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The Rhinoceros in the Room
Artist writer director faces a battle for art itself in the face of trigger warnings and self-censorship From ancient inaccessible cave art to the banned works of artists, writers and performers, the obstacle for all creative activity is censorship and more significantly self-censorship. The threat of benefactors cutting off or denying financing, the changing political/social environment and imagined or real threats of ostracism by fellow artists/colleagues pose the great cha

JOE WOODWARD
Jan 86 min read


Theatre As a Smiling Clown in a Knock-Em-Down Gallery
A reflection on Eugene Ionesco's play RHINOCEROS The lemming smile of the porcelain clown can't help but haunt the savage moment of one's demise; the demise of the artist and the observer of human kind as it descends into the banal oblivion of cultural goo ... The idiot smile of certainty planted on the faces of once seemingly intelligent creatures as mouths scream and chant the slogans of the platitudinous gods ... that smile of the revolutionary hero about to die ... like

JOE WOODWARD
Nov 18, 20254 min read


Have a listen to Fecal Rain; Faecal Reign
Fecal Rain Faecal Reign is now available for listening in full For years I have struggled against the depressing feeling that Erich...

JOE WOODWARD
Aug 6, 20251 min read
