The Resonance of Resurgence (RoR) Project

The Resonance of Resurgence project, led by Kathy Moscou and Julia Rose Sutherland, is a collaboration inspired by key human rights reports such as the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and others. It emphasizes personal narratives and cultural intersections, particularly focusing on the Black diaspora and Indigenous experiences within these reports. Through immersive installations, the project aims to celebrate and revitalize Indigenous languages, exploring the joy of reconnecting with ancestral tongues, while also interrogating the concept of 'report' by embracing various forms of truth, including personal, social, and restorative truth as recognized by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Resonance of Resurgence serves as a cross-cultural dialogue, engaging with themes and issues found in these reports to broaden the conversation on human rights and reconciliation.

Learn more about the Resonance of Resurgence project on the Art Rights Truth website.

About Art+Rights+Truth

Human rights reports usually draw on a traditional human rights methodology, fact finding or documentation, with a view to identifying a violation, violator and remedy, and ‘naming and shaming’ the perpetrator. The truth is presented as objective and impartial. Reports represent a technical, detail-led, and legal form of speaking truth to power, usually addressing the government of the day. In this call artists were invited to respond to a human rights report, either by reframing the report in a different genre, an innovative form, or within a new meta-narrative. Artists were also invited to question the notion of ‘truth’. Human rights reports typically focus on forensic truth (rooted in the legal understanding of truth, as objective, corroborated evidence). Drawing on the report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, we recognise the importance of other forms of truth: personal and narrative truth; social or ‘dialogue’ truth; and healing and restorative truth. At the end of Conversations with REPORTS, we will bring artists and activists together to share their process and work. 

Art Rights Truth is a research project led by the Centre for Applied Human Rights and the History of Art Department at the University of York, UK funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.

REB Number: 2024-34.

Questions?

Please direct all inquiries and questions to
RoR_project@ocadu.ca