hintergedanken: On Censorship Event

11 November 2022, 7pm - 8.30pm

a conversation on censorship & freedom of expression in Central Asia

Guests: Nazira Karimi and Koen De Feyter
moderated by Marilyn Volkman

co-organized by Hinterland & the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights

Join multidisciplinary artist Nazira Karimi and human rights expert Koen De Feyter for a conversation exploring connections between arts, human rights, and censorship with special focus on freedom of expression in Central Asia. The conversation will be moderated by Marilyn Volkman, Artistic Program Manager of the Vienna Master at Angewandte.

Nazira Karimi is a Central Asian multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna, Austria whose main interest resides in collectivity within female communities. Karimi is currently pursuing her Magister degree in Arts and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Professor Constanze Ruhm, and previously studied Stage Design and Painting at the Almaty College of Applied Arts in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Karimi is a founding member of MATA, an all female artist collective based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Together, they defy institutional inequality, overturn authoritative and hierarchical approaches in the art world, and aim for candid dialogues that shift power and promote solidarity.

Koen de Feyter is Professor of Public International Law and Spokesperson of the Research Group on Law and Development at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He currently serves as a member of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, chairs the Steering Committee of the global Law and Development Research Network (LDRn), and chairs Belgium’s Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development. At the University of Antwerp, he heads the Pieter Gillis Centre on active pluralism and interdisciplinarity. Recent publications include De Feyter, K., Erdem Türkelli, G., De Moerloose, S. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Law and Development (Edward Elgar 2021) and Corradi, G., De Feyter K., Desmet, E., Vanhees, K. (Eds.), Critical Indigenous Rights Studies (Routledge 2019).

moderator: Marilyn Volkman is an artist and curator based in Vienna. Her primary research focus is on artist-led movements for freedom of expression in Cuba. She is Artistic Program Manager of the Applied Human Rights MA at Angewandte and currently pursues a doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts alongside directing ENTRE—an independent space for fostering social and political understanding through artistic and discursive events.