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Congratulations to our CHRA graduate Ime Soul (‘24) who has been named of four 2026–27 New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks ...
09/08/2026

Congratulations to our CHRA graduate Ime Soul (‘24) who has been named of four 2026–27 New York Live Arts’ Fresh Tracks Artists. A season-long residency for early career movement-based artists, the Residency & Performance program supports artists to create new work while providing overall professional development.

Ime Soul is a live arts practitioner working on ephemeral installations, moving images, and performance. Ime Soul presents biomythological work exploring Blackness, abjection, sexuality, and the constraints of language as articulation. Their performances misuse formal qualities of Black church.

Often a combination of extended duration and high intensity, Ime Soul uses fatigue as a vehicle to open up a sensorial and reflective space. Like church, witness and participation makes their work complete. Ime Soul received an BA in Fine Art and American and Indigenous studies at Bard College (2022), as well as an MA from the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (2024). Their work has been shown across New York State at spaces ranging from fine art institutions to public interruptions– Performance Space NY, Gallery 495 (’26), CultureHub (‘26), Intercomm (‘24, ‘25) to name a few.

More on Ime Soul’s work and news from CHRA on: CHRA.bard.edu/news

Fresh off the press! “The People Shall Govern”, the fourth volume of Talks on Human Rights and the Arts, is now availabl...
07/28/2026

Fresh off the press! “The People Shall Govern”, the fourth volume of Talks on Human Rights and the Arts, is now available to order through our website with international shipping. Edited by Tania El Khoury, the collection brings together artists, activists, and scholars from around the world to explore Land Back struggles, settler colonialism and property law; art, illness, and healing; Third World solidarity networks; anti-statist movements and experiments in ungovernability; and collective artistic responses to the planetary catastrophes wrought by capitalism.

Chapters include:

Health and Border Politics by Guadalupe Maravilla

How to Commit Crimes Against Reality by New Red Order

S*x, Cancer, and Other Things My Mother Wishes / Never Had by Brian Lobel

Hader Halal (With Regard to Presence):
Towards Building the Palestinian Library in Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings by Fehras Publishing

Shopping Centers at the End of the World by Robin Frohardt

Becoming Ungovernable by Molemo Moiloa

The Racial Politics of Preemptive Violence by Brenna Bhandar

Congratulations to our Class of 2026 MA in Human Rights & the Arts. 🎉👏🏽Join us in wishing Lubnah Ansari, Mona Benyamin, ...
05/23/2026

Congratulations to our Class of 2026 MA in Human Rights & the Arts. 🎉👏🏽

Join us in wishing Lubnah Ansari, Mona Benyamin, Mahmoud El Safadi, Tara Rodríguez Besosa, João F. Rufatto Ferreira, Omayma Sbeih, and Nádia Yracema the best of luck in their future endeavors in art and research. 💫 🎓

CHRA graduate Isabella Indolfi (‘23) has just co-founded MESH_Arts, a cultural hub in Brooklyn, New York “where art meet...
05/13/2026

CHRA graduate Isabella Indolfi (‘23) has just co-founded MESH_Arts, a cultural hub in Brooklyn, New York “where art meets research, technology, and since. Through peer-led public programming, including exhibitions, talks, and workshops, MESH_arts aims to foster inquisitive practices and expand critical conversations on the role of art, and the impacts of technology on society and environment, while reimagining possible futures.

The inaugural exhibition of MESH_arts, Soft Screens, will run May 21 – June 21, 2026. It is co-curated by Isabella Indolfi and Paige King.

Soft Screens is a group exhibition about the interfaces of our hypermediated reality. Featuring artists Nouf Aljowaysir, Anna Frants, Alexandra Lerman, and Mari Nagem, Soft Screens explores the ways digital media subliminally shape our attention, habits, and agency. Bringing together practices that reflect on emergent technologies without strictly relying on them, Soft Screens traces the outline of our entanglement with ever-evolving digital systems and social structures.

Soft Screens
May 21 – June 21, 2026
Fridays–Saturdays, 1-6pm, & by appointment
Email Contact: [email protected]

Opening Reception
Thursday May 21, 6–9pm
RSVP: https://luma.com/9ypqv3vx

MESH_Center for Art, Research, Technology, & Science
Address: The Old American Can Factory, 232 Third Street, , Brooklyn NY 11215

Please join tomorrow Wednesday, May 6, 6pm for the last screening of Mona Benyamin’s film Unravel, as part of OTHERWISE,...
05/05/2026

Please join tomorrow Wednesday, May 6, 6pm for the last screening of Mona Benyamin’s film Unravel, as part of OTHERWISE, the MA Class of 2026 Thesis Exhibition.

The work will screened at Preston Theater, Annandale Campus.

See you tomorrow!

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