Global Campus of Human Rights: "First Joint Annual Engaged Artivist Award on Atrocity Prevention and Human Rights: Call for Applications." Dead-line on 25 April 2023

In the frame of the MoU on Cooperation on Genocide and other Mass Atrocities Prevention and Democracy Promotion signed between the Global Campus of Human Rights (GC) and the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (AIPG) on 7 November 2019, these two institutions have announced the call for applications for the first edition of their Joint Annual Engaged Artivist Award on Atrocity Prevention and Human Rights. Artivists may apply until 25 April 2023.

The Joint Annual Engaged Artivist Award, organized in collaboration with the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University, aims to appreciate the work of Artivists (artist-activists), highlighting the creative ways in which they respond to large-scale identity-based violence and mass atrocity in varying conflict contexts and geographic regions across the globe. The concept of “Art as Atrocity Prevention” wants to highlight the role of the arts in mitigating risk factors related to genocide, other mass atrocities, and identity-based violence. In this way, artistic interventions can be seen as preventive when they:

-Contribute to improving the human rights of groups of people who have been marginalised;

-Call attention to violence or discrimination against groups of people;

-Demand justice for past human rights violations; or

-Depict visions for a different future where identity-based violence is less likely to occur.

The award will be given to one selected Artivist to support their work related to the topic of genocide and mass atrocities prevention, broadly understood. The selected Artivist will benefit from a year-long residency during which the sponsoring institutions will provide the following resources:

-A residency from mid-August 2023 to mid-December 2023 at the Global Campus of Human Rights headquarters in Venice, Italy, with the ability to participate actively in the educational activities of the Global Campus during this period and audit relevant classes and with a stipend of EUR 12,000 to support room and board, workspace, and any other needs;

-A residency from January 2024 to May 2024 at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention in Binghamton, New York, with the ability to audit relevant classes and with a stipend USD 22,000 to support housing and other needs, workspace;

-The costs associated with one travel to and from Venice, one travel to and from Binghamton and one travel to and from to an Auschwitz Institute office and visas (as necessary and separately); and

-A week-long visit to one of the offices of the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities in either New York (USA), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Kampala (Uganda), Bucharest (Romania), or Oświęcim (Poland).

Interested Artivists are asked to submit the following materials:

-A resume or CV;

-A written proposal of no more than 2 pages describing what the Artivist would like to accomplish over the award period. This can include the development or creation of a new artistic piece, or a justification for how the artist plans to benefit from the professional development resources of the three institutions;

-Photographs of a past artistic intervention that engages with the themes of the award; and

-A short biographical statement of the Artivist.

For more information, contact the selection committee at: award.GC.AIPG@gmail.com

Last update

17/4/2023