Tania El Khoury is the founding director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts as well as a Distinguished Artist in Residence and Associate Professor in Theater and Performance 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. Her work engages questions of displacement, border systems, privatization, and the politics of space. She served as a member of the ANTI Festival Advisory Board and is currently serving on the Advisory Board of The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and shown across six continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars.
Tania has cocurated three editions of the Fisher Center LAB festival. She is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award, the Bessie Outstanding Production Award, Soros Art Fellowship, International Live Art Prize, Total Theatre Innovation Award, and Arches Brick Award. She is cofounder of Dictaphone Group, an urban research and live art collective in Lebanon.
Tania holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications include The Search for Power and Gardens Speak (Tadween Publishing), and articles in Performance Research and Journal of Palestine Studies among others. She is the editor of CHRA's Talks on Human Rights & the Arts book series.
Tania teaches contemporary performance, live art and spatial justice, the politics of audience interactivity, and the intersection of art and politics.
She is a live artist whose interactive installations and performances reflect on the production of collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity. Her work engages questions of displacement, border systems, privatization, and the politics of space. She served as a member of the ANTI Festival Advisory Board and is currently serving on the Advisory Board of The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary. Her work has been translated into multiple languages and shown across six continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars.
Tania has cocurated three editions of the Fisher Center LAB festival. She is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award, the Bessie Outstanding Production Award, Soros Art Fellowship, International Live Art Prize, Total Theatre Innovation Award, and Arches Brick Award. She is cofounder of Dictaphone Group, an urban research and live art collective in Lebanon.
Tania holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications include The Search for Power and Gardens Speak (Tadween Publishing), and articles in Performance Research and Journal of Palestine Studies among others. She is the editor of CHRA's Talks on Human Rights & the Arts book series.
Tania teaches contemporary performance, live art and spatial justice, the politics of audience interactivity, and the intersection of art and politics.