Originally posted by LazerLordz:
Artist's protest feels the noose
IT was a rare public display of protest against the death penalty
that even Singapore's arts community didn't want the world to
see.
Slovenian art student
Matija Milkovic Biloslav had displayed under falling nooses
a single standing stool carrying a card with Van's execution number
-- C856 -- a very deliberate reference to the Melbourne man,
scheduled to be hanged at dawn this Friday.
But after The Australian unexpectantly attended last Friday night's
opening of the exhibition
at the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, the self-consorship
that pervades the country of four million took hold.
Slovenian Matija Milkovic Biloslav engaged in more than just art
in Sg.
Foreigners who don't like our law should leave our country. Sg's
politic and law, no matter how oppressive, are for Singaporean to
settle. It is not for them to talk down to us on how to run our
country, esp doing it so within our country.
