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.
Since 2017, Tania has cocurated two editions of the Fisher Center LAB Biennial, both featuring commissions of her own artistic work.
Her work has been translated into multiple languages and shown globally in spaces ranging from national museums to fishing boats. 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), “Camp Pause: Stories from Rashidieh Camp and the Sea” (Jadaliyya), “Performing the Arab” (Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research), “The Scenography of The Revolution,” “Two Live Artists in the Theatre,” and “Swimming in Sewage, Political Performances in the Mediterranean” (all in Performance Research), and “We Are All Witnesses: The Arab Spring in Photos and Electronic Wars” as well as “Spaces and Bodies in Arab Revolutionary Art” (both in Journal of Palestine Studies).
Tania teaches performance, live art and spatial justice, audience interactivity, and the intersection of art and activism.