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Artist: Hong Seong-dam

Year: 2014

Date of Action: August, 2014

Region: Asia

Location: Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion

Medium: Painting

Confronting Bodies: City government of Gwangju, South Korea

Description of Artwork: A 32-foot-wide painting, which portrays, among other elements, Korean president Park Geun-hye as a maniacal scarecrow facing off against angered parents of children who died in the sinking of the MV Sewol ferry in April, 2014, a national tragedy that has had huge political repercussions. Park is being held back by former president Park Chung-hee (her late father), and her chief of staff Kim Ki-choon.

The Incident: The Biennale Foundation initially claimed that the work’s exclusion from the exhibition had nothing to do with politics and was purely logistical—Hong simply submitted the work late. But it was later revealed that the decision to withhold the painting from the 20th anniversary exhibition was in fact prompted by the city of Gwangju, which sponsors the exhibition to the tune of $2.4 million for this year’s Biennale. The city government had asked that Hong change the painting.

Results of Incident: In response to the censorship of Hong’s work, other artists featured in “Sweet Dew” removed their works from the exhibition and its curator, Yun Beom-mo, resigned. The president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Lee Yong-woo, also resigned. The case has provoked international protests and has been covered widely.

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• http://news.artnet.com/art-world/gwangju-biennale-president-resigns-over-censorship-82587

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-|description_of_content=“I want a dyke for president,” Zoe Leonard writes in her 1992 poem inspired by the author Eileen Myles’ run for president, written at the height of the AIDS epidemic. "I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to AIDS, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. I want a president with no air-conditioning, a president who has stood in line at the clinic, at the DMV, at the welfare office, and has been unemployed and laid off and sexually harassed and gaybashed and deported. I want someone who has spent the night in the tombs and had a cross burned on their lawn and survived rape. I want someone who has been in love and been hurt, who respects sex, who has made mistakes and learned from them. I want a Black woman for president. I want someone with bad teeth and an attitude, someone who has eaten that nasty hospital food, someone who crossdresses and has done drugs and been in therapy. I want someone who has committed civil disobedience. And I want to know why this isn’t possible. I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown. Always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker. Always a liar, always a thief, and never caught."
+|description_of_content=A 32-foot-wide painting, which portrays, among other elements, Korean president Park Geun-hye as a maniacal scarecrow facing off against angered parents of children who died in the sinking of the MV Sewol ferry in April, 2014, a national tragedy that has had huge political repercussions. Park is being held back by former president Park Chung-hee (her late father), and her chief of staff Kim Ki-choon.
-|description_of_incident=Washington, D.C. couple Leighton Brown and Matthew Riemer posted the poem on the Instagram account @lgbt_history, which is dedicated to the history of the LGBT community. Brown and Riemer told the press that the poem "is among the starkest representations of the queer community’s feelings of desperation and underrepresentation at the height of the AIDS era.“ A few days later, the post — which had over 12,000 likes — was taken down by the platform for “violating community standards.” Brown and Riemer reposted the poem three times afterwards, and each time it was taken down. They then asked their followers to share the poem, filling Instagram with hundreds of posts of the poem. While not all of those posts were deleted, those censored for participating included the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, who was in the process of planning a retrospective of the poet Zoe Leonard’s work.
+|description_of_incident=The Biennale Foundation initially claimed that the work’s exclusion from the exhibition had nothing to do with politics and was purely logistical—Hong simply submitted the work late. But it was later revealed that the decision to withhold the painting from the 20th anniversary exhibition was in fact prompted by the city of Gwangju, which sponsors the exhibition to the tune of $2.4 million for this year’s Biennale. The city government had asked that Hong change the painting.
-|description_of_result=For three days following public outcry over the blatant art censorship on its platform, Instagram's only comment was that they were “looking into it.” By the end of the week, the company announced through a spokesperson that “The content was taken down by mistake, and has since been restored."
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-|source=https://qz.com/1190263/why-is-instagram-censoring-zoe-leonards-poem-from-1992
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