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PRESS RELEASE: Artists at Risk (AR) presents: 2 x Pussy Riot + ORLAN = Fem-Wise-Dom
Artists at Risk (AR) presents 2 x Pussy Riot + ORLAN = Fem-Wise-Dom a performance In the context of a day of celebrations at 210 Rue Saint-Denis on 14-15 January This Friday, three feminists icons will come together on a … Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Masha Alekhina of Pussy Riot designated first “AR-Resident Prisoner”
BREAKING: On Thursday 16 December 2021, Masha was arrested from her front door in an unmarked car and given a further arbitrary 15-day sentence for a post about President Lukashenko of Belarus from 2015. Press Release Masha Alekhina of Pussy Riot … Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Desperate Afghan artists and creatives appeal to world leaders for rescue
PRESS RELEASE Communiqué de Presse en français PRESSEMITTEILUNG auf deutsch 6 December 2021 For Immediate Release Desperate Afghan artists and creatives appeal to world leaders for rescue Artists at Risk (AR) has been entrusted with a desperate and powerful letter … Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Premiere of Andrei Kureichik’s new documentary play, Voices of New Belarus, in Ukraine
Source: Andrei Kureichik Press text (translated from Russian to English) Dear friends, journalists, colleagues, let me share wonderful news with you. The premiere of Andrei Kureichik’s new documentary play Voices of New Belarus took place in the context of the … Continue reading
Open letter: Human Rights and Culture Groups call for Release of Mustafa Gamal
8 May 2020 We, the undersigned, call for the immediate release of Mustafa Gamal from prison in Egypt. His imprisonment in pre-trial detention is an egregious instance of the Egyptian government’s continuing crackdown on freedom of expression, in violation of … Continue reading
BREAKING NEWS! Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!
2 March 2020 BREAKING NEWS Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!! Congratulations! Welcome back! ——– Artists at Risk (AR) has long been advocating for the release and just treatment of Fatoş İrwen (bio page). Since 2016, İrwen faced … Continue reading
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