The CANCELLED Arts Programme was comprised of five main parts:
CANCELLED Platform
CANCELLED Dialogues
Six artists were
commissioned to create
new works of art, in any
medium, for performance or
exhibition at the Conference
as part of the CANCELLED
Platform. Each artist was paired with a conference
delegate. The artist-delegate partners exchanged
experiences and perspectives in the lead-up to
the conference, which fed into the artworks that
were produced for the conference. They were also
encouraged to present their experiences of working
together within the CANCELLED Arts Programme.
The CANCELLED
Dialogues were curated
conversations that took
place as key events within
the Conference. They
were interdisciplinary, nonhierarchical conversations convened by artists and
featuring non-artists as well, in response to artwork
or a social intervention of relevance. The Cancelled
Dialogues were:
CANCELLED Archive
The CANCELLED Archive
marks the beginnings
of a global collection of
artworks reflecting on
issues of statelessness. The
CANCELLED Archive exists
primarily as a virtual platform providing access to
artists and artworks that focus on statelessness.
Selected artworks from the CANCELLED Archive
featured at the Conference. It is intended that
the Archive will be maintained going forward,
becoming a global repository for artwork related to
statelessness.
CANCELLED Experiment
The CANCELLED
Experiment included
discrete artist interventions
challenging the structure,
process and programming of
the Conference. Interventions
included the use of signage to compel conference
participants to identify with one of two binary
categorisations (such as EU/Non-EU and female/
non-female), in order to invoke a deeper reflection
onto the identities that are imposed on us as
well as the implications of not fitting within such
identities (or being cancelled). On the last day of the
conference, the CANCELLED programme hosted
an Artist Audience Discussion entitled ‘Unpacking
the CANCELLED Experiment: A roundtable
discussion between artists and audience on what
was intended and what was experienced through
the CANCELLED Experiment’.
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CANCELLED: Risk
‘Discussing the politics of personal and institutional
risk within the issue of statelessness’
Professor, John Packer, in conversation with
Professor, David Cotterrell.
CANCELLED: Identity
‘Identities that exist at the exclusion of others with
an artwork as stimulus for conversation, artists and
activists discuss the politics of identities that are
defined by cancellation’
Artist, Manish Harijan; Lawyer, Cynthia Orchard;
Artist, Rana Bishara and Statelessness Activist,
Jawad Fairooz.
CANCELLED Bridge
The CANCELLED Bridge
aimed to connect the closed
space of the ISI World
Conference to the city of The
Hague and vice-versa. It
included a reception, hosted
in collaboration with the City of The Hague, at The
Hague Humanity Hub – home to a community of
innovators in peace, justice, and humanitarian
action.
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