Kiosk, Kiosk, Kiosk, Kiosk Kiosk Kios K Kios Kio Ki Kio Ki Kio Ki K Kios K Kiosk Kiosk K Kios Kiosk Ki Kio Kios Kio Ki Kio Kios K Ki Kiosk K Kiosk, Kiosk, Kiosk, K K Ki Kiosk Ki Kio Kios Kio Kios Kio Kios Kiosk Ki Kiosk K K Kiosk Ki K Kios Kio Ki Kio Kios Kio Ki Kiosk Kios K Kiosk Kiosk, Beaziyt BW Worcou 1 Symbolic speech Mahayana Buddhist monk by the name Johnson participated in a political call for Hungary to be independent quite obvious occurred to me. That Beaziyt Worcou of Thích Quang Ðuc sat down on a demonstration against the policies from all foreign powers, that Hungary is, flags are inherently concerned small cushion in the middle of a busy of Ronald Reagan outside Dallas should join the United Nations and with making graphic symbols and I’ve recently become increasingly street in Hue, South Saigon. Two of City Hall. Protesters carried banners, that Hungarian people should have ideas public. In a sense, to fly a flag interested in political flags – not only his fellow monks proceeded to douse distributed flyers and shouted slogans freedom. The crowd later sang the can be viewed as an act of publishing. what they look like but how they Ðuc’s body in petrol as he sat still in a such as, “Red, white and blue, we National Song, which at the time It is the publishing of the ideals and are used in various countercultural lotus position. Ðuc then lit a match and spit on you. You stand for plunder, was censored. During the protest, values of those it represents. To movements. I think the appeal, for me, set himself alight. you will go under.” At one point during a member of the crowd took the fly a flag harkens back to a primal comes from the idea that flags are a the protest, Johnson was handed an Hungarian flag and cut out the Soviet way of seeing and communicating. manifestation of this space between The events that led to the immolation American flag that was taken from a coat of arms at its centre, with many Whitney Smith expresses the idea graphic design and political society. of Ðuc began earlier that year under flagpole, which he then set alight. He others following suit. The Hungarian that: “to display a flag is to participate the strict regime of Vietnam’s first was later arrested and convicted with flag, now with the soviet coat of arms in a philosophy that spans time and In Flags Through the Ages and Across president, Ngô Đình Diem. Diem was the desecration of a veneered object, cut out of its centre, quickly became distances; it is to express one’s own The World, Whitney Smith notes: “a a staunch Catholic, who had banned sentenced to 12 months in prison and the symbol of the revolution. views to others in a concise but flag often gains the same respect as the flying of Buddhist flags just days fined $2000. The Texas State Court dramatic form.” [2] is accorded to the person or thing before Vesak Day – the religious of Criminal Appeals then reversed the 4. A man was lynched yesterday it represents.” [1] As a result, the celebration and birthday of Gautama conviction, after which the case was In the 1920s, the National Association Beaziyt Worcou is a Narrm-based use of the flag as an instrument for Buddha. The ban was implemented taken to the Supreme Court. The court for the Advancement of Coloured graphic designer living and working political resistance garners intense after Diem had labelled Buddhism an held that Johnson, or any US citizen, People (NAACP) began flying a flag on lands of the Wurundjeri people. and passionate attention. The association not a religion, restricting its could not be convicted for burning a outside of its Manhattan headquarters She completed a Bachelor of relationship between the flag and flag right to fly a flag. That summer amidst US flag as it was considered an act in New York. The black flag with Communication Design at Monash bearer becomes almost symbiotic. protests against the ban, nine civilians of symbolic speech and therefore capitalised white text read: A MAN Art Design and Architecture in 2016. The flag speaks for and embodies were shot and killed by government protected by the First Amendment. The WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY. The flag Beaziyt currently makes work with the aspirations of its people and, in officials. Following these deaths mass case had a lasting impact, as it led to appeared outside the headquarters No Clients, a design studio founded turn, the people, rooted in notions protests erupted, student walkouts, the invalidation of the prohibition of every time a black person was lynched with Samuel Heatley, Robert Janes of patriotism or self-determination, mass fasting and strikes occurred. flag desecration as a criminal offence – which in the 1920s was not a rare and Ned Shannon. No Clients display and protect