Four ways artists are activists

You don’t need to sew your lips together or take to the streets to make political art. In fact, your work may be more political than you realise.
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Wesley Enoch is uncomfortable with the very idea of ‘political artists’. To the Sydney Festival Artistic Director, who recently chaired a panel on the subject at the International Society for the Performing Arts, the idea that some artists are political and others are uncontroversial is a complete misunderstanding of what artists do.

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Deborah Stone
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Deborah Stone is a Melbourne journalist and communications professional. She is a former Editor of ArtsHub and a former Fairfax feature writer.