Hosting Artists/Wrtiers/ Scholars at risk.

Hosting Artisits Protocols (the site provides ethical frameworks, not legal advice)

Hosting Artists Protocols is an independent, principles-based platform dedicated to developing clear, ethical, and operational mechanisms for hosting artists and writers at risk, while safeguarding their psychological, emotional, and intellectual well-being.

The primary purpose of this platform is to serve as a practical and ethical reference for organizations working in the field of artist protection, residency programs, and emergency hosting. It aims to support institutions in navigating the complex realities of hosting vulnerable artists within structured, institutional environments, without compromising legal obligations, professional standards, or human dignity.

This platform articulates clear protocols for:

  • Ensuring the mental and emotional safety of artists at risk
  • Managing power dynamics between host institutions and hosted artists
  • Establishing transparent expectations, boundaries, and responsibilities
  • Preventing ethical harm, symbolic violence, and institutional overreach

In addition, Hosting Artists Protocols addresses interpersonal and structural challenges that frequently arise in hosting contexts, including:

  • Situations of incompatibility or mutual non-alignment
  • Conflicts between artists and hosting institutions
  • Tensions or disputes between hosted artists
  • Cultural, political, or personal misunderstandings within shared spaces

Rather than framing these challenges as failures, the platform treats them as structural realities that require foresight, mediation frameworks, and ethical clarity.

Hosting Artists Protocols aspires to function as a ‘foundational charter’ for more responsible, humane, and professional practices in the field of artist protection. Its objective is not to weaken institutions, but to strengthen them, by promoting accountability, transparency, and ethical coherence while preserving institutional balance and legal integrity.

By documenting best practices, ethical boundaries, and operational models, Hosting Artists Protocols seeks to contribute to a more sustainable, respectful, and effective ecosystem for artists and writers at risk worldwide.

Protocols

Who is an Artist at Risk?

Protocol 01: Institutional Self-Awareness

Protocol 02: Priority of the Artist Over Institutional Authority

Protocol 03: Intelectual and Ideological independence of the hosted artist

Protocol 04: Justice, Transparency, and non-discrimination

Protocol 05: The Sanctity of the Symbol and The Primacy of Representation

Protocol 06: Red Flags

Protocol 07: Demonization of the Artist and Image Contamination to Protect Institutional Legitimacy

Protocol 08: Accusations and the right to self-defence

Protocol 09: Humilation and Psychological harm

Protocol 10: Psycholpathic operations can an orgnization fall into

Protocol 11: Soft Oppression and Institutional Deviation

Protocol 12: Control of Time and delibrate delay

About This Platform

I created this website and authored these protocols based on my own lived experience, as well as the experiences of many artists, writers, and scholars at risk who have spoken in isolation, often without protection, visibility, or safe channels to be heard.

What is written here names what is usually left unsaid.

These protocols were not written to attack institutions, but to challenge them to function more effectively, more fairly, and more ethically. Too often, organizations established to protect artists in danger unconsciously reproduce the very tools of oppression, silencing, and control that many of us were forced to flee in our countries of origin. This work exists to interrupt that cycle and to refocus protection on its core purpose: the safety, dignity, and freedom of the artist.

In developing these protocols, I used my own analysis and experience, and I also relied in part on artificial intelligence tools to help reorganize, clarify, and strengthen certain arguments, refine language, and structure the material in a more professional and coherent framework. This acknowledgment is made in the interest of intellectual honesty and transparency.

I invite any artist, writer, or scholar who has experienced any of the harmful practices described on this site to contact me privately by email. These communications will be treated as strictly confidential. No emails, names, or information will ever be published or shared without the explicit request and consent of the person concerned. Documenting experiences of institutional harm through private correspondence is a purely legal and protective measure, intended to preserve evidence and safeguard rights.

I also invite organizations that host artists, writers, and scholars at risk to contact me directly. I am open to engaging in training sessions, consultations, and workshops designed to improve institutional practices, strengthen ethical frameworks, and support crisis management without violating human rights, mental health, or freedom of expression.

This platform exists not to destroy institutions, but to help them do better—and to ensure that protection never becomes another form of harm.

Email: arahmani@anouarrahmani.com

  • Protocol 10: Psychopathic Operations Organizations Can Fall Into

    Organizations that host artists at risk are not immune to pathological behavior. Under reputational, financial, political, or internal pressure, some institutions drift into what psychology and organizational studies identify as psychopathic operational patterns. These patterns are not necessarily driven by clinically psychopathic individuals, but by systems that display emotional detachment, manipulation, instrumentalization of people, moral…

Anouar Rahmani

is a writer, novelist, journalist, human rghits defender, Law expert from Algeria, currently lives in exile, in usa, and He is a ‘Dangerous‘ artist at “Risk.”

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