Artists in Times of Upheaval: Censorship today with Tribe Arts

What happens to art when speech is monitored, platforms are fragile and making work comes with risk?

This conversation with Tribe Arts opens up a wider programme of dialogue they are developing around censorship in the arts and the realities of making work in times of war, conflict and political repression.

Chaired by broadcaster and author Nihal Arthanayake, Tajpal Rathore and Samran Rathore – co-directors of Tribe Arts – consider these questions as artists whose practice has consistently responded to the pressures of the present moment. For over a decade, their theatre and media work has confronted questions of power, representation and resistance – often at the point where art meets surveillance, funding structures and public scrutiny.

This conversation with Tribe Arts was recorded live at Aviva Studios on 28 March 2026.