Unpopular Culture
Theme for the 2004 Festival was UNPOPULAR CULTURE and was designed to encourage a range of responses to current day issues and youth culture. Artistic Director, Marcus Westbury, who was in the demographic of festival artists, embraced Melbourne’s inner-city laneways, old Dojos and empty buildings. Highlights included the Festival Club, which presented the first ever Freeplay conference, the Containers at Federation Square program, and Colliding Worlds – a major regional program. In all 600 artists participated in 90 projects that attracted massive audiences and inspired a new generation of young Next Wave participants.
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Famous quotes containing the words unpopular and/or culture:
“Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)