The invisibilization of political violence its material traces and spatial manifestations
characterize (post)conflict situations. Yet counter-semantics and dissonant narratives that
challenge this invisibility have been articulated by artists writers and human rights
activists that increasingly seek to contest the related historical amnesia. Adopting
performance as a concept that is defined by repetitive aesthetic practices-such as speech and
bodily habits through which both individual and collective identities are constructed and
perceived (Susan Slyomovics)-this collection addresses various forms of performing human rights
in transitional situations in Spain Latin America and the Middle East. Bringing scholars
together with artists writers and curators and working across a range of disciplines
Performing Human Rights addresses these instances of omission and neglect revealing how
alternate institutional spaces and strategies of cultural production have intervened in the
processes of historical justice and collective memory.With contributions by Zahira
Aragüete-Toribio Pauline Bachmann Vikki Bell Liliana Gómez Joscelyn Jurich Uriel Orlow
Friederike Pannewick Elena Rosauro Dorota Sajewska Stephenie Young.
