Creative Court is an organisation that develops art projects and reflects on peace and justice. Creative Court is based in

The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...

, Netherlands. It was founded in November 2013.

''And Now I Am Here''

Project description

In 2015 two journalists, Els Duran and Evelien Vehof, conducted interviews regarding statelessness in Europe in which they came across complicated regulations, coping mechanisms and pragmatism. Creative Court developed the video installation ''And Now I Am Here'' based upon these findings. This video installation questioned feelings of displacement from various angles through the use of interviews, excerpts and quotes from literature and philosophy were merged with the images of video artist Farah Rahman, whose work revolves around migration. This video installation was created as part of the framework of the Europe by People arts and design programme which took place during the Dutch presidency of the

Council of the European Union The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and less formally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven institutions of the European Union (EU) a ...

in 2016.

Artists and experts involved

*Video artist: Farah Rahman *Research and interviews: Giselle Vegter, Els Duran, Evelien Vehof *Interpretation and translations: Carlijn Teeven, Myrte Sara Huyts, Morgan Mekertichian *Production: Anja Janssen *Artistic and business management: Creative Court

Exhibitions

*, Nijmegen *

Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ ( English: "Music Building on the IJ") is the main concert hall for contemporary classical music on the IJ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building opened in 2005 and is located above the IJtunnel, a ten-minute walk from ...

, Amsterdam *Compagnietheater, Amsterdam *The Wall, Amsterdam

Recognition

''Articles'' *Compagnietheatre (Dutch) *Europe by People (English) *Montesquieu Instituut (English) * Nederlands Kamerkoor (Dutch) * Nederlands Kamerkoor (English) ''Radio'' *Kunst en Cultuur op Vrijdag on AmsterdamFM (Dutch)

''Post-Conflict Mind Check''

Project description

''Post-Conflict Mind Check'' (working title ''The Ghost of Tito'') is a tongue-in-cheek prototype card game created by Creative Court and MediaLAB about culture, history, conflict, and stereotypes in the six countries that once made up the former Yugoslavia. The game aims to engage players with socially taboo topics and unconventional content. It was developed in 2015 to be used for personal reflection and critical thinking about post-war legacy in the former Yugoslavia.

Artists and experts involved

*Commissioner: Creative Court *Project mentor: Tamara Pinos *Students: Jon Jonoski (MA media studies), Jennifer Lamphere (MA history) and Liliana Zambrano (BA industrial design)

Presentations

*MediaLAB, Amsterdam

Recognition

''Blog'' *''Post-Conflict Mind Check'', MediaLAB (English)

''Rooms of Humanity''

Project description

With

De Balie De Balie is a Dutch organization that produces independent journalistic programs about art, culture and politics. De Balie is located at Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, near Leidseplein in Amsterdam. History When the 19th-century building of the ...

, a centre for freedom of speech, art, politics, culture, cinema and media in Amsterdam, Creative Court produced ''Rooms of Humanity'', a reflective programme, around (in)humanity in times of war and genocide. It debuted in The Netherlands at De Balie in Amsterdam on Saturday, 19 September 2015. The theatre installation consists of the ''Room of Game'', the ''Room of Propaganda'', the ''Room of Acts for Humanity'', and the ''Room of Questions and Answers'' and includes photographic and textual visuals, an audio installation, as well as group activities and discussions. ''Rooms of Humanity'' connects to themes such as individual and collective responsibility, exclusion, war, genocide, (in)humanity, propaganda, and the dynamic between victim – perpetrator – bystander.

Artists and experts involved

*Artistic directors: Ilil Land-Boss (Israel-Germany) and Giselle Vegter (the Netherlands) *Scenic design: Karin Betzler *Business management: Creative Court *Special guest speakers: **Nenad Fišer, a philosopher and former employee of the

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to tr ...

in The Hague **Erna Rijsdijk, a university lecturer in military ethics at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA) **Inger Schaap, a historian and the national director of

Humanity in Action Humanity in Action is an international nonprofit organization that educates and connects young people who seek to become leaders on issues related to human and minority rights. The organization, founded in 1997, maintains offices in seven countri ...

in the Netherlands **

Uğur Ümit Üngör Uğur Ümit Üngör (born in Erzincan, 1980) is a Dutch–Turkish academic, historian, sociologist, and professor of Genocide studies, specializing as a scholar and researcher of Holocaust studies and studies on mass violence. He served as Prof ...

