November 15, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
12 pm New York l 6 pm ViennaWhat is “gore capitalism” and how does it turn into “snuff politics” in the borderlands between Tijuana and San Diego? OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts invites network members to a talk with Sayak Valencia, who will discuss examples of audiovisual devices and virtual social networks that challenge the regime of truth through what she calls “the livestreaming [...]
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November 1, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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12 PM New York l 5 PM ViennaHow does a writer find her voice? And how does she locate herself among the power structures that operate in the world around her?OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts invites network members to a discussion with Githa Hariharan, who examines the writer’s struggle to enlarge the small space occupied by an individual life. She describes the project of giving voice to a mosaic of voices [...]
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October 18, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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12 PM New York l 6 PM PM ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents the world premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Brian Lobel and writer Season Butler, moderated by Jack Ferver (Bard College).Two friends and food makers share their recipes for healing, their personal histories and food journeys, and wider reflections on medicine versus the medicinal, knowledge versus expertise, [...]
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October 4, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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12 PM New York l 6 PM ViennaOSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents Lawrence Abu Hamdan's "Natq," a live audiovisual essay on the politics and possibilities of reincarnation. Through listening closely to “xenoglossy” (the impossible speech of reincarnated subjects), this performance explores a collectivity of lives who use reincarnation to negotiate their condition at the threshold of [...]
September
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September 20, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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12 pm New York l 6 pm ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Coco Fusco, an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a Professor of Art at Cooper Union.Fusco is the recipient of honors including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, Latinx Artist Fellowship, Rabkin Prize for Art Criticism, Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her performances and videos have been presented [...]
May
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May 7, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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12 pm New York l 6 pm ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Hamed Sinno, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.An analysis of several musical and literary texts by the band Mashrou Leila, as sites for negotiating the discursive boundaries of gender construction in the public sphere, and an attempt to frame the work within ongoing conversations about the limits of representation [...]
April
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April 30, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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12 pm New York l 6 pm ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Mark Sealy, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.Dr Mark Sealy MBE is interested in the relationships between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights. He has been director of London-based photographic arts institution Autograph ABP since 1991. He has produced numerous artist publications, [...]
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April 23, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Ashmina Ranjit, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series.Just because we’re born with a vagina, why accept that our family, society, and state continue treating us as unequal "beings"? Why do sexual violence, unequal rights, and inequities persist? Why do we need to rethink and reimagine intersections of gender, caste, class, and religion?I [...]
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April 16, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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In this presentation, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography project since 2011, which has focused on the Mediterranean frontier, they will discuss the strategies they have used to document traces of violent events and seek accountability for them. Reflecting on the effectiveness, but also [...]
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April 9, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
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The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Emily Johnson, part of the Artists and Activists lecture series. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an activist for justice, sovereignty and well-being.A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking / New York City. Emily is of the [...]
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April 2, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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The OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a webinar with Cassils, the third speaker in the Artists and Activists lecture series.In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely suited for our time. Reflecting on ten years of practice where they carve out strategies for trans [...]
March
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March 26, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Online Event
Zarina Muhammad from the influential UK-based art criticism collective, The White Pube, is the guest in OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts' second public talk.The White Pube is a collaboration between Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente, born out of the need for art writing that goes beyond the “just bad chat by middle class white men.” They use social media, audio recording, unconventional punctuation, [...]
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March 12, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College invites you to its inaugural public event, an online lecture by Faustin Linyekula entitled "Of Ruins and Responsibility." According to Linyekula, "This lecture will be (again) a dialogue with the ruins I inherited from my fathers, guided by the poet’s voice."Linyekula is a multi-award-winning dancer, choreographer, and director [...]
