Event
On an Island: Defending the Right to Create - Breakout Session at Creative Time Summit
Nov 3, 2018
Saturday, November 3, 2018
3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
The Jewel Box
Young Arts Foundation
2100 Biscayne Boulevard
Miami, FL
33137
Join us for a Breakout Session exploring the complexities of artists' rights to create and dissent. In an engaging workshop, Cuban artists Yanelys Nuñez Leyva and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara will share strategies to overcome restrictions on freedom of expression, inspired by their current effort to overturn Decree 349. Julie Trebault (Artists at Risk Connection) and Alison Russo (Artist Protection Fund) will discuss their experience leading innovative platforms serving artists at risk. Pairing distinguished sets of expertise, the speakers will shed light on diverse ways to connect with the international community of artistic freedom defenders.
The event "On an Island: Defending the Right to Create" is part of the Creative Time Summit 2018 and takes place alongside multiple sessions and activities addressing this edition's theme "On Archipelagos & Other Imaginaries: Collective Strategies to Inhabit the World".
Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) is an initiative of PEN America dedicated to assisting imperiled artists and fortifying the field of organizations that support them.
Yanelys Nuñez Leyva is a Cuban curator, art historian, and a founder of The Museum of Dissidence in Cuba (Museo de la Disidencia en Cuba), a digital public art project that aims to reclaim the word “dissident” by hosting radical installations and opening political dialogues.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is a Cuban artist and co-founder of The Museum of Dissidence in Cuba. Also with Nuñez Leyva, he leads the alternative #00Bienal de la Habana, which attracted intense scrutiny by authorities—and international solidarity.
Julie Trebault is the Director of PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection (ARC). ARC aims to safeguard the right to artistic freedom of expression and to ensure that artists everywhere can work without fear. Designed as an interactive hub to gather and share the forms of assistance available, ARC strengthens connections between artists at risk and the organizations that support them. Prior to joining PEN, she served as Director of Public Programs at the Museum of the City of New York.
Alison Russo is the Director of IIE’s Artist Protection Fund (APF). Alison joined IIE in 2015, having most recently curated and managed the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Programs, to design and develop the new APF Program. The APF fills a gap in assistance for threatened artists by exploring innovative ways to respond to the specific needs of these artists by constructing a comprehensive, collaborative and socially engaged program that stands as a leader in the artistic freedom and freedom of expression movements.
This event is part of the 11th Creative Time Summit under the heading "On Archipelagos & Other Imaginaries: Collective Strategies to Inhabit the World". For three days, thinkers, dreamers and doers will convene in Miami, Florida to connect and expand their work on the intersection of art and politics. The distinguished program will address the subjects of immigration and borders, climate realities, notions of intersectional justice, gentrification, tourism as an enabler for neocolonialism, and the roles art and activism can play in all these pressing issues. Community-driven breakout sessions, social events, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panels will be complemented with field trips, interactive performances and screenings. The sessions encourage over 1,000 international and local attendees to share tools, strategies, and actions.
The 2018 Creative Time Summit is co-presented with Art in Public Places of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs with leading support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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