, a sociologist, political historian, and genocide researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies *Moderator: Markha Valenta, a professor of American studies at

Radboud University Nijmegen Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, , formerly ) is a public university, public research university located in Nijmegen, Netherlands. RU has seven faculties and more than 24,000 students. Established in 1923, Radboud University has consistentl ...

Exhibitions

*Theatre installation, De Balie, Amsterdam

Recognition

''Articles'' *What is Happening Now? (English) ''Radio'' *Dichtbij Nederland (Dutch)

''Africans and Hague Justice''

Project description

Creative Court curated a selection of African cartoons that reflect on the

International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organization and International court, international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute ...

. The selection was made in the framework of the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Afrika Studies conference, Africans and Hague Justice, Realities and Perceptions of the International Criminal Court in Africa, which took place at

The Hague University of Applied Sciences The Hague University of Applied Sciences (abbreviated as: ''THUAS''; ) is a university of applied sciences with its campuses located in The Hague, Delft and Zoetermeer. The main campus in The Hague is located behind The Hague Hollands Spoor ra ...

in May 2014.

Artists involved

The following cartoonists are represented in the collection: Alphonce 'Ozone' Omondi (Kenya), Brandan Reynolds (South Africa), Cuan Miles (South Africa), Damien Glez (Burkina Faso/France), Mohammed 'Dr. Meddy' Jumanne (Tanzania), Godfrey 'Gado' Mwampembwa (Tanzania), Jonathon 'Zapiro' Shapiro (South Africa),

Khalid Albaih Khalid Albaih or Khalid Wad Albaih (; born 22 April 1980) is a Sudanese political cartoonist, civil rights activist and freelance journalist, who grew up as member of the Sudanese diaspora in Doha, Qatar. He has published his social and political ...

(Sudan/Qatar), Khalil Bendib (Algeria/US), Popa 'Kamtu' Matumula (Tanzania), Roland Polman (Ivory Coast), Talal Nayer (Sudan/Tunisia), Tayo Fatunla (UK/Nigeria), and Victor Ndula (Kenya).

Exhibitions

*Post-Conflict group exhibition, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo *Post-Conflict group exhibition, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art Gallery, New York *''Africans and Hague Justice'', African Studies Centre,

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a Protestant institution, it holds the distinction of being the oldest university in the Neth ...

*''Africans and Hague Justice'', The Hague University of Applied Science

Recognition

''Articles'' *Leiden University *''

Daily Nation The ''Daily Nation'' is a Kenyan newspaper. It was founded in 1958 and is published in Nairobi. History The ''Daily Nation'' was started in the year 1958 as a Swahili weekly called ''Taifa'' by the Englishman Charles Hayes. It was bought in 1 ...

'' *ILG2 *Creating Rights * Coalition for the International Criminal Court#globalJUSTICE ''Television'' *''The Docket'' on

MSNBC MSNBC is an American cable news channel owned by the NBCUniversal News Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. Launched on July 15, 1996, and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, the channel primarily broadcasts r ...

''Rwanda 20 Years: Portraits of Reconciliation''

Project description

Creative Court developed a photography project that reflects on forgiveness in post-genocide Rwanda. They commissioned South African photographer

Pieter Hugo Pieter Hugo (born 1976) is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture. He lives in Cape Town.Leah Ollman (9 February 2007)Photography that goes only skin deep''Los Angeles Times''. Hugo has had four monographs published. H ...

and Croatian-Dutch photographer Lana Mesić to try and capture the nature of forgiveness. The project includes photographs, interviews, and videos.

