“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must never be afraid to do what he must choose.” Langston Hughes

Freedom is a word to which we have attached a lot of prefabricated meanings, a concept we think we know so well that we might consider it empty. It has been hijacked by the political right for the permission to do and say as one pleases, on the left, people don’t seem to believe in it anymore or trust it. The writer Maggy Nelson describes her interest in ongoing ‘practices of freedom’ by which we negotiate our interrelation with - indeed, our inseparability from - others, with all the care and constraint that relation entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.

A work of art, simultaneously, speaks and interacts to a public, even more so when placed directly into a public space. Thinking …

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