PromotedArts in Conflict
“The Waldorf Project, in collaboration with Wonderfruit Festival, attempted something never done before….and made history…in the world’s biggest experiment in empathy engineering. 4200 people were united as a single organism, connected for a moment as one. “ The World’s Largest Experiment in Empathy Engineering “FUTURO – X” took place at Thailand’s Wonderfruit Festival in December 2018, making […]
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Following the critical and public success for Angel in 2017, multi-award-winning UK playwright Henry Naylor brings his award-winning plays Games and Borders to the Arcola theatre for their London premieres this December. The show will run from Tuesday 4th December to Friday 21st December 2018 at the Arcola Theatre. “NAYLOR’S NAME REMAINS A MARK OF QUALITY FOR THOSE WHO LIKE […]
What power does the Turner prize possess? Does the Turner Prize have a duty to present truth? These are two of the questions asked on the wall as you enter the exhibition. There have been some scathing reviews by some media sources of this year’s Turner prize shortlist. “Where are the pretty paintings?” Why is it […]
The date is 22 November 2019. We are led to understand that Donald Trump has been impeached and exiled to Palm Beach. We encounter a prison meeting room in El Paso Texas. It contains a water cooler, a desk, two chairs and there is a window with one-way glass. Sitting in one of the chairs […]
Having recently returned from a successful tour in the US, the Irish folk band are performing to raise money for World Refugee Day dinner. The concert will be held on Saturday, 19th May at 7.30pm at in Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. The theme of the concert is ‘An Irish Welcome’ and is Altan’s first performance in Ireland in 2018. The […]
The choice this year is very on point and relevant, with works dealing with racial tensions, police brutality, LGBT issues, post-colonialism, human rights and migration. The shortlisted artists are Forensic Architecture, Naeem Mohaiemen, Charlotte Prodger and Luke Wilson Thompson. Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain said: ‘Following a thoughtful and rigorous debate, this year’s jury […]
For his solo exhibition “In Limbo” in Portugal, Danish Artist, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen brings us his film production Quicksand along with new prints from his ongoing work The Floating Series to Galeria Presença. Opening on the 21th April 2018 at 4PM, the exhibition runs until 2nd June 2018. For over a decade, Larsen’s work has explored different facets of migration. Through […]
Written and performed by French actor Bertrand Lesca and Greek actor Nasi Voutsas, Palmyra is a play about destruction, power, ego and revenge. The play is named after the ancient Syrian city that changed hands at various times throughout the Syrian Civil War only to be eventually taken over and destroyed by Isis. The play […]
He asks her “What are you afraid of?” She asks “you want me to tell you here … in front of all these people?” “Yes”, he says “if answering the questions is what you are most afraid of”. “I am afraid of people judging me for who I really am” she responds. He says; “Now […]
Singapore-based British Artist Nicola Anthony is among the 30 finalists in the 2018 Sovereign Asian Art Prize announced by Sovereign Art Foundation in Hong Kong on 1st of March 2018. Held annually, this is the 14th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists. Artists are nominated by a carefully selected board of independent art […]
Recently, I saw The Claim by Tim Cowbury, performed at Shoreditch Town Hall in London. Set in a home office interview room, The Claim gives us another view of the asylum seeker’s journey. It shows us how language barriers and miscommunications can add to their plight, their humiliation and ultimately their fate. We are first […]
Philip Ridley’s new play ‘Angry’ consisting of six monologues is an important work at this time. Directed by Max Lindsay, the intense 90-minute play, subjects the audience to a collection of themes from millennial rage to violence and the dystopia of the refugee crisis. The parts are “gender neutral” and are alternated each night between the […]
Conceptual artist Richard Mosse has been awarded the 2017 Prix Pictet for his Heat Maps, a series of panoramic images. They were shown at the highly acclaimed solo exhibition Incoming in the Curve Gallery, Barbican along with a film, a large scale three-screen video projection. Incoming charts the movement of refugees attempting to enter Europe from the Middle East and […]
Kicking off a season of events based around Syria: a conflict explored, the Imperial War Museum, London hosted a pop-up Café: Conversations about Syria. There was an opportunity for anyone to come along and ask questions and find out first hand what daily life is like now in this war-torn country. We spoke to Syrian […]
Frieze Projects 2016 presented a one-day series of conversations at the Goethe Institut in London. The focus of the conversations was on how cultural differences might be articulated, mediated and enjoyed through the arts in zones of war and conflict. A group of new and old artists working in areas of conflict were joined on […]