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.
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.
Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury examines the universal, never-ending story of migration through a family diary of the borders, and the recognition that the cruelest of borders are invisible to the eye and present in everyday life.
In conversation with live artist Tania El Khoury, we will discuss her art, the role of her audiences, and the political potential of her work: What does it mean to do interactive art? What are the politics of her work? What are the experiences of an Arab feminist artist exhibiting and performing around the world? This conversation is part of a joint CMES Brown University and the Middle East Institute at Columbia University series on gender, art, and body politics in the Middle East and its diasporas. The series examines intersecting inequalities and body politics expressed, represented, and transgressed in both visual and performance art.
Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury is known for her genre-bending interactive live artworks performed in unique spaces and concerned with the ethical and political potential of such encounters. El Khoury discusses her latest micro-theater work, As Far as Isolation Goes (Online), which explores the mental health of asylum seekers through one-on-one zoom performances, as well as other works that redefine the role of the audience as an active participant.
An introduction to the intimate performance of artists Jo Bannon, Tania El Khoury and Rosana Cade. Each artist introduces their artistic practice, with a specific focus on their intimate/one-to-one work, followed by a short Q&A. This talk took place over Zoom in January 2021, and was BSL interpreted. The talk and performance project was presented with partnership support from Contact Theatre and Islington Mill, and funded by Arts Council England.
Lavender Man is an online conversation between two artists Tania El Khoury and Mohamad Ali “Dali” Agrebi who have collaborated on three performances. Each performance happened in a different country and brought them closer. Their collaboration has changed their lives sometimes drastically and sometimes unintentionally. Lavender Man is a reflection on friendship, chosen families, the long effect of collaborative and community-based art, and the right of love and movement. The online screening of Lavender Man will be followed by a conversation between Tania El Khoury, Mohamad Ali “Dali” Agrebi, and Professor Harriet Hawkins. Commissioned and presented by performingborders and Foreign Actions Productions for PerformingbordersLIVE20. Supported by Live Art development Agency and Arts Council England.
The IDS Public Lecture Series consists of lectures by artists, theorists, activists, designers, writers, curators and other practitioners involved in the arts from positions that embody an interdisciplinary approach or that imply new uses for disciplinary traditions. Each lecture is part of The Cooper Union’s Intra-Disciplinary Seminar (IDS). The seminar and series are organized by Leslie Hewitt and Omar Berrada.
DRAFF publishes writing, imagery, and other material relating to the process of making performance, a living archive of developments in form. All material in DRAFF is contributed by artists working in theatre, dance and visual art. They regularly send their intrepid filmmaker José (also a DRAFF founder and theatre maker) to visit artists in their home city, to get inside the studio and their homes and record what they’re up to. They interviewed Live Artist Tania El Khoury as she was on residency in New York City.