Item Archive: human rights
All items pertaining to human rights
Welcoming Mohamed Jawad Husein Hameed, AR’s first Ecologist at Risk (ER)
We warmly welcome Mohamed Jawad Husein Hameed, a Bahraini musician and singer, as our first Artist and Ecologist at Risk Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki on the island of Suomenlinna in Helsinki. Jawad is an activist, focused on environmental … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, ancient musical instrument, ar-safe haven residency, artists at risk, Bahrain, ecologists, ecologists at risk, ecology, environment, freedom of expression, helsinki, hiap, human rights, jawad, Jawad Hameed, lyre, MENA, Middle East, Mohamed Jawad Hameed, perpetuum mobile, pollution, risk, suomenlinna
Barıs Seyitvan welcomed to the Artists at Risk (AR)-ZKM | Karlsruhe Residency
We are very happy to announce that Artists at Risk (AR) has secured a year-long, two-part AR-Residency in Germany for the curator and artist Barış Seyitvan. Following his AR-Residency in Helsinki and a bridging period in Belgrade, Seyitvan has arrived … Continue reading
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Tagged Artists at Risk (AR), Baris, baris seyitvan, germany, human rights, Karlsruhe, Perpetuuum Mobile, turkey, ZKM Center for Arts and meduia
Free Musician Rami Sidky – Held in Egyptian prison since 2018 – Artists at Risk
Rami Sidky, a 33-year old guitarist and musician from Cairo (Egypt) has been languishing in jail since May 2018. The Egyptian judiciary continues to hold Rami without clear charges. His supposed crime? Alleged participation in a song critical of the … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, AR, Egyptian revolution, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, human rights, open letter, Rami Sidky
PRESS: Will Silence be Golden When Our Freedoms Are Gone?
Source: Collecteur, Dorian Batycka January. 2019 PRESS TEXT: Will Silence Be Golden When Our Freedoms Are Gone? The origin of the word “censor” can be traced to the office of censor established in Rome 443 BCE. While free speech and … Continue reading
PRESS: The Challenges of Being a Syrian Artist Today by Ari Akkermans
SOURCE: Hyperallergic Ari Akkermans 19.07.2018 PRESS TEXT: The Challenges of Being a Syrian Artist Today Once artists leave Syria many find that international borders are closed to them as they try to build a professional and creative life in exile. … Continue reading
PRESS: Barcelona buscarà protecció a l’estranger per als artistes amb causes judicials obertes by Roger Torres i Liñán
SOURCE: Beteve Roger Torres i Liñán 05.06.2018 PRESS TEXT: Barcelona buscarà protecció a l’estranger per als artistes amb causes judicials obertes Gerardo Pisarello i Jaume Asens es reuneixen amb el raper condemnat Pablo Hasel i entitats a favor de la … Continue reading
PRESS: Ser Jakobstad som självklar fristad: “Vi har en stor humanitet här” by JESSICA POIKKIJOKI
SOURCE: Österbottens Tidning JESSICA POIKKIJOKI 18.05.2018 PRESS TEXT: Ser Jakobstad som självklar fristad: “Vi har en stor humanitet här” Foto: Jessica Poikkijoki Svenska Karin Hansson och turkiska Baran Caginli lyssnar medan Marita Muukkonen berättar om situationen i Finland vad gäller intresset bland … Continue reading
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo: first AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident
Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo is a human rights and democracy activist, writer and artist based in the mining town of Kwekwe, in central Zimbabwe. From 9 January to 8 April 2018 he will be the first AR-Safe Haven Berlin Resident. This … Continue reading
Posted in AR-Artist Bios, Map
Tagged #aralumnus, activism, AR, ar resident, ar safe haven berlin, artists at risk, democracy, dictatorship in zimbawe, human rights, law, Makonde star, mugabe, nkosilathi emmanuel moyo, perpetual mobile, perpetuum mobile, political persecution, re-aligned, realigned, regime, republic of zimbawe, revolution, robert mugabe, Safe Haven, SAVVY Contemporary, singer, status quo, z.o.y.p, zimbawe
PRESS: Top 10: Art in Central Europe 2017
TEXT re: Adrift Further East: Dispatches from 2017 Curator and critic Dorian Batycka reflects on 2017, a year that saw him pivot away from Western Europe in search of aesthetics less familiar… source: blokmagazine.com (…) April – Athens, Greece I discovered Artists at … Continue reading
Posted in AR Pavilion, NEWS, Press Reports
Tagged Aleppo, AR, AR Pavilion, ar resident, ar-safe haven residency, artists at risk, artists rights, Athens Biennale, athens collateral, Erkan Özgen, human rights, Issa Touma, perpetual mobile, perpetuum mobile, Pınar Öğrenci, pm, press, press release, Safe Haven, wonderland