation. Rhetoric about the need for heightened national security measures, combined with the introduction of provisions designed to counter acts considered to be inciting or glorifying terrorism, have restricted artistic freedom. This alarming trend indicates that some governments, in their efforts to assure national security, tend to misuse the vague and overbroad definitions of what constitutes terrorism to undermine expressions.
In this WOMEX session, Paige Collings, Jasmina Lazovic and Yalda Yazdani will discuss the worsening trend of counterterrorism being misused to silence artistic expressions and collaboratively map out potential advocacy and mobilisation tactics that are being used to uphold freedom of expression whilst also protecting against terrorism.
ARTISTS AS TERRORISTS?
THE GLOBAL THREAT OF ANTI-TERROR LEGISLATION TO ARTISTIC FREEDOM
Chaired by Paige Collings (UK/Denmark), Freemuse
with Jasmina Lazovic (Serbia), Freemuse;
Yalda Yazdani (Iran/Germany), Zeitgenoessische Oper Berlin
Find out more about the WOMEX 21 Conference Programme here: https://www.womex.com/programme/conference
Register now and be part once again of the most international music meeting in the world and the biggest conference of the global music scene: https://www.womex.com/virtual/registration/womex/2021
See You Porto!
The session will aim to collaboratively map out potential advocacy and mobilisation tactics used to uphold freedom of expression whilst also protecting against terrorism.
WOMEX Worldwide Music Expo is the international music meeting and the biggest conference of the global music scene, featuring a trade fair, talks, films and showcase concerts. This year, WOMEX is held in Porto, Portugal.
