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Cutting-Edge Human Rights & the Arts Program Offers Students from Conflict Zones a Path to Art-Making
Human Rights and the Arts student Carol Montealgre (left) pictured at a performance by Palestine Hosting Society. Photo by Mirna Bamieh.
ARTnews recently published an article by
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
about the
Center for Human Rights and the Arts'
(CHRA) inaugural class of students graduating with an MA in Human Rights and the Arts from Bard College Annandale. She explains how the interdisciplinary program, which examines the intersection between human rights and the arts through both academic and professional lenses, supports mature activists and artists from across the globe who live in ongoing crisis zones or who have experienced persecution. "..(T)his program is meant to push back exactly on the thinking that access to art and scholarship is only for people with excess capital lying around," she writes.
“The idea was to create a space in which both the artists and activists could be together and co-create,” says
Tania El Khoury
, a performance artist and the Director of CHRA. “It was important to create an institution that really practices its politics. How can we build a space that puts people’s well-being first? How can we be in solidarity with people from around the world and understand inequality together?”
“I was applying to programs in Europe because I knew I couldn’t afford an expensive program [in the States],” says
Carol Montealgre
, an artist from Bogotá, Colombia working in performance, installation, and video and who just graduated from the program. “I had a friend who recommended the Center but I wasn’t applying because of the money, but he told me, ‘They got funding from OSUN, they have scholarships, stipends.’ Those were the magic words.”
Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1
The Center for Human Rights and the Arts first published volume, Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1, is now available.
CHRA has also published its first book,
Through the Ruins: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1
, edited by
Fawz Kabra
and documenting the work of contemporary activists, scholars, and artists from around the globe who have presented public talks at the Center. The book explores the range of contemporary practices at the intersection of human rights and the arts and contributors include
Ashmina Ranjit, Border Forensics, Cassils, Emily Johnson, Faustin Linyekula, Hamed Sinno, Mark Sealy,
and
the White Pube
. Educators can order a copy for free from
Polina Malikin
and the book can be purchased online at
Bookshop
,
Amazon
,
Barnes & Noble
.
Post Date:
06-09-2023