DATE: FRIDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2021
TIME: 19.00-20.00 BST (UK Time)
LOCATION: ONLINE – LIVE DISCUSSION
ACCESSIBILITY: THIS EVENT IS SUPPORTED WITH BSL INTERPRETATION
In collaboration with the 15th Conference on Death, Dying & Disposal, SICK! Festival presents three artistic projects followed by conversations with the artists and their collaborators. The events reflect the conference’s focus on Death and Decolonisation.
Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury discusses ritual and commemoration in her work with Professor Laleh Khalili, confronting experiences of political violence and displacement. She will reflect on the impact of recent history in her work, exploring how it is reflected in projects such as Gardens Speak, an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens.
Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and is concerned with the ethical and political potential of such encounters. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across 6 continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is the recipient of a Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award.
Laleh Khalili is a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London and the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge 2007), Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford 2013), and Sinews of War and Trade (Verso 2020).
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DDD15
SICK! EVENTS AT THE DDD15 CONFERENCE
CREDITS Antony Redshaw – BSL Interpretation PARTNERS Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS) MMU: Research in Arts & Humanities
Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury discusses ritual and commemoration in her work with Professor Laleh Khalili, confronting experiences of political violence and displacement. She will reflect on the impact of recent history in her work, exploring how it is reflected in projects such as Gardens Speak, an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens.
Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and is concerned with the ethical and political potential of such encounters. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across 6 continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is the recipient of a Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award.
Laleh Khalili is a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London and the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge 2007), Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford 2013), and Sinews of War and Trade (Verso 2020).
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DDD15
SICK! EVENTS AT THE DDD15 CONFERENCE
CREDITS Antony Redshaw – BSL Interpretation PARTNERS Association for the Study of Death and Society (ASDS) MMU: Research in Arts & Humanities
Image Credit: Jesse Hunniford