In Response: We Fight to Build a Free World
In Response: We Fight to Build a Free World
Hear from Columbia Visual Arts students and alumni as they present new video, sound, and performance artworks responding to issues of authoritarianism, xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of bigotry.
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Jewish Museum online
April 18, 2021 | 4:00 pm
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About The Performance

Columbia University Visual Arts MFA candidates and recent alumni present new video, sound, and performance work during this live program, in response to We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz. This exhibition looked at how artists have historically responded to the rise of authoritarianism and xenophobia as well as racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of bigotry, also addressing issues surrounding immigration, assimilation, and cultural identity.

Participating Artists:

Aika Akhmetova
Lindsey Brittain Collins
Baris Gokturk
Juan Hernández Díaz
Yifan Jiang
Joseph Liatela
Kate Liebman
Paula Lycan
Cara Lynch
Farah Mohammad
Yi Sa-Ra

Image: Kate Liebman, video still from Legal Tender, 2020. Text by Kyle Dacuyan; music/sound by Michael Costagliola; performance by Andalyn Young and Kyle Dacuyan; with AntiGravity Performance Project / courtesy of The Jewish Museum