A new art exhibition titled Blasphemous opened (appropriately) on Good Friday in the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA) in Lad Lane, off Baggott Street, Dublin 2. It’s the second art exhibition to highlight and challenge the new Irish blasphemy law, which became active on 1st January 2010.
Since then, the Irish Justice Minister has responded to the campaign against the law by saying that he will propose a referendum, later this year, to remove the reference to blasphemy from the Irish Constitution, thus enabling the blasphemy law to be repealed.
This makes the new exhibition in IMOCA not just a challenge to the blasphemy law, but also a celebration of artistic freedom, and freedom of expression generally. The exhibition runs until 25 April and is open from 12 noon to 5 pm every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, or by appointment through contacting IMOCA.
A real bunch of heroes you are! This law was implimented not because of christians,
It was because of islam, without 1 excepetion all these ’socalled’artists know this!
i’m against this law, but this exhibition is so terribly lame and tame! Were there none
brave enough to address islam and the real problem. It is so 60-70ees there was no uproar
then neither will there be now, how can these people think they are artists they are losers
except those who took on islam, those are artists, making a real statement!
Comment by Roel Geurtsen — April 6, 2010 @ 5:28 pm
no harm to but what a waste of time. if they bothered reading the full law it states – (3) It shall be a defence to proceedings for an offence under this
section for the defendant to prove that a reasonable person would
find genuine literary, artistic, political, scientific, or academic value
in the matter to which the offence relates.
Comment by jo — April 7, 2010 @ 12:51 pm