Moderated by Outland Art’s Editor in Chief, Brian Droitcour, this conversation explored theater and roleplay as original forms of simulation—including how performativity works as a tool to rehearse new organizing models for liberation and community care. The conversation featured Caro Murphy and theater artist/educator Tania El Khoury. The panelists discussed how theater makers can offer audiences the conceptual building blocks necessary to imagine and play-test new futures. Available for all via livestream, Studio DEMO is a broadcast hub featuring NEW INC’s wider creative community. Broadcasts take many forms, including talks, demonstrations, couch conversations, panel discussions, DJ sets, and more.
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Across Syria, many gardens conceal the dead bodies of activists and protestors who adorned the streets during the early periods of the uprising. These domestic burials play out a continuing collaboration between the living and the dead. The dead protect the living by not exposing them to further danger at the hands of the regime. The living protect the dead by conserving their identities, telling their stories, and not allowing their deaths to become instruments of the regime. Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation that toured around the world. It contains the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves would have recounted it. This book contains the narrative text of those ten oral histories in both English and spoken Arabic. It includes an […]
Live artist Tania El Khoury discusses her creative process, the ways audience participation cultivates solidarity and awareness of social justice issues, her role as the director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College, and the intersection of art and activism in her work.
Un repas de noce sans lumière, c’est exaspérant. Partant de ce fait réel, l’artiste libanaise Tania El Khoury mène avec son mari une enquête sur les coupures d’électricité très fréquentes dans son pays. Cela se traduit par The Search for Power, une performance à l’affiche du Belluard.
Two art professionals, Tania El Khoury and Laura Raicovich discuss the uncomfortable truths about institutional self-censorship and the critical work currently being done to reinvigorate cultural spaces in “Compromise and Action: Participating in a Global Art World.”
Artist Tania El Khoury joins the Rail contributor Laurel V. McLaughlin for a conversation.
Audience members are immersed in the sounds, sights and artifacts of lost and rediscovered family, border crossings and survival. A Review by Farah Abdessamad.