京都市立芸術大学ギャラリー@KCUA

Tania El Khoury is an artist who creates interactive installations and performances that transform through audience interaction, exploring themes such as collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity. Internationally acclaimed for her work, El Khoury is also actively involved in the field of education as a director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (CHRA) at Bard College. In this talk, she discusses her artistic practice, which engages with themes such as state power, displacement, and national borders.

Guest:
Tania El Khoury

Host:
Mizuho Fujita (Chief curator/Program Director, KCUA Art Gallery)

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Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury is a live artist who creates interactive installations and performances that reflect on the production of collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity. Her work is activated by tactile, auditory and visual materials collected and curated by the artist and her collaborators, ultimately transformed through audience interaction. El Khoury’s work engages questions of displacement, border systems, privatization, state violence, and the politics of space. She is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessie Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award. She served as a member of the ANTI Festival Advisory Board and is currently serving on the Advisory Board of The Centre for Art and the Political Imaginary. Her work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 35 countries across six continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. Tania is Distinguished Artist in Residence and Associate Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College in New York where she is also the founding director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts. She holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. She is associated with Forest Fringe collective of artists in the UK and is a founding member of the urban research and live art collective in Lebanon, Dictaphone Group.

Photo: Nour Annan