School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, in collaboration with East End Collaborations and the Live Art Development Agency (UK) What can performance do for human rights, and human rights for performance? PSi #12: Performing Rights will present an integrated schedule of conference and contextualising events. The Performing Rights Conference will comprise plenary sessions, curated panels, papers and presentations, in which contributors will engage with the political, aesthetic and philosophical dimensions of the relationship between performance and human rights, on topics ranging from public and collective acts of insurrection to the intimacies and fragility of individual freedom and subjectivity. Performing Rights Events will include performance interventions, presentations, installations, screenings and displays. There will be invited presentations, artist led laboratories, site experimentations and spontaneous interactions. These will attempt to create a context for exploring the role of performance and the responsibilities of artists in effecting political, social and cultural change. We aim to illuminate the creative strategies that artists and activists use to communicate issues of human rights and to empower artists, activists and audiences to be able to make a difference. For more information, CLICK HERE.