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Artist: Vasily Slonov

Year: 2013

Date of Action: June 2013

Region: Russia and Central Asia

Location: Russia's Perm Region

Subject: Copyright, Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture

Confronting Bodies: Perm Regional Ministry of Culture

Description of Artwork: Vasily Slonov's exhibition "Welcome! Sochi 2014" presents various takes on Sochi 2014 olympic iconography in order to depict the social and labor injustices that have been associated with the coming olympic games. Some of the more high profile pieces include a mock-poster depicting the olympic rings as a series of interlocking nooses and a rough-looking hatchet with the Sochi 2014 logo emblazoned on the axe head.

The Incident: The curator and director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Marat Guelman, was forced to leave his post after refusing to remove Slonov's "Welcome! Sochi 2014" exhibit. A week prior, Slonov's work was removed by Russian authorities from a cultural festival. Guelman, who organized the festival, responded by moving the exhibit into the Perm Museum. Guelman's twitter page suggests that he was fired from his post by Igor Gladnev, the Perm regional minister of culture.

Authorities cited to unauthorized use of the Sochi 2014 logo as the reason Vasily Slonov's work was targeted.

Results of Incident: Marat Guelman was fired from his position as director and curator of the Perm Museum of Contemporary art, but Slonov's "Welcome! Sochi 2014" remains on display.

Source:
• http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/21/19058345-russian-censors-target-olympic-themed-art-ahead-of-sochi-2014

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-'''Artist:''' Aristophanes
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+|year=2013
+|region=Russia and Central Asia
+|artist=Vasily Slonov
+|subject=Copyright, Political/Economic/Social Opinion
+|confronting_bodies=Perm Regional Ministry of Culture
+|medium=Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture
+|date_of_action=June 2013
+|location=Russia's Perm Region
+|description_of_content=Vasily Slonov's exhibition "Welcome! Sochi 2014" presents various takes on Sochi 2014 olympic iconography in order to depict the social and labor injustices that have been associated with the coming olympic games.  Some of the more high profile pieces include a mock-poster depicting the olympic rings as a series of interlocking nooses and a rough-looking hatchet with the Sochi 2014 logo emblazoned on the axe head.
+|description_of_incident=The curator and director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Marat Guelman, was forced to leave his post after refusing to remove Slonov's "Welcome! Sochi 2014" exhibit. A week prior, Slonov's work was removed by Russian authorities from a cultural festival. Guelman, who organized the festival, responded by moving the exhibit into the Perm Museum. Guelman's twitter page suggests that he was fired from his post by Igor Gladnev, the Perm regional minister of culture.
-'''Confronting Bodies:''' Plutarch, United States customs, Nazi occupation authorities, Greek military
+Authorities cited to unauthorized use of the Sochi 2014 logo as the reason Vasily Slonov's work was targeted.
+|description_of_result=Marat Guelman was fired from his position as director and curator of the Perm Museum of Contemporary art, but Slonov's "Welcome! Sochi 2014" remains on display.
+|image=130620-sochi-art-1.photoblog600.jpg
+|source=http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/21/19058345-russian-censors-target-olympic-themed-art-ahead-of-sochi-2014
+}}
-'''Dates of Action:''' A.D. 66, 1942, 1954, 1967
-'''Location:''' Greece, United States
-'''Description of Artwork:''' ''The Clouds'' 423 B.C.: Comedy, an attack on the 'modern' education and morals as imported and taught by Sophists. in this play Socrates and his pupils are ridiculed, and at the end of it, their school, the Phrontisterion (thinking school) is burned to the ground. Socrates is pilloried as a typical representative of impious and destructive speculations.
-''The Birds'' 414 B.C.: Comedy of fantasy. Some scholars see it as a political satire on the imperialistic dreams that had led the Athenians to undertake their ill-starred expedition of 415 B.C. against Syracuse Sicily.
-''[[Lysistrata]]'' 411 B.C. Play depicting the seizure of Acropolis and of the treasury of Athens.
-'''The Incident:'''  A.D. 66 His comedies were considered obscene by Plutarch
-United States : Customs ban lifted on ''[[Lysistrata]]''. During the period of prohibition the book was published and sold for as little as thirty-five cents; and the drama was played in New York and Philadelphia as adapted by Gilbert Seldes.
-Athens, Greece : performance of classic Greek plays banned by Nazi occupation authorities.
-United States : Post Office officials seized a copy of the 1926 translation of ''[[Lysistrata]]'', by Jack Lindsay, addressed by Fanfrolico Press, England, to Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills bookseller. The Post Office quickly reversed itself and delivered the book, but only because it was "not for general distribution".
-Athens, Greece : The military clique then ruling the country banned a number of classic plays, including those named above, presumably because of their independent and antiwar themes.
-[[Aristophanes|Read more....]]
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