Artwork
Antarctica World Passport, Mobile Delivery Bureau
Lucy + Jorge Orta, 2008
- Ref: 5070
- Materials: Bureau construction, 10 chairs, Red Cross crates, various objects, passport stamps, ink pads, Antarctica World Passports (Passport limited edition 10,000)
- Dimensions: Variable
- Exhibition history: 2008 Hangar Bicocca Milan; Galleria Continua Le Moulin
- Courtesy: Galleria Continua San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin and the Artists
- Concept: The Antarctic Treaty signed in 1959 by Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, South Africa, and the USSR, states that the sixth continent Antarctica is a common territory, open to all peaceful peoples and to cultural and scientific cooperation. The first edition of the Antarctica World Passport created by the artists Lucy + Jorge Orta is a symbolic proposal for a new nation of humanity, and the foundation for the Antarctic Village. The Antarctica World Passport may be issued to every person wishing to become a citizen of this continent allowing them to travel freely throughout the world. On deliverance it will request in return that each citizen take responsibility for their actions. The new world citizen will dedicate him or herself to combat all acts of barbarity, to fight against intimidation and poverty, to support social progress, to protect the environment and endangered species, to safeguard human dignity and to defend the inalienable rights to liberty, justice and peace in the world. The Antarctica World Passport recognises the inherent dignity of every member of the human race and their equal and inalienable rights shall constitute the basis of liberty, justice and peace in the world. The Antarctica World Passport supports a new amendment to Article 13 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Art. 13 :3 “Every human being has the right to move freely and cross frontiers to their chosen territory. Individuals should not be deemed of an inferior status to that of capital, trade, telecommunication and pollution, all of which have no boundaries."
