UNDERCOOKED Works by MA in Human Rights & the Arts
Undercooked features works-in-progress by the current MA students at the Center for Human Rights and the Arts. Developed as part of their practice-based core course with Tania El Khoury this […]
Activism in Process: Projects from Afghanistan, Puerto Rico, and Tunisia
Join us for a panel discussion with CHRA’s current collaborators in “Activism in Process”. CHRA collaborates annually with a group of activists and organizers who are leading grassroots efforts in […]
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Activism and Freedom in Egypt
CHRA is hosting the launch & discussion of Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s newly published book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated on Wednesday, April 27th, 5:00pm EDT at Weis Cinema, […]
Hunt & Gather: Work in Progress by MA students
The inaugural cohort of eleven MA students developed work-in-progress as a part of “Collaborations & Community,” a course taught by the Center’s director Dr. Tania El Khoury. The collaborative creative […]
Mirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3,000 Years (Part of Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure)
CHRA will be screening Mirt Sost Shi Amit / Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima on Tuesday, April 5th, 5:30pm EDT at Weis Cinema, Bard College. The event […]
Films by Ateyyat El Abnoudy (Part of Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure)
CHRA will be screening four short films by Egyptian filmmaker Ateyyat El Abnoudy on Tuesday, March 29th, 12pm EDT on Zoom (link). The event is free and open to the […]
Films by Omar Amiralay (Part of Imaging Land, Labor, and Infrastructure)
CHRA will be screening three short films by Syrian filmmaker Omar Amiralay on Thursday, March 17th, 7:45pm EDT at Upstate Films, Rhinebeck NY. The event is free and open to […]
Layli Long Soldier: My Art is a Being: Building a Relationship to Art through Agreement, Ethics, and Pleasure
By understanding our art as a being with whom we create a relationship, Layli Long Soldier explores the ways in which we can make commitments and agreements with our writing […]
Mohammed El-Kurd: “Bombs, women, children, etc”: Humanization, Victimhood, and the Politics of Appeal
For decades, well-meaning journalists and cultural workers used a humanizing framework in their representation of oppressed people, in hopes of countering the traditional portrayal of the Palestinian as a “terrorist.” […]
Putting the Cooker on Low
World premiere of a CHRA digital commission, featuring a Q&A with artist Ama Josephine Budge and writer Dr. Chelsea M. Frazier, moderated by Dr. J.T. Roane (Arizona State University). Putting […]
Khar va Attar خار وعطار : The Thorn and the Healers
World premiere of a CHRA digital commission and a text by Dr. Manijeh Moradian, featuring a Q&A with artist Amitis Motevalli. For Khar va Attar, the artist takes on the […]
Kendall Thomas: Taking (A)part: Human Rights, Human Rites, “Human Writes”
In Taking (A)part: Human Rights, Human Rites and “Human Writes,” Kendall Thomas revisits “Human Writes,” a 2005 performance-installation about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on which he collaborated with […]
Bhenji Ra: Everything at Once: Permaculture, abolition, and trans love
How do we exist in complexity and contradiction? Can we mourn and celebrate all at once? In a world focused on binaries, where do we find power on the edges? […]