The Project

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Hunar  brings minds together from academia and arts, working on and responding to conflict spaces. 

Bringing together artists and scholars, the 2022 conference explored the utility and inherent value of cultural products in places that have experienced conflict, crisis and colonisation - both contemporaneously and in the past. In an era when the arts and culture have suffered disproportionately, projects like this are crucial for our societies. Conference talks and themes are being developed into a special issue with University of Canberra's Axon: Creative Expressions. The conference coincided with an exhibition, 'Missing Time', and public art event. 

Hunar's objectives

• Create a space of discourse in which nuanced and considered discourse about the employment of art in societies which have experienced current or past trauma through war, violence or conflict are explored. 
• Create an international network of theorists and practitioners who can support each other
• Elevate the profile of local artists and the role of arts more generally to local and global communities. 
• Archive, through publication, the current social and political moment and arts’ response.