On artistic and human rights interventions
Lebanese performance and video artist Rabih Mroué speaks with 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.
On artistic and human rights interventions
Biographies
Artist
Rabih Mroué
Rabih Mroué, born in Beirut and lives now in Berlin, is a theatre director, actor, visual artist and playwright. Rooted in theatre, his work includes videos and installation art. He is a contributing editor for The Drama Review /*TDR (New York). * He is also a co-founder and a board member of the Beirut Art Center (BAC). He is a fellow at The International Research Center: Interweaving Performance Cultures/ FU/Berlin since 2013. He is a theatre director at Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich).
ECCHR General Secretary
Wolfgang Kaleck
Wolfgang Kaleck founded the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights with other internationally renowned lawyers in Berlin in 2007. As a lawyer, he represents whistleblower Edward Snowden, among others. Kaleck has also published numerous books.