CHRA director Tania El Khoury’s artwork is the subject of a newly-published edited volume. Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production (Amherst College Press) is co-edited by Laurel V. McLaughlin and Carrie Robbins, and examines El Khoury’s live art practice.
The edited volume features several analyses of El Khoury’s artistic works, and contributes to an increasingly comprehensive methodology for evaluating artworks engaged with border-crossings, migration, and place-based artistic activism. Contributing authors include: political scientist Samer Abboud, archeologist Jennie Bradbury, archivist and researcher Sue Breakell, professors of social work David Byers & Anan Fareed, art historian Sascha Crasnow, anthropologist Beth Derderian, Anna Gallagher-Ross with Ron Berry, Kate Craddock, Lisa Kraus, and curator Gideon Lester, writer Kinana Issa, theater and performance scholar Olivia Lamont-Bishop, literary scholars Azade Seyhan, and cultural worker Talia Shiroma.
The volume explores several themes of El Khoury’s body of work, including border crossings (between forms of artistic practice, between artists and audiences, and between art and activism), collaborations with artists and performers who are themselves revolutionaries, migrants, and refugees, and testing the boundaries of aesthetic, political, and everyday norms.
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Tania El Khoury is the director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts as well as a Distinguished Artist in Residence in the Theater and Performance Program at Bard College.
She is a live artist whose interactive installations and performances reflect on the production of collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity.