Art Calls Art Rights Truth & Amnesty International Call for Artists
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: November 30, 2024 – In this call, artists and activists are invited to respond to a particular human rights report by Amnesty International titled Under Protected and Over Restricted: The State of the Right to Protest in 21 European Countries (July 2024). The report ‘reveals a continent-wide pattern of repressive laws, use of unnecessary or excessive force, arbitrary arrests and prosecutions, unwarranted or discriminatory restrictions as well as the increasing use of invasive surveillance technology, resulting in a systematic roll back of the right to protest’. The report is part of Amnesty International’s global campaign called ‘Protect the Protest’.
The full report is available in English and the Executive Summary is available in multiple languages.
In asking artists and activists to ‘respond to’ this report, we do not mean to simply represent or reproduce the report’s content. Instead, we are asking artists to explore creative and new means of response – for example to reframe the report in a different genre, such as satire, graphic novel, or science fiction; or an innovative form, such as soundscapes, installations, performance, or textiles; or within a new meta-narrative, such as centring on care for victims rather than human rights law. Artists may wish to respond to a part of the report, a country profile, the Executive Summary and Recommendations (pp. 20-35), even a footnote; or to its tone and language; or to a particular issue, story, or case study it contains. Interventions could also interrogate issues and themes which feature in the report but were not analysed or developed in depth, or address the question of ‘what next?’ Finally, applicants may wish to celebrate the positive implications and achievements of the right to protest, or tell the human stories behind the statistics, policies and laws.
COMMISSIONS
A core part of the project is to commission new collaborative arts-based interventions; ‘Conversations with Reports – Amnesty International’ is one such call. It is an open call, and the maximum amount we offer for each commission is £4,000. Applicants can use this as micro- or seed-funding that either provides initial support to get a project off the ground or subsidises an ongoing initiative. Our focus is mainly on the visual arts, although applications in other forms will be considered. We are also interested in projects that are process based / seek to document a process, produce a series of works, and are easily replicable between sites (to allow for exhibitions and interventions linked to the art in multiple places and sites).
ELIGIBILITY
Artists and activists applying to this call can be of any nationality and based in any country, but proposed projects need to address the right to protest in one of the 21 European countries covered in the report.
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Applicants notified about outcome of applications on 16th December 2024.
About:
Art Rights Truth is a research project led by the Centre for Applied Human Rights and the History of Art Department at the University of York, UK funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
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The University of York is a public collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects. South-east of the city of York, the university campus is about 500 acres in size. Wikipedia
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Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world.
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