Does solidarity have an aesthetic? How would we recognize or define such a thing? How might it challenge our assumptions about what art is and does?

Building on Hannah Feldman and Rebecca Johnson’s investigations of “solidarity aesthetics,” this online conference will focus on the formal and stylistic techniques of the literary, visual, and sonic cultures of solidarity activism, setting them in relation to this work’s political commitments and its efforts to catalyze, sustain, and expand particular movements and mobilizations.

In these three virtual panels, participants will discuss the cultural production of both contemporary and past solidarity movements across different historical conjunctures, geographies, genres, and political struggles.

This conference is being organized by members of the International Solidarity Action Research Network.

Art by: Marishka Soekarna @drawmama 2024, Palestine Poster Project Archives