Antarctic Village

http://www.studio-orta.com/news.php

The creation of the ‘Antarctic Village’, the film and the expedition logbook to be published on their return, are a bid by the artists to amend Article 13 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights to include a human beings inherent right to freedom of movement – Article 13.3. ‘Antarctic Village’ symbolizes a place that welcomes all and reflects on the millions of people exiled from their native lands by ecological disasters, economic ruin, war and political intimidation. Professor Lucy Orta, speaking from the University of the Arts: “We wanted to communicate the fact that Antarctica is first and foremost the most important World natural reserve and that the Antarctic Treaty signed in 1959 established freedom of scientific investigation, environmental protection, and also banned all military activity on this sixth continent. This was the first Arms Control agreement established during the Cold War. Antarctica is our new Utopia, the ideal metaphor for our idea that people should have a right to move freely and circulate beyond state borders to a new lands, in peace and towards a new Hope. 'Antarctic Village' encapsualtes the conceptual motto of the 1st End of the World Biennale as an art without frontiers joining the North and South Poles: “Pondering, at the end of the world that another world is possible”."

Goin' to Shantytown

Check this stuff out! Lee Running passed this info onto me for the
Moving Crew so I'm posting it here. Really interesting stuff. Lines up
with the Istanbul proposal as well. I'm sure Cesco knows of other
stuff like this too.

http://www.elementalchile.cl/
chilean architecture firm doing public housing - interesting website
with models (look for iquique under housing - that's a project of
their's that's been running and successful).

http://takebacktheland.blogspot.com/
blogspot for miami shantytown

http://www.three-walls.org/past_residencies.php?id=46
shanty-bazaar-batering

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