Podcasts
Welcome to the Art Rights Truth Podcast. In this series, we focus on the role of the arts in inspiring new approaches and languages in human rights work. In each episode, we speak to guests including artists, human rights practitioners and academics, to try to answer to the question: what can art do for human rights?
Episode One: Artivism in Human Rights Work, with Ines Pousadela and Paula Serafini
In this episode, we discuss the value of art in human rights work, the challenges of arts-based approaches, and exciting projects and interventions within this field. The episode features Charlotte Spear in conversation with Ines Pousadela (CIVICUS) and Paula Serafini (QMUL).
Episode Two: Artistic Documentation and New Ways of Doing Human Rights, with Paul Gready and Wezile Harmans
In this episode, we discuss the role of documentation in political art, and how artwork may provide alternative means of documentation from those traditionally used in human rights work. We are joined by Art Rights Truth co-Principle Investigator and Professor of Politics and Applied Human Rights, Paul Gready, and interdisciplinary mixed-media artist Wezile Harmans.
Episode Four: Artistic Democratisation and New Ways of Doing Human Rights, with Barry Ace and Brian Philips
In this episode, we explore the role of art in democratising human rights and their implementation, particularly in relation to the promotion of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The conversation features Brian Philips, co-investigator on the Art Rights Truth project, and a human rights practitioner and educator, and Barry Ace, a practising artist and citizen of M’Chigeeng First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
Barry Ace's 2024 collaborative project, Bskaabwidmaagen - 'to return something back to its owner' (discussed in this episode) was initiated and funded by Elegoa Cultural Productions/Interwoven Futures Collective - with additional support from Art Rights Truth.
Episode Three: Artistic Deconstruction and New Ways of Doing Human Rights, with Mauricio Rivera Henao and Ana Bilbao Yarto
In this episode, we explore the role of deconstruction in political art and its potential to foster the development of contemporary Indigenous methodologies in research, repatriation, justice, and symbolic and territorial reclamation. The conversation features Ana Bilbao Yarto, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of York and Co-Investigator on Gente del ECO, and Colombian contemporary artist and academic Mauricio Rivera Henao, representing the collective Gente del ECO.
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