Is it always so? 

In Human Rights? artists speak about human rights. The title, simple and direct, without roundabout expressions, expresses the main idea which must go with everybody’s life.

In this event, uncomfortable, complex and denunciation subjects are dealt with,  in order to sting the conscience of all those who, enjoying their own rights, don’t think about all people whose rights are violated every day.

 

The logic of Human Rights? is based on the fundamental concept of art as a universal  expressive form, understandable by everybody regardless of his language and culture, regardless of his gender, of the subject and of the languages used.

Languages vary depending on the artists’ experience and mastery, and they create new relationships with the audience, who approaches art feeling immediately involved and directly concerned. Discomfort images, violated rights images, images about everyday stories which should not exist, but even images which are able to deal with a delicate and difficult subject with wisdom and, why not, irony.

 

The exhibition will highlight different ways to see the matter, since the event is open to artists from all over the world. It becomes so particularly interesting to discover in which way the perception of the concept of “respect of the rights” is experienced and expressed.

 

The event aims to shake consciences: it deeply wants to avoid common places brought by word abuse: to speak about human rights has become so common that the words “human rights violation” are deprived of all meaning and by now they touch us only at a distance when we hear them, without getting them into our heads.

 

The most immediate way to retrieve that conscience, essential to be really part of a system which respects everybody’s rights, is to see with one’s eyes all that artists have to say. Images insert themselves in one’s memory in such an immediate and strong way that all those who visit it will leave it more conscious and emotionally involved.

 

To speak about human rights, according to  artists, means to “pull out” many ideas which can’t find the space fit for the purpose in other events.

Human Rights? wants to be a strong signal to all the artists and to all those who will visit it.

 

 

Info: hr@spaziotempoarte.com

 

 

 

 

THE LOCATION

 

The event is managed with the active cooperation of ADISS Onlus from Caserta, which promotes the Free Children project. ADISS was born with the concrete intent to take sports, above all football, to the suburbs  of small and big cities, in forgotten hamlets, involving and fostering children and young people participation.

With the project called “FREE CHILDREN”, ADISS opened free football schools and  didactic labs  for hundreds of minors at risk of poverty and school dispersion, developing a new and effective net among all social and institutional actors in the involved territories and becoming a real chance, a reference point.

 

There will be the opening on 11^th September 2009. 11^th September is the anniversary of one of the greatest tragedies in contemporary history: the Twin Towers terroristic attack.

During the ceremony on Friday 11^th September there will take place artistic performances in order to remember the attack, expressed through art language.

 

Further events can take place during all the weekend and all the next weekends, even during the  Saturday morning dedicated to children and school boys.

At the opening ceremony there will be the speech of Amnesty International representatives, with whom there is the hope to cooperate during the exhibition.

 

During the opening ceremony the Free Children  project will be highlighted since ADISS Onlus has recently dealt with it in Brazil.

 

There will be a link with the shantytown where ADISS has performed its voluntary service and the World March for Peace and Nonviolence will be promoted.

 

The World March will begin in New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, declared the “International Day of Nonviolence” by the United Nations. It will conclude in the Andes Mountains (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010.

The March will last 90 days, three long months of travel. It will pass through all climates and seasons, from the hot summer of the tropics and the deserts, to the winter of Siberia.

The American and Asian stages will be the longest, both almost a month.

A permanent base of a hundred people of different nationalities will complete the journey.

 

In order to introduce the World March for Peace and Nonviolence there will be a representative of the organization who will report about the main moments.

Then there will be a performance held by Spazio-Tempo.

 

During the event there will take place some conferences about the issues of human rights, with a careful view of the Campania territory and the discomfort situations managed daily by ADISS ONLUS operators.

Spazio-Tempo will animate all the month of the exhibition thanks to international artists’ performances, action paintings, meetings with artists who will be available to speak about their works.

International artists’ sculptures will be placed in the public buildings of the city of Caserta to give a concrete signal of the importance of the event.

 

During the exhibition Spazio-Tempo will organize guided tours for groups of visitors and school groups.