Rights in Dialogue: Voices in Art and Activism

This episode of the Art Rights Truth podcast explores the role of artistic and creative methodologies in designing new ways of doing human rights work. The episode features Art Rights Truth team member and filmmaker, Emilie Flower, and Head of Programmes and Influencing at Action Aid, David Archer.

In this episode, we explore the potential for "dosti", or friendship, as a tool to create more sustainable, longer-lasting activist movements in an increasingly polarised world. The episode features art director and graphic designer, Pooja Dhingra, community organiser, Yusra Khan, and activist-scholar Abdul Kalam Azad.

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.Theme music by Mauricio Rivera Henao.

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 Art Rights Truth, and Colombian contemporary artist and academic Mauricio Rivera Henao, representing the collective Gente del ECO.Theme music by Mauricio Rivera Henao.---Deconstrucción artística y nuevas formas de hacer derechos humanos, con Mauricio Rivera Henao y Ana Bilbao Yarto En este episodio exploramos la función de la deconstrucción en el arte político y su potencial para abrir caminos hacia el desarrollo de metodologías indígenas contemporáneas aplicadas a la investigación, la repatriación, la justicia y la reclamación territorial y simbólica. La conversación es entre Ana Bilbao Yarto, Senior Lecturer de arte moderno y contemporáneo en la Universidad de York y coinvestigadora en Gente del ECO, y el artista contemporáneo y académico colombiano Mauricio Rivera Henao, quien representa al colectivo Gente del ECO. Tema musical por Mauricio Rivera Henao.

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.Theme music by Mauricio Rivera Henao.

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).Theme music by Mauricio Rivera Henao.