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NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 ARTISTS CENTRE DES CONGRÈS ET DU PATRIMOINE LAMOT YAEL BARTANA (ISRAEL, 1970) STELIOS FAITAKIS (GREECE, 1976) KENDELL GEERS (SOUTH AFRICA, 1968) WAFA HOURANI (PALESTINE, 1979) ALFREDO JAAR (CHILE, 1956) KHALED JARRAR (PALESTINE, 1976) THOMAS KILPPER (GERMANY, 1956) BASIM MAGDY (EGYPT, 1977) GIANNI MOTTI (ITALY, 1958) SEAMUS NOLAN (IRELAND, 1978) FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ CASTILLO (SPAIN, 1970) 16
NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights Contemporary Arts Exhibition in Mechelen and Brussels 01.09. – 10.12.2012 3. Exhibition Chapters, Venues and Artists CHAPTER ONE: CULTUURCENTRUM The first chapter of NEWTOPIA: The State of Human Rights, here at the Cultuurcentrum explores so-called ‘first-generation human rights’, which revolve around issues of freedom, personal liberties and participation in political life. Fundamentally civil and political at root, these aim to protect the individual from the abuses and excesses of the state and to ensure participation in democratic processes. Civil rights ensure physical and moral integrity and allow individuals their own sphere of conscience and belief such as the right to freedom of opinion and religion, as well as the right not to be killed, tortured or abused. Civil rights also include certain legal rights such as protection against arbitrary arrest and detention, the right to be presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law and the right to appeal. Political rights are necessary in order to participate in the life of society and community and include the right to vote, to join political parties, freedom of expression and assembly and access to information. The work in this chapter thus addresses issues such as government, freedom of speech, capital punishment, the right to a fair trial and voting rights. It also addresses questions of absolute power, particularly in authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, but also the legacy of the abuse of this power as in the issue of the recurring ghosts of colonialism, the aftermath of genocide, and the question of war, militarism and the weapons trade. This chapter also contains certain historical reference points to the human rights struggle, including: the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements, the Vietnam War, the Tiananmen Square protests and artistic as well as popular resistance to human rights violations during dictatorships in Latin America (Chile, Argentina) and Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s. 9 International Media Relations: Goldmann Public Relations Daniela Goldmann Anna Bernhardt Zimmerstraße 11 10969 Berlin Deutschland T: +49 (0) 30 259 357 0 F: +49 (0) 30 259 357 29 servicebln@goldmannpr.de Press contact Belgium / The Netherlands Gerrie Soetart Populierstraat 9 Rue du Peuplier 1000 Brussels T: +32 (0) 475 47 98 69 F: +32 (0) 2 219 30 27 gerrie.soetaert@skynet.be
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