Tania El Khoury: Cultural Exchange Rate

Tania El Khoury is a live artist whose work focuses on audience interactivity and its political potential. She creates installations and performances in which the audience is a witness and an active collaborator. Tania’s work has been translated to multiple languages and shown in 32 countries across 6 continents in spaces ranging from national museums to boats in the Mediterranean. She is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Soros Art Fellowship, and others. She is Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater & Performance and the Director of the Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College. She is associated with Forest Fringe collective of artists in the UK and is a co-founder of the urban research and live art collective, Dictaphone Group in Lebanon.

Laurel V. McLaughlin, PhD, is a curator, art historian, writer, and educator whose work explores research-based sculpture, installation, new media, and social practice. She is a Curator and the Director of the Collective Futures Fund at Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston. Her work has been published in Art Papers, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and many other journals. She co-edited the interdisciplinary reader Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production with Carrie Robbins (Amherst College Press, 2024). McLaughlin is currently undertaking research for a forthcoming exhibition How do you throw a brick through a window…. as an Andy Warhol Curatorial Research Fellow.