Public talk: Truth to power in the arts
About the speakers
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Bill Dietz
Bill Dietz is a composer and writer, born in Arizona. His work on genealogies of reception and the “political aesthetics of listening” is often presented in festivals, museums, and academic journals, but also in apartment buildings, magazines, and on public streets. Since 2012, he is co-chair of the Music/Sound Department in Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. In 2013 he co-founded Ear│Wave│Event with Woody Sullender. In late 2022 he was selected as the next Artistic Director of Overtoon - Platform for Sound Practitioners. -
Mary Ann DeVlieg
Mary Ann DeVlieg is an independent consultant and currently a PhD candidate researching policies and citizenship rights of artists impacted by displacement. She has been a case worker for persecuted artists since 2009. She works closely with the Council of Europe on artistic freedom initiatives. She curates and consults for trainings and conferences, including the annual Safe Havens conference, and for the Council of Europe. A co-founder of IARA, International Arts Rights Advisors, she founded the EU working group, Arts-Rights-Justice; was freeDimensional ’s Director of Strategic Development (2013-2015) and is a co-founder of the Arts-Rights-Justice Academy, University of Hildesheim. She has evaluated international cultural collaboration projects, policies and programmes for the European Commission's culture, research, and international development programmes, the EESC and private foundations. The former Secretary General of IETM (1994-2013), international network for contemporary performing arts, she founded/co-founded www.on-the-move.org and the Roberto Cimetta Fund for Mobility in the Mediterranean -
Tom Bonte
Tom Bonte is the general director of one of Belgium’s finest and best known concert venues Ancienne Belgique, in the heart of Brussels. He studied Art History at the University of Leuven and graduated with a study on the relation of German and Flemish Primitive Painting in the late medieval period He previously worked as the general and artistic director of Beursschouwburg in Brussels (2011-2020), as a programmer performing arts at art center Vooruit in Gent (2005-2011) and at the Antwerp deSingel arts center (2001-2004). Between 2017 and 2020 he was the president of the board of the Brussels Art Consultation (BKO), reuniting more then 100 organisations in the Brussels Art field. -
Yazan Khalili
Yazan Khalili lives and works in and out of Palestine, currently based in the Netherlands where he is pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam within the ImaginArt group. He is an artist, architect, and cultural producer. Khalili's work and research center around an affirmative critique of art production and cultural institutions, challenging their tools and reimagining their economy. His artworks have been exhibited in different exhibitions worldwide, including Documenta 15, MoMA in 2018, the Shanghai Biennial in 2016, and the Sharjah Biennial in 2013, among others. Additionally, he is the co-founder of the Question of Funding collective in 2019 and Radio Alhara in 2020.