Exhibitions

*Anatomy of Forgiveness, AMC Brummelkamp Galerie, Amsterdam *Art Rotterdam Prospects and Concepts Exhibition, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam *Harry Pennings Award group exhibition, Galerie Pennings, Eindhoven *Exhibition, Organ Vida International Photography Festival 7th ed, Zagreb *Exhibition, Goethe Institut Kigali, Kigali *Post-Conflict group exhibition, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo *Post-Conflict group exhibition, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art Gallery, New York *Exhibition, Het Nutshuis, The Hague *Outdoor mini exhibition, Central Station, The Hague *Outdoor mini exhibition,

, The Hague *Outdoor mini exhibition,

Peace Palace The Peace Palace ( ; ) is an international law administrative building in The Hague, Netherlands. It houses the International Court of Justice (which is the principal judicial body of the United Nations), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PC ...

, The Hague *Mini exhibition,

The Hague City Hall The Hague City Hall () is the city hall of The Hague, Netherlands. History The city hall was designed in 1986 by the American architect Richard Meier and completed in 1995. Architecture It is located in the new city centre, and incorporate ...

, The Hague

Recognition

''Articles'' *''The Calvert Journal'' (English) *''Feature Shoot'' (English) *''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'' (English) *Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda Netherlands (English + Dutch) *''

Time Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...

'' Lightbox (English) *

United States Institute of Peace The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American independent, nonprofit, national institute funded by the U.S. Congress and tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide. See alsPDF on USIP website. It provides rese ...

Global Peacebuilding Center (English) *''

The Huffington Post ''HuffPost'' (''The Huffington Post'' until 2017, itself often abbreviated as ''HPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and covers p ...

'' (English) *Future TV Network (Arabic) *''

New Statesman ''The New Statesman'' (known from 1931 to 1964 as the ''New Statesman and Nation'') is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first c ...

'' (English) *''Reading The Pictures'' (formerly BagNews) (English) *''Everyday Ambassador'' (English) *''

The Hairpin ''The Hairpin'' was a women's writer-led website in ''The Awl'' network. It was founded in 2010 by Edith Zimmerman. It ceased publication at the end of January 2018. From 2013 to 2014, ''The Hairpin'' was edited by Emma Carmichael, with Jia Tol ...

'' (English) *''Episcopal Café'' (English) *''Glamour'' Paris (French) *AfriqueConnection.com (French) *EO Beam (Dutch) *IGIHE (Kinyarwanda) *''Religion Factor'' (English) *''Kontrapress'' (Serbian) *''Blogg HD''(Swedish) *''Who Cares'' (Dutch) *''Liberal Planet'' (English) *''Common Dreams'' (English) *''Tabnak'' (Persian) *''Mad House News'' (Russian) *''Domingo El Universal'' (Spanish) *''Los Herrajeros'' (Spanish) *''La Nacion'' (Spanish) *''Moscabranca ''(Portuguese) *''Inspirulina'' (Spanish) *''Le Vif'' (French) *''Chatelaine'' (English) *RonnieArias.com (Spanish) *''Nafir'' (Persian) *''Noor News'' (Persian) *''Sadkhabar'' (Persian) *''Parsine'' (Persian) *''

De Volkskrant ''De Volkskrant'' (; ), stylized as de Volkskrant, is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium- ...

'' (Dutch) *''Filosofie'' (Dutch) *''Jewish Journal'' (English) *''Revolución 3.0'', Argos media (Spanish) *

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the p ...

(English) *''IBA Global Healing'' (English) *Sentidos Comunes (Spanish) *Incubadora de Artistas (Portuguese) *Para Ti Magazine (Spanish) *Fondazione Camis de Fonseca (Italian) *Memory Machine (Dutch) *Westminster Chapel (English) *Art Annual Online (Japanese) *Ousferrats (Spanish) *Inya Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) *Fuett.mx (Spanish) *40 Cheragh (Persian) *Beelddragers (Dutch) *Diaspora Enligne (French) *Partido Socialista (Spanish) *Acción Preferente (Spanish) *''

Reader's Digest ''Reader's Digest'' is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922 by DeWitt Wallace and his wi ...

