PROLOGUE



To mark International Human Rights Day 2022, we present the PROLOGUE program of the ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS festival [June 2023].






During the Prologue, we will try to answer one of the burning questions: What can art and activism do in light of human rights violations today?

We will talk with visiting artists and activists from Iran, Russia, Israel, and America, with whom we share the same feeling that the situation on a global level is frightening and that we must react urgently. Urgent situations require rapid, effective
intervention to overcome the critical situation. In our case, dealing with art, we will try not only to contemplate and discuss, but to offer all our resources and strengths to actively participate together in the resistance against
injustice, against war, and the entire passivized state of the human spirit. In light of this, we want to offer another narrative, to illuminate and show what we can still do, what artists have been doing on the world stage for years,
and that what they do makes sense, works, and offers hope.




PROGRAM


STANDING UP FOR OTHERS IS A FIGHT FOR OURSELVES



9.12.

10.12


UK PAROBROD

4:00 PM–8:00 PM

Installation “Cardiophone” – Moran Duvshani, Israel

Private listening to the melody of your heart. This participatory work combines a medical device and a music box and receives one visitor at a time. You are invited on a journey that has three stages and begins with an EKG test, and ends with listening to
a unique melody created by your own heart.

Moran Duvshani (Israel) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in visual theater and performance. She was born in Kibbutz Barkai, Israel in 1984. She graduated from the School of Visual Theater
in Jerusalem in 2013 and was awarded the Mayor’s Prize for outstanding work. She is the recipient of the Jerusalem Foundation Award for Excellence (2011). Today, Moran is an independent artist, performer, and artistic consultant. Her
works have been presented abroad at festivals in Cyprus, Estonia, Austria, Germany, Latvia, and Iceland. In Israel, her works can be seen in numerous museums, theaters, and galleries, including the Museum
of Islamic Art, Tmuna Theater, Voz/Train Theater, Miklat 209, HaHanut Theater, Performance Art Arena, Celims Center for Choreography and Dance, and Gaza 13 Gallery.

20.00

Film “Understanding Women’s Activism in Iran Through Film”, Mashad Afshar, Iran/Great Britain

Conversation with the author after the screening moderated by Dijana Milošević, DAH Theater, Serbia

Mashad Afshar (Iran) is an award-winning director and producer living in London. With a multidisciplinary education, Afshar graduated from the London Film School in Filmmaking/Directing in 2014,
and continued her research interests with a doctorate in Film Studies at Kingston University (2021), London. Afshar co-directed her debut feature documentary “Cul-de-sac” (2010) which was met
with great acclaim in the international press and media. It has been screened at twenty-three international film festivals, as well as at Amnesty International and many other human and women’s rights organizations. Her latest project, the documentary
and film essay “Women on Both Sides of the Camera” (2020), was an official selection of ReadingFilmFEST 2021 in Pennsylvania, as well as at the Imagine This Women’s International Film Festival in New York, and won the award for best
film about women and women’s issues at the Museum Talkies International Film Festival 2021 in India.




UK PAROBROD

4:00 PM–8:00 PM

Installation “Cardiophone” – Moran Duvshani, Israel

19.00

PRESENTATION of the multimedia initiative “Let’s Perform Together on the World Stage: Performance and Creative Transformation of Conflict” – Cynthia Cohen, Brandeis University, USA [online] and Dijana
Milošević, DAH Theater, Serbia.
https://www.atwsresources.com

FILM “Let’s Perform Together on the World Stage” – documentary film by Cynthia Cohen and Alison Lund [USA].

This 55-minute documentary highlights the stories of nine theater artists involved in peacebuilding, as well as their understanding of key issues and dilemmas in this field. The documentary has been screened in hundreds of locations
around the world. It is the winner of the “Spirit of Place Award” for excellence in social realism and excellence in art. The film screening is a collaboration between DAH Theater, the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University
in the United States, and IMPACT: Imagining Together platform for art, culture, and conflict transformation.

Cynthia E. Cohen (USA), co-created the documentary “Let’s Perform Together on the World Stage” and co-edited anthologies and PDFs with additional tools that were part of that large project.
She writes, teaches, and conducts research on the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of peacebuilding. She is co-director of the Brandeis University Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts.

After the screening, a CONVERSATION with artists Moran Duvshani from Israel, Mashad Afshar from Iran/Great Britain, Katja Kazina from Russia:

“What can art and activism do today in light of human rights violations?”

Katja Kazina (Russia) is a feminist and activist, with education in the fields of philosophy and filmmaking. She left Russia in the first week of the current war in Ukraine. She has been part of
the Women in Black group since July 2022. As part of her practice, Katja explores the politics of memory, violence, inequality, and solidarity.

Moderated by Ivana Milenović Popović, DAH Theater, Serbia.





REALIZATION SUPPORTED BY:

Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, Reconstruction Women’s Fund, Embassy of Israel in Serbia

DAH THEATER THANKS:

UK Parobrod, Women in Black, Dijana Mitrović

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