The place creativity and talent thrive. I witnessed how artistic enquiry into social issues was a stimulus to free and inventive exchange. The aim of Arts Entry Aotearoa Putanga Toi ki Aotearoa is to increase access to the arts for individuals who experience limitations to participation as artists, performers, audience members, and gallery and museum guests.

This video paperwork Alfredo Jaar’s 1987 animation for an electronic billboard in New York City’s Times Sq., which was originally commissioned by the Public Art Fund as a part of the Messages to the Public program. Anthony Downey is Professor of Visual Culture within the Middle East and North Africa inside the College of Arts, Design and Media at Birmingham Metropolis University, and, Editor-in-Chief, Ibraaz Publishing.