Chicago Maroon Review of Summit
Brooke Nagler of the Chicago Maroon reviews the summit, What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights?
What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? is a multi-day summit taking place April 29 and May 1, 2017 hosted by the University of Chicago and composed of a group of distinguished international artists who will propose, examine, and challenge the ways in which creative cultural resistance can broaden our collective understanding of human rights.
Brooke Nagler of the Chicago Maroon reviews the summit, What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights?
Susan Gzesh (Pozen Family Center for Human Rights) and Carlos Javier Ortiz (photographer, filmmaker, summit artist) discuss What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? on WBEZ's Worldview. Listen to their interview with Jerome McDonnell and Nari Safavi.
The Columbia Chronicle previews What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? Read the full article by Kendrah Villiesse.
The upcoming summit What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? and its accompanying exhibition In Acts is addressed in Newcity. The article considers how the summit and its accompanying exhibition at Weinberg / Newton Gallery work toward social justice through artistic engagement. Read the full article by Elliot J. Reichert.
What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? — the upcoming, multi-day summit — featured in UChicago News.
"In tracing, documenting, revealing and representing refugee history beyond the narrative of suffering and displacement, Refugee Heritage is an attempt to imagine and practice refugeeness beyond humanitarianism." What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? participant Alessandro Petti (DAAR) authors "Refugee Heritage" for e-flux. This publication opens up the complexities often hidden within typical refugee histories generated by narratives of suffering and displacement.
Berlin International Film Festival to feature "Tania Libre", a documentary by Lynn Hershman Leeson that centers on Tania Bruguera's approach to art making, and her experience as a political prisoner in Cuba. Bruguera is a core participant in the April 29 - May 1 summit at the University of Chicago, What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights?
Jelili Atiku, one of the summit artists for What is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights?, has been announced as an exhibiting artist in this year's Venice Biennale. Read more on the Biennale and Jelili's participation.