Can Protest Art Change the World?
Art meets activism with novelist Angie Thomas; artist Santiago Sierra; writer Ece Temelkuran and composer Fredrik Ă–sterling.
Novelist Angie Thomas tells Tina how the Black Lives Matter movement motivated her to write the award-winning young adult novel, The Hate U Give.
Artist Santiago Sierra meets the ±«Óătv’s Guy Hedgecoe to discuss why the photography exhibition Political Prisoners in Contemporary Spain is provoking disapproval and demonstrations.
Writer Ece Temelkuran reflects on the newly re-elected President Erdogan’s rebuilding- and rebranding- of the Atatürk Cultural Centre, a focal point for the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul.
Plus, how do you deal with hate mail creatively? Swedish composer Fredrik Ă–sterling explains why the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra turned a homophobic letter into an operatic libretto.
Presenter: Tina Daheley
Producer: Kirsty McQuire
Image: Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement staged a 'Black Resistance March' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the Democratic Presidential Convention in July 2016. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones/ Pacific Press/ Light Rocket via Getty Images
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