December 12, 2023, 10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Microfestival by First-Year Students in the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Bard campus, various locations
CHRA presents Un/Besieged, a microfestival of artwork created by the first-year MA students in Human Rights and the Arts, as part of The Politics of Interactive Art course taught by Tania El Khoury. The two-day microfestival takes place throughout the campus, and includes interactive installations, performances, and sound work. Monday, Dec 11, 6:00–8:00 pm and Tuesday, Dec 12, 10:30 am – 5:00 pm.
Mon
11
December 11, 2023, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Microfestival by First-Year Students in the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Bard campus, various locations
CHRA presents Un/Besieged, a microfestival of artwork created by the first-year MA students in Human Rights and the Arts, as part of The Politics of Interactive Art course taught by Tania El Khoury. The two-day microfestival takes place throughout the campus, and includes interactive installations, performances, and sound work. Monday, Dec 11, 6:00–8:00 pm and Tuesday, Dec 12, 10:30 am – 5:00 pm.
November
Mon
13
November 13, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
OSUN's Center for Human Rights and the Arts and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School present a webinar with Sami Rustom and Kenan Darwich of Fehras Publishing Practices, who will share their research into the history and presence of publishing and its entanglement in the sociopolitical and cultural sphere in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora.Engaging various methods and modes [...]
October
Mon
30
October 30, 2023, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Sex, Cancer & Other Things My Mother Wishes I Never Had is a talk, performance, analysis and meditation on 20+ years living in a body which had cancer, healed from cancer, remained scarred from cancer, kept being questioned about cancer, worked with cancer, lost colleagues to cancer, a body which made cancer friends, lost cancer friends, taught on cancer, and ran away from teaching, living and breathing cancer. Content warning: [...]
Tue
17
October 17, 2023, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Talk by New Red Order Campus Center, Weis Cinema
“Do you want to realize your fullest potential? Be your truest self? Act with confidence? Attract abundance? Alleviate anxiety? Experience clarity? Know your purpose? Be the change you want to see? Be truly present? Experience real freedom? Change the world? Be a part of the solution?On some level, we all want to feel this way, but sometimes in our globalized, capitalist, settler-colonial society it feels impossible. Which is why [...]
Tue
17
October 17, 2023, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Campus Center, Weis Cinema 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY,
New Red Order (NRO) is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors, artists and filmmakers Jackson Polys, Adam Khalil ‘11, and Zack Khalil ‘14. Their work has appeared at Artists Space, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Lincoln Center, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Biennial, Walker Arts Center, and Whitney [...]
Tue
17
October 17, 2023, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Installation & Food Gathering by Juliana Steiner Bard Farm
CHRA Fellow Juliana Steiner presents an immersive sound installation at the Bard Farm, followed by a dinner and conversation. The sound installation Entre la danza y el Mambeo was created with members of the Ruak+ Jafaik+ and Kanasto de Abundancia collectives, based in the north-east Amazon of Colombia. The sounds are offerings to the land and function as natural fertilizers. Juliana will [...]
September
Fri
22
September 22, 2023, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Webinar talk by Guadalupe Maravilla Online Event
Guadalupe Maravilla will share his sculpture and sound healing practice and its connection to his personal history, including a journey as an unaccompanied migrant and healing from cancer. Guadalupe will discuss his Disease Thrower series, which are large sculptural works incorporating gongs used for sound ceremonies for cancer and immigrant communities. He will also explore his Retablo, Tripa Chuca series and the more recent sculpture [...]
Fri
22
September 22, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
12 PM New York l 6 PM ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents an online event with Guadalupe Maravilla, who will share his sculpture and sound healing practice and its connection to his personal history, including a journey as an unaccompanied migrant and healing from cancer. In this talk, Maravilla will discuss his Disease Thrower series,large sculptural works incorporating gongs used for sound ceremonies for cancer [...]
