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. Purkynì, www.fuud.ujep.cz riesa efau | Motorenhalle, Dresden http://www.motorenhalle.de, www.motorenhalle.de, Trafoacute; 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.
http://www.landofhumanrights.eu/index.html
