Artivism
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Artists:
Rebin Chalak (Iraq)
Grupo de Arte Callejero (Argentina)
Intuthuko Embroidery Project (South Africa)
Elisabeth Ida Mulyani (Indonesia/Belgium)
Aida Šehović (Bosnia and Herzegovina/USA)
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (Canada)
Film Installation:
RAVA Films
Rafael Salazar
Ava Wiland
Curatorial Support Services:
Venice Art Factory
Rebin Chalak (Iraq)
Grupo de Arte Callejero (Argentina)
Intuthuko Embroidery Project (South Africa)
Elisabeth Ida Mulyani (Indonesia/Belgium)
Aida Šehović (Bosnia and Herzegovina/USA)
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (Canada)
Film Installation:
RAVA Films
Rafael Salazar
Ava Wiland
Curatorial Support Services:
Venice Art Factory
Meet the Organizer
Since its inception in 2008, the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) has worked on a global scale, using the knowledge and experience of leading atrocity-prevention experts to equip and empower government officials with the tools and understanding that they need to confront these warning signs effectively – an approach that no other organization in the field has taken. More than a decade of curricular development has allowed AIPG to operationalize the identification of critical risk factors, providing officials with concrete frameworks to respond to these warning signs before they can gain deadly momentum, protecting the fundamental human rights of their populations.
For over ten years, AIPG has worked with over 90 countries around the world to develop public policy for the prevention of mass atrocities. As part of this mission, AIPG has frequently worked with ministries of culture in an effort to support and encourage the arts as a key tool in reaching broader publics. We have educated these ministries in the role arts can play in dealing with a violent past and offered technical assistance to these states in creating programs that encourage artistic and cultural development.
With regional offices in New York, New York; Oswiecim, Poland; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bucharest, Romania; and Kampala, Uganda, the Auschwitz Institute works with government officials across the globe to empower them with the necessary information, tools and networking capacities to design, implement, and sustain effective laws and policies that prevent genocide and other mass atrocities. Since its founding, the Auschwitz Institute has trained and provided ongoing support to over 4,000
government officials from more than 75 countries.
The power of Auschwitz – its reality, its memory, its legacy – transcends place and inspires AIPG’s international programming. To this end, the Auschwitz Institute’s educational, training, and capacity building programs are held on sites of past atrocity that harness their power of place, providing compelling opportunities to participating officials for foundational learning and the creation of a personal commitment to the prevention of future mass atrocities.
As a result of AIPG’s unique methodology of providing long-term training and support, many participating officials have played a key role in the successful development and implementation of policies and practices that prevent mass atrocities in their home countries and at the international level. After completing a foundational learning program, participants become members of AIPG’s alumni community, which allows for ongoing communication and interaction among members. This not only promotes an active exchange of best practices and ideas within the community, but also functions as a platform for the Auschwitz Institute to provide continued training and professional development opportunities.
Recognizing that there is no effective universal policy prescription to the threat posed by genocide, AIPG works to support the development of regional solutions to regional challenges. For example, the Auschwitz Institute’s Latin American training curriculum for public officials focuses on themes such as memory, truth, and justice; migration patterns; the role of the security sector; and the rights of indigenous and LGBTI+ populations. In the Great Lakes Region of Africa, by contrast, the curriculum focuses on halting electoral violence, the development of early warning systems, gender mainstreaming, and the role played by youth in the prevention of future atrocities.
The Auschwitz Institute also encourages and supports robust cooperation between states on preventive efforts as a core part of its mission. The Auschwitz Institute accomplishes this through the formation and development of regional and international networks, to which it lends support and technical assistance. Alumni of Auschwitz Institute training and capacity-building programs have utilized these networks to collaborate with their peers across ministries and national governments to design and implement innovative policies that increase respect for fundamental human rights and prevent atrocities. One of these regional networks, the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, to which AIPG serves as Technical Secretariat, has been described by Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations on the Prevention of Genocide, as a “vibrant, solid, committed, and leading actor in the global architecture of genocide and mass atrocity prevention.”