the flag as if it has At the height of the political tension in in 48 out of 50 states. occurence. The flag was a reminder focus on commercial and non- an innate connection to their identity. Saigon, monks informed US journalists to those living on the east coast of the commercial design projects, with that something important would be 3. The Hungarian Revolution ongoing racial violence that continued a particular interest in publishing, Through my research I have stumbled happening the following morning In October 1956, during the Hungarian to take place in the Deep South. In modes of production, research upon a number of instances where outside of the Cambodian Embassy. revolution against Soviet rule, 1938, after the threat of eviction from and collaboration. flags have played a key role in the It was here that Thích Quang Ðuc lit a thousands of protesters gathered the landlord, the NAACP was forced unfolding of political situations; here, match and set himself alight in what around a statue of Józef Bem, a to stop flying the flag. I focus on four historical events that in became one of the most harrowing Polish engineer and national hero of Footnotes some way demonstrate the subversive protests of the 1960s. Poland and Hungary. Situated at the Upon undertaking this research I’ve and emancipatory capacity of the flag. centre of the crowd, a man named continued to think about flags and [1] Whitney Smith, Flags through the 2. Texas v. Johnson Peter Veres, who was president of their significance, as well as why ages and across the world (New York: 1. Thích Quang Đuc In 1984, during the Republican National the writers’ union, led a reading from I was driven to write about them in McGraw-Hill, 1976): 1– 56. On June 11, 1963, a young Vietnamese Convention in Texas, Gregory Lee a manifesto. Among the demands, a the first place, and something perhaps [2] Ibid.: 1– 56. Image credit Hungarian Flag with coat of arms cut out of centre, 1956. Image courtesy of The American Hungarian Federation Declaration http://www.americanhungarian federation.org/. Kiosk, Beaziyt BW Worcou 2 Kiosk, Hope HLB Lumsden-Barr y 1 Image credit Hope Lumsden-Barry, Diagram A: Exhibitions (how they operate) & Diagram B: Exhibitions (what they can do) 2018. Op-Ed: A case for more shows the processes of considered display White Space, a series of classes. who’s been to an exhibition opening The size of the design community in Hope Lumsden-Barry and active viewership. When I speak of These shows critically engaged with can tell you that the conversations Melbourne, for better or for worse, is ‘display’, I speak of the entire apparatus their subject matter, while actively there are rarely about the work small. Like-minded people inevitably Exhibitions communicate. To make of presentation. This includes the grappling with the problems that arise on display. And if they are, they’re cross paths; conversations have the an exhibition is to say something, for juxtapositions and explications when attempting to exhibit graphic often brief. While they strengthen potential to lead to collaborations. a reason. When you say something, that occur in exhibition spaces, the design within a gallery context. communities, they’re more like And, once we build a precedent for it leads to conversation. Graphic supporting text, positioning of objects, parties than forums. It’s the role of the exhibitions, they’ll hopefully become design is too often a silent profession, presentation, illumination and so A common criticism levelled at exhibition-makers (curators, exhibitors, part of the fabric of the community; like obediently led by the forces of on. The engaged viewer gives their graphic design exhibitions, particularly designers and so on) to ensure that bar meetups and talks. technology and dominant culture. attention to the exhibition, activating those in gallery spaces, is that they there are enough opportunities to Graphic designers are responsible, but the display, establishing the point strip the life from the objects on display. critically engage with the works. Ultimately, it’s imperative that we make rarely accountable, for large swathes of communication. Here, there is a Defined by context, helpless artefacts more space for critical conversations of the visual environment. Not only meeting between the knowledge of graphic design are yanked from their These opportunities take the form within our community. It’s a matter of that, reflective, critical discussions conveyed through the display and the true homes and stuffed helplessly of public programming, as well coming together, talking and doing. about our own industry are desperately previous experiences carried by the into vitrines, losing their meaning and as supporting materials such as infrequent.