Land of Human Rights
is a project dealing with the status quo of the human rights in Europe seen from the perspective of visual art. Starting by the end of 2007, over a period of three years analyses and visions of human rights issues in Europe will be developed and disseminated in the general public with the means of art. The planned activities – exhibitions inside and outside the gallery space, poster campaigns, media projects, film programmes, theoretical discourse etc – are supposed to reach a broad audience and shall make us aware of the following fact: In many respects the observance of human rights is not guaranteed “in front of our doors” too!
Land of Human Rights is a joint project of < rotor > association for contemporary art, Graz http://rotor.mur.at, University of J.E. Purkyně, Ústí nad Labem www.fuud.ujep.cz riesa efau | Motorenhalle, Dresden www.motorenhalle.de, Trafó Gallery, Budapest www.trafo.hu
Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana www.galerija.skuc-drustvo.si
g - mk | galerija miroslav kraljević, Zagreb, www.g-mk.hr
These six art institutions have jointly developed the “Land of Human Rights”. The different parts of the program – exhibitions inside and outside the gallery space, poster campaigns, media projects, film programmes, residency programmes, theoretical discourse etc – are conceived and carried out on the institutions own authority. In terms of content a knowledge transfer takes place regarding questions of arts and human rights as well as an interchange of experts: artists who deal with aspects of the human rights discourse will present their work resp. develop new works – in communication with human rights activists and researchers