M.I.A. previously announced that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be speaking at this year’s Meltdown Festival, which she curated. Now, more details on Assange’s involvement have been revealed. M.I.A. will host a talk with Assange (who will appear remotely over a live link), along with philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Srećko Horvat. The discussion, titled “What’s Coming Next,” will “cover the complexities of global activism and art in a changing world,” according to a rep for the festival’s venue. The talk will go down from 10:30-11:45 a.m. on June 11 at the Weston Roof Pavilion of the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre.
After it was announced last month that Swedish authorities were dropping its investigation of sexual assault by Assange, M.I.A. penned an impassioned statement defending him. She recently shared a new song, “GOALS.”
Read “M.I.A. vs. the System: A Complete Timeline of Her Controversies” and “The Survivor: A Conversation With M.I.A.”
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