Hunar Symposia
Art, artists and art practices responding to
conflict, crisis, and colonisation.
Hunar Symposia
Art, artists and art practices responding to
conflict, crisis, and colonisation.
Art, artists and art practices responding to
conflict, crisis, and colonisation.
Art, artists and art practices responding to
conflict, crisis, and colonisation.
The Hunar team recognise the sovereignty of the original custodians of the lands we all work and live. We stand with First Nations peoples in Australia and elsewhere, and we respect their elders past and present. Always was always will be, Aboriginal land.
Click here for Hunar's position on Palestine.
Hunar means art in Dari or Persian. Art is at the heart of what we do.
Hunar engages in cultural inquiry and its intersections with society, politics, identity, gender and race. At its core, Hunar’s approach is epistemological. That is, we explore the origins of existing knowledges, and seek to create new knowledges embedded in the lived experiences of groups whose identities, histories, contributions, languages, cultures and communities have been erased through the ongoing impacts of colonisation, crisis and conflict. Through our events, exhibitions, conversations and relationships, we aspire to remedy what we can of this erasure.
We work in abundance, and we invite you to join our movement.
We're excited to be working with University of Canberra's Axon: Creative Explorations Journal, to bring you a special issue of all the talks you loved in 2022. Coming late 2024.
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In 2022 we hosted an EPIC range of talks. We're slowly uploading a tonne of material online, including conference recordings, exhibition photos, and happy snaps from the public art mural.
Eleven is a collective of contemporary Muslim Australian artists, curators, and writers who aim to establish an independent creative platform from which the alternative narratives and autonomous voice of Muslim artists can be expressed, shared, and experienced. Eleven uniquely straddles contemporary art, academia, and grassroots community engagement with the intent to amplify the intellectual, robust, and dynamic conversations about Muslim artists in Australia.
Hunar Symposia is supported by the UTS Gallery & Art Collection and the UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion.
Located on the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Ultimo campus, UTS Gallery & Art Collection presents the work of contemporary artists and designers through an annual public exhibition program complemented by curated events, publications, and learning programs for high school and tertiary students.
The Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion is a gateway for partners and communities to engage with the university's resources and expertise to maximise social impact.
we are the mainstream is a collective of First Nations, Women of Colour and Gender Diverse folk of Colour, created to elevate our experiences, celebrate our stories, advocate for our causes and educate ourselves and the wider community on how to do authentic cross-community solidarity by using whatever privilege and power we may hold. We aim to create safe spaces where we can have courageous conversations and challenge systems and structures of power.
Refugee Art Project is a not-for-profit community art organisation which Since 2011 has engaged with people who came to Australia seeking protection from such countries as Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, the Kurdish regions of the Middle East, Syria, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. In a spirit of collaboration, artworks are curated and shown in public exhibitions, online and in self- published zines. The intention is to facilitate the agency and self expression of people of an asylum seeker or refugee background, to deepen public understanding about the asylum seeker issue and the realities of Australia’s detention regime.
The collective Aparecidos Políticos is an activist art group created by artists, activists and academics aiming to raise awareness and resist the heritages of dictatorial repression within the current Brazilian democracy. Relying on aesthetic-political practices such as urban interventions, escraches, performances, independent publications, and radio-guerrilla actions the group intend to create insurrectional experiences and promote human rights. Active since 2010, the collective Aparecidos Políticos has been exhibiting and discussing their works within artistic, activist, and academic domains, committed to exploring the possibilities offered by the interplay between art and politics.
Improv Theatre Sydney is a creative, inclusive and world-class school for students of improvisation. They are Sydney’s first and only dedicated improv theatre. Improv is by its nature participatory and is emboldened by a diversity within its audiences and performers. ITS aims to provide a space where all people can perform together, embracing the mosaic of Sydney’s multiculturalism, religious plurality, gender and sexual diver
Greek Atlas League is a progressive community organisation which for over 80 years has worked to create spaces of dialogue and learning, through public lectures and cultural activities. The Greek Atlas League has a historic building in Marrickville, NSW where they provide public lecture, exhibition and theatre spaces to projects in line with its values.
SSI is a community organisation and social business that supports newcomers and other Australians to achieve their full potential. We work with all people who have experienced vulnerability, including refugees, people seeking asylum and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, to build capacity and enable them to overcome inequality.
Hunar Symposia Exhibition and Mural was supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Hunar Symposia Conference was supported by the University of Technology through the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion's Social Impact Grants and grant matched by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Hunar Symposia Exhibition was supported by the City of Sydney's Cultural grant.
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