November 15, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
What is “gore capitalism” and how does it turn into “snuff politics” in the borderlands between Tijuana and San Diego? Sayak Valencia discusses examples of audiovisual devices and virtual social networks that challenge the regime of truth through what she calls “the livestreaming regime.” Her talk considers how the contemporary body has become a platform for a new media-disseminated common[...]
Mon
01
November 1, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
How does a writer find her voice? And how does she locate herself among the power structures that operate in the world around her? In this talk, Githa Hariharan examines the writer’s struggle to enlarge the small space occupied by an individual life. She describes this as a project of giving voice to a mosaic of voices and their multiple narratives, mapped onto diverse locations. Using her own journey as a writer, and[...]
October
Mon
18
October 18, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
12 PM New York l 6 PM PM Vienna The 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[...]
Mon
04
October 4, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
The 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 that use reincarnation to negotiate their condition at the threshold of the law—people for whom[...]
September
Mon
20
September 20, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
In this talk, Coco Fusco offers some of her subjective observations about how artists in Cuba are part of social and political movements that address state repression and questions of social equity. She draws on concrete examples of individual artists and artistic movements whose practice revolves around public stagings and performances of political action.
May
Fri
07
May 7, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
In this talk, Hamed Sinno provides an analysis of several musical and literary texts by the band Mashrou Leila, of which he is the former lead singer and co-founder, 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 as a mode of political engagement.
April
Fri
30
April 30, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
In this talk, Mark Sealy will elaborate on how his curatorial work and scholarship examine how Western photographic practice has been used as a tool for creating Eurocentric and violent visual regimes. It uses the central principle of "decolonizing the camera," a process by which an analysis of photography takes place within and against the political and violent reality of Western imperialism. Through this process, Sealy[...]
Fri
23
April 23, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
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? In this talk, Ashmina Ranjit reflects on insights from her journey of resisting and interrogating the complex politics of Hindu patriarchy,[...]
Fri
16
April 16, 2021, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Online Event
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[...]
Fri
09
April 9, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
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 Yup’ik Nation, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances[...]
Fri
02
April 2, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Online Event
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 representation, they discuss tactics to educate, engage and agitate while attempting to balance and center love, community and relevant action.
March
Fri
26
March 26, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Online Event
The cultural sector has been resistant to change; it has held on to antiquated balances of power like no other area of society, and that rigidity has affected the way we distribute resources amongst ourselves within the creative industry. We have to radically restructure the way we do things. If we had the chance to terraform the arts landscape we’ve got, and become more expansive in what we do, where would we start? How do you go[...]
Fri
12
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[...]