May
Fri
12
May 12, 2023, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Microfestival by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts Bard campus and Tivoli
Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of the final submission for the Collaborations [...]
Tue
09
May 9, 2023, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm
Microfestival by First-Year MA Students in Human Rights & the Arts Bard campus and Tivoli
Alluvial is a microfestival of artwork created by the first year M.A. students in the Human Rights & the Arts program at Bard College. The microfestival takes place at various times and locations on campus and in Tivoli on Tuesday, May 9 and Friday, May 12, and includes multidisciplinary works, installations, performances, live art, interactive work, and film. These works in progress are part of the final submission for the Collaborations [...]
April
Thu
27
April 27, 2023 – May 7, 2023,
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown
The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic [...]
Wed
26
April 26, 2023, 6:00 pm
Olin Humanities, Room 102
At the end of the global Cold War, South Korea’s new martial law-regime instituted in 1980 suppressed a citizen’s uprising in the city of Gwangju, resulting in the loss of an estimated 2,000 lives in the span of a week. While the access to the truth of the Gwangju Uprising (now widely known as “5.18”) was limited for most citizens of South Korea at the time, those living in Germany, Japan, and the US could view photographic [...]
Wed
12
April 12, 2023, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Film/Lecture performance and discussion with Sabine El Chamaa Upstate Films, Rhinebeck
A film script is an unfinished work, a ghost that seeks to inhabit a form. Where do the characters that are conceived for years, but that fail to find their bodies in an image, reside?In December 1999, a recent film school graduate moves from Los Angeles to New York City. With a fiction film script in hand, she is convinced it will turn into a film within the year. Her second draft is shaped by the relentlessness of the city and her long [...]
Mon
10
April 10, 2023, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Talk by Alya Karame Olin Hall
After capturing the city of Mosul in December 2014, the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) burned the university library destroying hundreds of thousands of books and manuscripts. The collections included Qur’ans, one of which was from the ninth century.. Like other episodes of our times, this performance reflects a certain engagement with the Qur’an that revives historically rooted debates related to the materiality [...]
Mon
03
April 3, 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Film screening, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and Lara Fresko Madra Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Set Off [Gitmek] (2019, 60 min.) is a documentary film by Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun with testimony on how to deal with recording the present in the aftermath of the Suruç bombing which took the life of 33 and injured 103 socialist students who were about to set off to bring humanitarian aid to Rojava in the summer of 2015. The screening will also include selections from Material Aesthetic Research Collective’s [...]
March
Tue
28
March 28, 2023, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Julia Bacha, 2021 Campus Center, Weis Cinema
Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 34 states passed laws intending to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints. As this wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, [...]
Mon
27
March 27, 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Film screening, with introduction by Lara Fresko Madra and Thomas Keenan Campus Center, Weis Cinema
The Lonely Trees (2017, 43 min) is a documentary about the “dengbej,” who carry the heritage of music, poetry, and storytelling in the semi- autonomous region of Rojava.This event is part of Archival Collective Counter–Imagination, a two-part series curated by art historian and current CHRA Fellow Lara Fresko Madra.The series brings together two collective endeavors —the Rojava Film Commune and the Material Aesthetic [...]
February
Fri
24
February 24, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Online Event
12 PM New York l 6 PM ViennaThe OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts presents a talk by artist Baha Hilo on the significance, history, and place of olive trees in Palestine, as well as the different methods used by the state of Israel to destroy this ancestral staple and tradition.Olive trees have been a major part of Hilo’s practice as an educator and community organizer. Hilo will share his project Preserve, [...]
Fri
10
February 10, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Webinar talk by Danielle Purifoy Online Event
This talk examines how the contemporary timber industry reproduces plantation power. It explores the “remote control” of land — such as absentee land ownership, Black family land grabs, new markets for energy, and legal regimes designed to “devalue” common property in favor of individual ownership and profit. Multi-generation Black homeplaces and communities, rooted in alternative modes of land relations, sustain [...]
