OSUN Center for Human Rights and the Arts, OSUN, Human Rights Project, Human Rights Program, and Bard Graduate Programs Present
Tracing Apparitions
Runs through Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown
Inaugural Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts
The MA Program at the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts is pleased to announce its inaugural MA thesis exhibition. Titled Tracing Apparitions, the event will take place April 24 through May 7 across the Bard College campus as well as off-campus in Tivoli and Barrytown. The exhibition will feature installations, live performances, and written works by the graduating cohort produced as their capstone projects. The artistic and academic theses will take a variety of forms, making interventions at both the analytic and methodological levels of analysis. All thesis projects are based on original research by the students.A detailed schedule is forthcoming, including locations, viewing hours, and performance reservations. For now, we are pleased to present the names and works of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts Class of 2023:
Ali Al-Adawi, Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure
Nour Annan, The Golden Age Is Out of Joint: Photography, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Nostalgia in Lebanon
Oscar Gardea, Phantasy: Tezcatlipoca and The Ruins of the Mind [Anti-Ethnography versus Surrogate Dissidences]
Adam Haj Yahia, Carnal Politics: Sex, Desire, and Anti-Colonial Deviance in Mandate Palestine
Isabella Indolfi, Leave the Community Alone: The Ethics of Curating Contemporary Art in Villages
Iris Luo, Weaving the Threads: Labor Protection of Maya Weavers in Guatemala
Carol Motealegre Pinzon, Howls in the Mountains
Majd Alrafie, Tasakko’ ( تَسَــــكُّعْ ): The Politics of Street Art Culture in Amman
Garrett Sager, Breaking the Seal
Hattie Wilder Karlstrom, “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.–Mexico Border
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://chra.bard.edu/event/tracing-apparitions.
Location: Bard campus, Tivoli, and Barrytown