The Australia Council is attempting to get a court order that may force an artist to stump up a down payment on its sizeable legal costs, in a two-year court battle over the national arts funding body dropping its support for a performance documenting self-insemination.
Lawyers for the performance artist Casey Jenkins told the federal court the council’s application for a “security for costs” order appeared to be based on a cynical and misguided premise, and the body was covered by commonwealth government insurance to fight the case.
