Institutions and Resistance - Alliances for Art at Risk, the two-day symposium hosted by ZKM Karlsruhe and Artists at Risk (AR) 11-12.2.2022.

🎤 The second day will begin with Section II on the topic of »Institutions as Resistance« at 4PM CET, kicking off with a conversation between members of ruangrupa, Reza Asung Afisina and Farid Rakun, and Artists at Risk (AR) Co-founding Directors, Marita Muukkonen and Ivor Stodolsky. ruangrupa is a curatorial collective of Documenta15 opening in September 2022. Visit https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/. More about ruangrupa https://ruangrupa.id/en/

🗣️ Moderated by Vivienne Chow, the panel discussion will include Timea Junghaus (director of the ERIAC), Hrag Vartanian, (editor and co-founder of Hyperallergic), Elisabet Goula Sardà (Head of Debates at the CCCB), and Gitte Zschoch (the General Secretary of the ifa).

📽️Watch and listen to video statements by Jessica de Abreu, Ehsan Fardjadniya, Mariam Ghani, Katherine Schofield, Waldemar Tatarczuk

Artistic interventions by 🎶Leyla Yenirce (Empty House, music and visuals) and 🎼Satch Hoyt (Oblation Unmuted, sonic performance and visuals) will be presented during this section.

More info & full list of participants 👉 https://s.zkm.de/BHYX. Participant bios can be found at: https://cutt.ly/TOI874a

Join the event: https://zkm.de/en/livestream, AR FB and youtube: https://cutt.ly/7OKVLew

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documenta fifteen

documenta fifteen will take place from June 18 until September 25, 2022 in Kassel. The Jakarta-based artists’ collective ruangrupa is the Artistic Direction.

The world-renowned filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf appeals to Finland in Helsingin Sanomat:

“The Taliban are secretly killing people in Afghanistan all the time. The whole nation cannot be evacuated, but the filmmakers, poets, dancers, journalists and others on our lists are in the greatest danger. Open even one door for one person! ”

Read the interview here: https://dia.so/5zo (in Finnish)

Find a google-translated version here: https://www-hs-fi.translate.goog/kulttuuri/art-2000008506365.html?fbclid=IwAR3bthITlblC0sgy5y1h44Hkn0beVZXYl5PTtzAtvIBedbS2N1hW-Paqh8s&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Mohsen Makhmalbaf has been working closely with Artists at Risk (AR), coordinating lists and securing visas to #SaveAfghanArtists – one of whom will shortly be announced as AR’s first resident at AR-Goa, India.

Special thanks to Harri Römpötti for bringing this to a wider audience.

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Elokuvat | ”Taleban tappaa ihmisiä salaa koko ajan” – Maailmankuulu iranilaisohjaaja yrittää pelastaa Afganistanin taiteilijoita, ja nyt hänellä on tärkeä viesti myös suomalaisille

Elokuvaohjaaja Mohsen Makhmalbaf joutui kotimaassaan Iranissa vangituksi ja kidutetuksi, ja pakeni Afganistaniin vuonna 2005. Nyt hän haluaa auttaa Afganistanissa vaarassa olevia taiteilijoita.

Today, Artists at Risk (AR) joins the United Nations and the rest of the international community in celebrating Human Rights Day under the theme: “Reducing inequalities, advancing human rights”. Today more than ever we must send a clear message that we are all human, all equal.

Join our #SaveAfghanArtists campaign!

Show your solidarity help us amplify the voices of Afghanistan’s brave artists and creatives who have been forced into a life of fear and silence by transmitting their words and images to the widest possible public

To participate, simply:
1️⃣ Photograph yourself holding a sign with your profession. If you are not at risk yourself, please SHOW YOUR FACE. If you wish, you can also state your name and/or title.
2️⃣ Share on social media using the hashtag #SaveAfghanArtists and tagging @artistsatrisk
3️⃣ Nominate 2 other people to take part!

Help us in our fight to protect the rights of creatives in Afghanistan -and all around the world.
As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Without concerted citizen action to uphold [human rights] close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world”.

We are all human, all equal.

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