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On artistic and human rights interventions

On artistic and human rights interventions

Lebanese performance and video artist Rabih Mroué speaks with ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck about how he treats the impact of violent images in his work. Beginning with his piece PIXELATED REVOLUTION, which uses the moment of the civilian witness capturing violence on their cellphone camera, Mroué lays out a complicated web of connections between the witnessing acts of viewer, victim, and perpetrator.

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The blood of the dawn with Claudia Salazar Jiménez and Karina Theurer

The blood of the dawn with Claudia Salazar Jiménez and Karina Theurer

This episode is about the debut novel The Blood of the Dawn — La Sangre de la Aurora by Claudia Salazar Jiménez. Salazar Jiménez and Karina Theurer, director of ECCHR’s Institute for Legal Intervention, discuss the enduring consequences of gender discrimination, using fiction as a  tool for visibility and for sensitizing us to the suffering of others. Please be advised, this episode contains themes of sexual and gender-based violence that some listeners may find distressing.

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Visuals of violence with Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck

Visuals of violence with Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck

In this episode, curator and cultural historian Mark Sealy and Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary, talk about the challenges of visual representation. They discuss the visuals of violence and the viewers’ responsibility and interrogate different ways of dealing with photography produced in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Sealy and Kaleck thereby try to answer the question: How do we deploy these images… and to what purpose?

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Decolonizing the camera in practice

Decolonizing the camera in practice

Guatemalan visual artist Ixmucané Aguilar joins Wolfgang Kaleck, ECCHR general secretary, to discuss her documentary photography practice  exploring the enduring effects of German colonialism in Namibia and the genocide against the Herero and Nama. The conversation addresses the  fragility of photography as a medium, the risk the photographer runs of imposing their values upon their subject, the importance of collective  evidence and recognizing the many nuances of truth.