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【June 5th】FIHRM-AP Meeting and Warm-Up Event of ”Past, Present and Future: Art and Freedom of Creative Expression” Workshop

May 25, 2024 By FIHRM-AP

Topic: How curators and artists face human rights issues in the Asia-Pacific region?

FIHRM-AP Meeting and Warm-Up Event of ”Past, Present and Future: Art and Freedom of Creative Expression” Workshop

Topic: How curators and artists face human rights issues in the Asia-Pacific region?
Date: 5th June, 2024 14:00-16:45 (GMT+8, Taiwan time)

Federation of International Human Rights Museums- Asia Pacific (FIHRM-AP) was established in September 2019 on the ICOM General Conference held in Kyoto. As a platform for museums and NGOs in the Asia-Pacific region, FIHRM-AP urges governments to carefully watch the development of human rights issues in this region. It works to build human-rights-oriented museum values to drive contemporary practices to further the cause.

This June, the National Human Rights Museum (NHRM) in collaboration with the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) will host the workshop "Past, Present, and Future: Art and the Freedom of Creative Expression." This event will serve as a platform for reflection and dialogue on promoting human rights through artistic practices. As a precursor to the workshop, we are hosting an online meeting to engage artists and curators in a discussion on “How curators and artists face human rights issues in the Asia-Pacific region?” We encourage all who are interested in human rights advocacy to join this session. Interpretation services in English and Chinese will be available, and we recommend registering early to secure your participation.

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Agenda:

📍 14:00 — 14:05 Address by
HONG Shi-Fang , Director of the National Human Rights Museum and President of FIHRM-AP

📍 14:05 — 14:45 Experience Sharing 1
Topic: Queering The Museum: LGBTIQ+ Inclusion and Beyond
Speaker: Craig Middleton, Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia

📍 14:45 — 15:25　Experience Sharing 2
Topic: The Smoldering Embers: Resolute Utterance of Women from Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Speaker: Pooja Pant, Executive Director of Voices of Women Media

📍 15:25 — 16:15　Experience Sharing 3
Topic: Patani Art Space: Art and Community
Speaker: Jehabdulloh jehsorhoh, Founder of Patani Artspace

📍 16:15 — 16:45 Discussion
Moderator: LIN Wen-Ling, Assistant Professor of Graduate Institute of Arts Management and Cultural Policy in National Taiwan University of Arts
Discussant: WU Chieh-Hsiang, Professor of Department of Arts in the National Changhua University of Education

* The event will proceed in English and Mandarin consecutive interpreting.
* Applicants will have received the meeting link by email.
＊For any inquiries, please feel free to email us at museumfju.website@gmail.com

Craig Middleton

About the Speaker:

Craig Middleton is a Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia and an Honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. At the National Museum of Australia, he is responsible for creative, content, and collections development across a range of projects and programs within the Discovery and Collections division. His commitment to inclusion has informed his work in museums through the creation of tours, programs, exhibitions, and research. He is a widely published author and his book, co-authored with Dr Nikki Sullivan, Queering the Museum, was published by Routledge in 2019.

Pooja Pant

About the Speaker:

Pooja Pant is a documentary filmmaker, women’s rights activist and a video journalist. She is the founder and Director of Voices of Women Media – a women’s rights organization that focuses on access to multimedia and technology as a tool for women’s rights. As a producer, she has worked on stories for Netflix, Channel News Asia, RAW Factual Productions, AFP, UN, ICIMOD, BBC World and various other institutions. Currently she is raising her daughter as she continually focuses on her activism & storytelling. At present, she is based in Nepal.

Jehabdulloh Jehsorhoh

About the Speaker:

Jehabdulloh Jehsorhoh was born in 1983 in Pattani province. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus, as well as a Master’s Degree in Visual Arts (Thai Arts) from the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Silpakorn University. Is currently an art teacher at the field of visual arts Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Prince of Songkla University Pattani Campus and opened Patani Artspace as an area for organizing one of the most famous arts events in Thailand.kk His artwork is inspired by the image of local Malay Pattani in the Deep South, such as the work “the image of local Malay Pattani” is inspired by the pattern designs of Koleh boat. And the work “the beauty in the dark at Pattani” that he wants to talk about the faith in Islam. He uses the objects people can find and use in daily life of Muslims, such as the hijab and Batu nisan as part of the artwork. Through the creative process of mixed materials painting with hand-made paper techniques. Currently, he is interested in the unrest, violence and resulting paranoia in the Deep South, Syria and Palestine, so can see in his artwork “Budu Bomb” and “Born in the war” series. Including works that reflect the political situation both in the three southern border provinces and at the national level The works are both in the nature of painting, mixed media painting, sculpture, art installation, photo art and performance art, such as industrial series of violence, the work of the security industry series, Dark Power series, and Red Space series.