Nobel Peace Center

Oslo World Seminar: Rob Young in conversation with: Rossy de Palma, Yasmine Hamdan and Tumi aka. Stogie T, about the importance of art in the society. Some of the topics of the talk is in what way an antidote, avant-garde art can be the weapon to fighting populism. And that art not only can generate new discourses and integrating new ideas, but that it also can generate empathy and reveal complex dynamics of human psychology. Rob Young conversate with the three icons, who through their artistic production have revealed complex dynamics of identity, sexuality and gender construction, which has undoubtedly generated an anti-discourse that has triggered social and cultural transformations.