{"id":7064,"date":"2019-05-15T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:07:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:07:53","slug":"empathy-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/empathy-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Empathy & Risk’ – Interdisciplinary initiative addressing systemic failure in contemporary crises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Empathy & Risk<\/em><\/a> is an artist-led inter-disciplinary initiative that addresses issues of systemic failure in contexts of contemporary global crisis.<\/p>\n

The initiative was born out of a conviction that artists\u2019 perspectives have an important role to play in the framing of international, national and institutional responses to threat and conflict.\u00a0 Empathy & Risk<\/em> believes that the capacity of the arts to effectively influence policy development has not been systematically explored, exploited or applied.<\/p>\n

Empathy & Risk<\/em> draws on a body of international artists, academics and practitioners who work in sites of publicly acknowledged empathetic breakdown \u2013 curating responses from within the people, policies and processes of these sites.\u00a0 The evidence of these interventions will contribute to a body of comparative international research and artwork, aimed at influencing policy formulation at national and international level.<\/p>\n

The idea for\u00a0Empathy & Risk<\/em>\u00a0initially grew out of the several visits made by David Cotterrell<\/a> to Afghanistan and Pakistan between the years 2008 and 2015.\u00a0The Empathy and Risk<\/em> project\u00a0<\/strong>was then developed by David and Ruwanthie de Chickera<\/a> from 2015 \u2013 2018.\u00a0\u00a0During this time,\u00a0Empathy & Risk<\/em>\u00a0existed in the form of discrete and itinerant artist interventions into sites of perceived conflict.<\/p>\n

In 2018,\u00a0Empathy & Risk<\/em>\u00a0curated its first multi-disciplinary programme at the Ubumuntu Festival<\/a> \u2013 combining a theatre performance with a researched visual-art installation and connecting these\u00a0art works\u00a0to two interdisciplinary panel discussions.\u00a0Empathy & Risk\u00a0<\/em>was officially launched as a project in June 2019 with the support of the Art and Design Research Centre<\/a> at Sheffield Hallam University and at the venue of the World Conference of Statelessness<\/a> in the Hague.<\/p>\n

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Empathy & Risk is an artist-led inter-disciplinary initiative that addresses issues of systemic failure in contexts of contemporary global crisis. The initiative was born out of a conviction that artists\u2019 perspectives have an important role to play in the framing of international, national and institutional responses to threat and conflict.\u00a0 Empathy & Risk believes that the capacity of the arts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":7066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,891,1085,109,1176,892],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-david-cotterrell","tag-empathy-risk","tag-fine-art-research","tag-institute-of-statelessness-and-inclusion","tag-ruwanthie-de-chickera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/05\/2019-Empathy-Risk.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1PW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10024,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/david-cotterrell-mexico\/","url_meta":{"origin":7064,"position":0},"title":"‘Dear Aliens, We are Ready’ – Professor David Cotterrell’s ‘Mazar, Texas’ exhibited at Galeria de la Ciudad, Mexico","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"08\/04\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Aliens, We Are Ready - 09 April 2021 - 20 June 2021 Professor David Cotterrell's work, Mazar, Texas will be shown at the Galeria de la Ciudad, Tecate, Mexico. 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