GHI2019 Refugees and Stateless Lives: What Can Art Do?

Recorded July 15, 2019. A workshop led by Professor Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University) on the subject of refugees and statelessness, posing the question: What can art do? Responding to the current "refugee crisis" and its implications for the future of democracy, this session builds on writings about statelessness from the mid-twentieth century by Hannah Arendt and others. Looking in depth at several diasporic art projects that respond specifically to statelessness as a condition, Professor Hirsch discusses what participatory art projects can do in the face of the traumatic effects of nationalism and ethnocentrism, negation and dispossession. Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/