For over ten years, AIPG has worked with over 90 countries around the world to develop public policy for the prevention of mass atrocities. As part of this mission, AIPG has frequently worked with ministries of culture in an effort to support and encourage the arts as a key tool in reaching broader publics. We have educated these ministries in the role arts can play in dealing with a violent past and offered technical assistance to these states in creating programs that encourage artistic and cultural development.
With regional offices in New York, New York; Oswiecim, Poland; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bucharest, Romania; and Kampala, Uganda, the Auschwitz Institute works with government officials across the globe to empower them with the necessary information, tools and networking capacities to design, implement, and sustain effective laws and policies that prevent genocide and other mass atrocities. Since its founding, the Auschwitz Institute has trained and provided ongoing support to over 4,000
government officials from more than 75 countries.
The power of Auschwitz – its reality, its memory, its legacy – transcends place and inspires AIPG’s international programming. To this end, the Auschwitz Institute’s educational, training, and capacity building programs are held on sites of past atrocity that harness their power of place, providing compelling opportunities to participating officials for foundational learning and the creation of a personal commitment to the prevention of future mass atrocities.
As a result of AIPG’s unique methodology of providing long-term training and support, many participating officials have played a key role in the successful development and implementation of policies and practices that prevent mass atrocities in their home countries and at the international level. After completing a foundational learning program, participants become members of AIPG’s alumni community, which allows for ongoing communication and interaction among members. This not only promotes an active exchange of best practices and ideas within the community, but also functions as a platform for the Auschwitz Institute to provide continued training and professional development opportunities.
Recognizing that there is no effective universal policy prescription to the threat posed by genocide, AIPG works to support the development of regional solutions to regional challenges. For example, the Auschwitz Institute’s Latin American training curriculum for public officials focuses on themes such as memory, truth, and justice; migration patterns; the role of the security sector; and the rights of indigenous and LGBTI+ populations. In the Great Lakes Region of Africa, by contrast, the curriculum focuses on halting electoral violence, the development of early warning systems, gender mainstreaming, and the role played by youth in the prevention of future atrocities.
The Auschwitz Institute also encourages and supports robust cooperation between states on preventive efforts as a core part of its mission. The Auschwitz Institute accomplishes this through the formation and development of regional and international networks, to which it lends support and technical assistance. Alumni of Auschwitz Institute training and capacity-building programs have utilized these networks to collaborate with their peers across ministries and national governments to design and implement innovative policies that increase respect for fundamental human rights and prevent atrocities. One of these regional networks, the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, to which AIPG serves as Technical Secretariat, has been described by Adama Dieng, Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations on the Prevention of Genocide, as a “vibrant, solid, committed, and leading actor in the global architecture of genocide and mass atrocity prevention.”
Meet the Curators
Luca Berta holds a Ph.D in Theory and Analysis of Language from the University of Bergamo, where he also worked as a research fellow, and collaborates with private universities such as IUSVE (Istituto Universitario Salesiano Venezia) and IED (Istituto Europeo di Design). He is the author of scientific papers in international journals and several books about art, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind, among which “Dai Neuroni alle Parole” [“From Neurons to Words. How language has reshaped the sensory experience”], Mimesis, Milan 2010; and “In Bed with Mona Lisa. Contemporary Art for Commuters and Curious Minds”, Studio LT2-Central Books, London 2014 (written with Carlo Vanoni). Over the past years, he has worked as an independent curator, often in collaboration with Francesca Giubilei, with whom he curated two Collateral Events at the Venice Biennale 2015: The Dialogue of Fire. Ceramic and glass masters from Barcelona to Venice and TheSound of Creation. Sound paintings by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno. In 2016 they curated the solo exhibition by Joseph Klibansky Beautiful Tomorrow, at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti. In 2017, they co-curated The Boy in a Box, painting and sound installation by Anthony Corner and Jonathan Hickman; Beauty and the Beast, with Judi Harvest and Quentin Garel, and the solo show of Rosslynd Piggott, Garden Fracture / Mirror in Vapour: part 2, at the Museum of Glass in Murano. In 2018 he has co-curated with Francesca Giubilei Design After Darwin. Adapted to Adaptability at Palazzo Morosini Gatterburg, and Il Teatro nello Specchio at Museo Casa Goldoni.
