Artist Talk by Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury
Tania El Khoury is an artist who creates interactive installations and performances that transform through audience interaction, exploring themes such as collective memory and the cultivation of solidarity. Internationally acclaimed for her work, Khoury is also actively involved in the field of education as a director of the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (CHRA) at Bard College. In this talk, she discusses her artistic practice, which engages with themes such as state power, displacement, and national borders.
Tania El Khoury is delivering this talk as part of Kyoto Experiment.
Artist Talk Host: Mizuho Fujita (Chief curator/Program Director, KCUA Art Gallery)
Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and its political potential. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is a witness and an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across six continents in spaces ranging from museums to cable cars. She is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Soros Art Fellowship, the Bessies Outstanding Production Award, the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award, and the Arches Brick Award. Tania is Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater & Performance and the Director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College in New York. She holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. She is associated with the Forest Fringe collective of artists in the UK and is a cofounder of the urban research and live art collective Dictaphone Group in Lebanon.
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