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Artistic Documentation and New Ways of Doing Human Rights, with Paul Gready and Wezile Harmans

34 min · 7. juli 2025
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In this episode, we discuss the role of documentation in political art, and how artwork may provide alternative means of documentation from those traditionally used in human rights work. We are joined by Art Rights Truth co-Principle Investigator and Professor of Politics and Applied Human Rights, Paul Gready, and interdisciplinary mixed-media artist Wezile Harmans. Theme music by Mauricio Rivera Henao.

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