Francesca Giubilei is an independent curator, director of the exhibition space SPARC* - Spazio Arte Contemporanea, located in Venice, and co-founder of Veniceartfactory. After being the assistant curator of the exhibition Glasstress, Collateral Event of the 2013 Biennale, she went on to curate the 2014 exhibition ‘Within Light / Inside Glass’ in Venice and Lisbon, in collaboration with the Universidade de Lisboa. In recent years she has often done curatorial work worked alongside Luca Berta, with whom she curated two Collateral Events during the 2015 Venice Biennale: ‘The Dialogue of Fire. Ceramic and glass masters from Barcelona to Venice’ and ‘The Sound of Creation. Sound paintings by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno’. In 2016 Giubilei and Berta curated the solo show of works by Joseph Klibanksy entitled ‘Beautiful Tomorrow’ at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. In 2017 they co-curated ‘The Boy Boy in a Box’, a sound and painting installation by Anthony Corner and Jonathan Hickman, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ by Judi Harvest and Quentin Garel, and the solo exhibition by Rosslynd Piggott entitled ‘Garden Fracture / Mirror in Vapour: Part 2’ at the Museo del Vetro di Murano. In 2018 she also curated, again with Luca Berta, ‘Design After
Darwin. Adapted to Adaptability’ at Palazzo Morosini Gatterburg and ‘Il Teatro nello Specchio’ at the Museo Casa Goldoni.
Kerry Whigham received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. He is Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. He is also the Communications Officer and a member of the executive board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). He is the Director of Research and Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, an international non-governmental organization that works with over 80 countries around the world on creating public policy for the protection of vulnerable groups and the prevention of mass atrocities. He has taught courses at New York University, Kean University, and Stockton University. His work has been presented at academic conferences and universities in five continents. Kerry’s research focuses on the way post-atrocity societies remember and engage with the past, along with how that violent past impacts the present and future. In particular, his research engages the creation and curation of public memory sites, as well as grassroots, civil society activism, both as a means for shaping public memory and transforming post-conflict societies. As part of this work, Kerry has conducted field research across Latin America, Europe, and the United States.
Francesca Giubilei is an independent curator, director of the exhibition space SPARC* - Spazio Arte Contemporanea, located in Venice, and co-founder of Veniceartfactory. After being the assistant curator of the exhibition Glasstress, Collateral Event of the 2013 Biennale, she went on to curate the 2014 exhibition ‘Within Light / Inside Glass’ in Venice and Lisbon, in collaboration with the Universidade de Lisboa. In recent years she has often done curatorial work worked alongside Luca Berta, with whom she curated two Collateral Events during the 2015 Venice Biennale: ‘The Dialogue of Fire. Ceramic and glass masters from Barcelona to Venice’ and ‘The Sound of Creation. Sound paintings by Beezy Bailey and Brian Eno’. In 2016 Giubilei and Berta curated the solo show of works by Joseph Klibanksy entitled ‘Beautiful Tomorrow’ at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. In 2017 they co-curated ‘The Boy Boy in a Box’, a sound and painting installation by Anthony Corner and Jonathan Hickman, ‘Beauty and the Beast’ by Judi Harvest and Quentin Garel, and the solo exhibition by Rosslynd Piggott entitled ‘Garden Fracture / Mirror in Vapour: Part 2’ at the Museo del Vetro di Murano. In 2018 she also curated, again with Luca Berta, ‘Design After
Darwin. Adapted to Adaptability’ at Palazzo Morosini Gatterburg and ‘Il Teatro nello Specchio’ at the Museo Casa Goldoni.
Kerry Whigham received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. He is Assistant Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. He is also the Communications Officer and a member of the executive board for the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). He is the Director of Research and Online Education at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, an international non-governmental organization that works with over 80 countries around the world on creating public policy for the protection of vulnerable groups and the prevention of mass atrocities. He has taught courses at New York University, Kean University, and Stockton University. His work has been presented at academic conferences and universities in five continents. Kerry’s research focuses on the way post-atrocity societies remember and engage with the past, along with how that violent past impacts the present and future. In particular, his research engages the creation and curation of public memory sites, as well as grassroots, civil society activism, both as a means for shaping public memory and transforming post-conflict societies. As part of this work, Kerry has conducted field research across Latin America, Europe, and the United States.