'' (English) *''

The Courier Mail ''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern ...

'' (English) * RYOT News & Action (English) *''

Marie Claire ''Marie Claire'' (stylized in all lowercase; ) is a French international monthly magazine first published in France in 1937. Since then various editions are published in many countries and languages. The feature editions focus on women aro ...

'' South Africa (English) *Den Haag Direct (Dutch) *''Musée Digital Magazine'' (English) *Dar lugar (Spanish) *MiNDFOOD (English) *''

Greenpeace Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of Environmental movement, environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its biod ...

Magazin'' (German) *''

The East African ''The EastAfrican'' is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya since 7 November 1994, by the Nation Media Group, which also publishes Kenya's national ''Daily Nation''. The ''EastAfrican'' also circulates in the other countries of the African Grea ...

'' (English) * Coalition for the International Criminal Court#globalJUSTICE (English) *

Citizens for Global Solutions Citizens for Global Solutions is a grassroots-level membership organization in the United States working towards the establishment of a world government in order to avoid future atomic wars. It has promoted a world federal government, United ...

(English) *A Journey into Holocaust & Genocide Education (English) *

Invisible Children ''Invisible Children'' is a 2006 American documentary film which depicts the human rights abuses by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Synopsis In the spring of 2003, Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey, and Laren Poole traveled to Africa to docum ...

(English) *Creating Rights (English) *Human Trustees (English) * NRC (Dutch) *New Dawn (Dutch) *''A Pattern A Day'' (English) *

Index.hr Index.hr is a Croatian Tabloid journalism, tabloid-like online newspaper, launched in December 2002 and based in Zagreb. It was founded by Matija Babić and was originally designed as a News aggregator, news aggregation website, providing news co ...

(Croatian) ''Radio and television'' * Q on

CBC Radio One CBC Radio One is the English-language news and information radio network of the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial-free and offers local and national programming. It is available on AM and FM to 98 percent o ...

in Canada (English) *Schepper & Co Radio (English) *The Docket on

(English) *Ebony Life Television (English) *Globo.tv (Portuguese) *Prime 10 TV (Kinyarwanda + English)

Partners and funding

Association Modeste et Innocent (Rwanda), City of The Hague,

Doctors Without Borders Doctor, Doctors, The Doctor or The Doctors may refer to: Titles and occupations * Physician, a medical practitioner * Doctor (title), an academic title for the holder of a doctoral-level degree ** Doctorate ** List of doctoral degrees awarded ...

, Foundation for Democracy and Media,

Goethe-Institut The Goethe-Institut (; GI, ''Goethe Institute'') is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit German culture, cultural organization operational worldwide with more than 150 cultural centres, promoting the study of the German language abroad and en ...

Kigali (Rwanda), Haagse Hogeschool (The Hague School of Applied Sciences), Hogeschool INHolland, Huis van Gedichten, Humanity House,

International Institute of Social Studies The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam is an independent international graduate school of policy-oriented social science. ISS was established in 1952 by Dutch universities and the Netherlands Mini ...

, Justitia et Pax, Karekezi Film Productions (Rwanda),

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

, Liberation Festival the Hague / Bevrijdingsfestival Den Haag, Mediaridders, Mondrian Fund,Mondriaan Fonds, Creative Court – Rwanda 20 years, http://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/gehonoreerd/creative-court-rwanda-20-years/ Mukomeze Foundation, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Afrika Studies (NVAS), NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies / Nationaal Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies (NIOD), Nutshuis Den Haag,

Prince Claus Fund The Prince Claus Fund was established in 1996 and named after Prince Claus of the Netherlands. It is annually subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Since 1997, the Fund has annually presented the international Prince Claus Award ...

Tilburg University Tilburg University is a Catholic research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg, Netherlands. Tilburg has a student population of about 19,1 ...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, loc ...

, amongst others.

References

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