CHRA is hosting a screening and discussion on Monday, April 3, 5pm, at Weis Cinema, as part of Archival Collective Counter–Imagination, a two-part program curated by art historian and current […]
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. […]
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 […]
The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition, featuring the capstone projects of the Class of 2023. Tracing […]
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 […]
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 […]
Guadalupe Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Co-presented with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, Fehras Publishing Practices will present an online lecture performance, performed by Sami Rustom and Nancy Nasr […]
Juliana Steiner is an independent curator and researcher from Bogotá interested in interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art that incorporate social sciences, pedagogy, architecture and long-term projects with communities. Her research […]
CHRA presents Un/Besieged, a microfestival of artwork created by the first-year M.A. students in Human Rights & the Arts, as part of The Politics of Interactive Art course taught by […]
CHRA presents Un/Besieged, a microfestival of artwork created by the first-year M.A. students in Human Rights & the Arts, as part of The Politics of Interactive Art course taught by […]
While streets around the world remain sites of mobilization and solidarity for Palestine, many cultural institutions have chosen to reproduce colonial politics of repression. They employ intimidation, using the cancellation […]
In Magic of the Mundane, artist Robin Frohardt traces the development of her multidisciplinary practices. From puppet shows to short films and immersive theater, Frohardt discusses how she uses mundane […]
Molemo Moiloa discusses the notion of becoming ungovernable in an effort to tap into our capacities to form new worlds in times of collapse. She shares her interdisciplinary contemporary practice, […]
Unsettled is a lecture performance by scholar and filmmaker Argyro Nicolaou that explores the fast-changing landscapes of an island under occupation and her attempts to reconstruct her mother’s past. The […]
First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works in progress developed in their core requirement in art making, co-taught by artist Robin Frohardt and […]
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce Material As Witness, the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the […]
Alarm Phone (AF) is an activist network operating in Europe and Northern Africa, running a self-organized hotline for refugees and migrants in distress in the Mediterranean Sea since 2014. AF's […]
Unlearning Imperial Plunder I Un-Documented is a film essay on the strong connection between the plundered objects in European museums and the calls of asylum seekers trying to enter the […]
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay invites the audience to stay at the threshold of the museum in order to recognize the impossibility of decolonizing museums without decolonizing the world. Refusing to study […]
Online Panel by Tareq Baconi, Aslı Ü. Bâli, and Shay Hazkani Moderated by Ziad Abu-Rish This panel explores how the Hamas-led attack on October 7 and the Israeli war on […]
Land dispossession in settler colonies was rooted in the assertion of colonial sovereignty, which empowered settlers to re-territorialize Indigenous lands and create a regime of private ownership. This talk explores […]
CHRA’s collaboration with Alarm Phone (AP) through the Activism in Process program has culminated in a book by AP activists, marking ten years of the network’s life-saving work. The publication […]
Film by Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo. Set against the backdrop of the worst European migrant crisis since WWII, It Will Be Chaos unfolds between Italy and the Balkan corridor. Five […]
CHRA presents Elegies, a microfestival of artwork created by the first-year M.A. students in Human Rights & the Arts, as part of The Politics of Interactive Art course taught by […]
Amar Kanwar's films and multi-media works explore the politics of power, violence, and justice. His multi-layered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterized by […]
Ecotono: revoluciones silenciosas (Ecotone: Silent Revolutions) is an editorial and research project that compiles the reflections of the curatorial project Ecotone: Chagras, Payaos, Camellones, as part of Common Ground, the […]
How do artists, comedians, and performers respond to crises? What tools and opportunities do comedy and laughter offer political and social movements in their confrontations with fascism and supremacy? Comedian […]
An ‘expert witness geomancer mystic’ unites the forensic, spatial, and mystical elements of a place, giving testimony to concealed histories while constructing profound truths. They go beyond interpreting land to […]
First-year MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts present works in progress developed in class, led by artists Robin Frohardt and Oscar Gardea. These works reflect […]
The MA Program at the Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce the thesis exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts, Class of 2025. […]
