Freedom of the Arts • Public Lecture Series • Applied Human Rights
Lecture #3 • Sandra Frimmel: Why and How the Freedom of Art in Russia Plays a Significant
Role in National Security Policy
Freedom of the Arts • Public Lecture Series • Applied Human Rights
Applied Human Rights
Applied Human Rights
The general constitution of a society, its tolerance or intransigence, can be read on the example of artistic freedom.
Based on art court trials in Russia in the early 2000s, the lecture aims to trace the interactions between court trials, art
practice, and legislation. How did individual lawsuits against artists and curators cause a change in legislation and thus
lead to an increasing restriction not only of artistic freedom? Which social and political groups are responsible for this
norming process in the field of visual arts? How does this affect art production and exhibition practice?
Using selected works of art as examples, we will also look at the absurdity of trying to
reconcile juridical and aesthetic speech in court, because the value systems they refer to are hardly compatible. It will
be all the more revealing to trace a historical transformation on the basis of court records and to show how, in the course
of the last two decades, supposed individual cases have led to a standard legal procedure and how the gradual restrictions
on artistic freedom are linked to developments in society as a whole as well as to security policy interests.Weitere
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