Should Theatre Be Censored? - Exibit B Discussion

In today's lesson we debated the live art exhibition, 'Exhibit B' with the class & whether art in general should be censored, including what the piece involved. My opinion on the matter is that politics & misinformation led to confusion that inevitably clouded what the art meant. Art should never be censored, in any form as it is a freedom of expression. By regulating this subject with control & regulation you are stripping the individual of public free thought & discussion. Removing all pre-conceptual idea of what 'art' is as a medium, by removing what it is supposed to mean, life. Art is the simple expression of one human (or non-human) thing to others in order to engage them either with the piece in question or with themselves. Censoring this process & removing exhibitions that may force people to question themselves as well as others is removing the individual state of being. 'Exhibit B' was the expression of the lives of those repressed at this time & what it looks like against modern society, both in value & in society. The fact that a group threatened violence if this piece was to be staged shows that there was some miscommunication down the line of what this piece was. Highlighting the injustice through this period in a smart & affecting way, that doesn't tend itself to simple ingested belief. I think that 'Exhibit B' highlighted to me that censorship is always the wrong decision with art & that people just need to be able to apply the correct measure of thought to understand the perception of a piece such as this. Without the recognition by these people that protested the piece that their world view will be questioned & altered by art there can be no form of societal change. This stems into education & the way people need to see the world as not just one shade, rather a plethora of different strokes together & I just hold the hope that that will come one day for these people. Until that day, art must hold strong underneath & never bend to the will of the ignorant.