March of the Human Rights Jukebox: On Saturday sixteenth June I went to South London to {photograph} this occasion and put many footage and a reasonably lengthy textual content on-line on My London Diary.
Right here I’ll share the textual content (with some corrections and hyperlinks added) and just some of the images – you possibly can see many extra of those on My London Diary. You’ll be able to learn in regards to the Human Rights Juke Field on the South London Gallery web site, and on Isa Suarez’s website online.
So that is what I wrote in 2007:
I joined the ‘Human Rights Jukebox’ in its progress from the Camberwell Magistrates Court docket to Peckham on Saturday sixteenth June. An occasion within the Camberwell Arts Week, the ‘March Of The Human Rights Jukebox’ was organised by Isa Suarez, who had a one-year artists residency in Southwark in 2006.
The juke field included ideas on folks’s rights from many residents and various teams in Southwark, a few of whom marched with banners together with it.
At first of the occasion, the Dulwich Choral Society carried out a specifically composed piece by Suarez, utilizing phrases from the ‘jukebox’. On Clerkenwell Inexperienced we stopped for a impassioned recital (in French) by a Black African poet, and in entrance of the outdated baths in Artichoke Place (now the Leisure Centre) there was a protracted efficiency by Deadbeat Worldwide in addition to a brief tune by three musicians that left us wanting extra.
Deadbeat Worldwide additionally carried out at varied different factors on route, together with one other energetic set at Peckham Library. The march was led into Peckham by a rapper, with some forthright views on human rights.
Accompanying the jukebox have been the dwell artwork group ‘mmmmm‘, Adrian Fisher & Luna Montengro, coated from head to foot in sheets of paper containing the entire textual content of the UN Common Declaration Of Human Rights, in each English and Spanish in addition to the pages of a world atlas.
In entrance of the library at Peckham, mmmmm accomplished the occasion by unpinning the sheets from one another one after the other, studying the clauses and feeding the sheets right into a shredder (and when this gave up, tearing them up.)
Every then poured chilly water over the opposite and threw the shredded papers, in order that they caught to the moist garments and pores and skin. Lastly we have been all invited (in what we have been knowledgeable was an Argentine customized) to leap as soon as into the air for every of the 30 clauses of the declaration.
On the best way to the occasion, I’d jumped off the bus on the Oval, the place ‘Cease The Conflict’ and different demonstrators have been protesting. Gordon Brown was apparently anticipated to reach at 12.00 to observe some form of recreation there. It was a really completely different form of motion to the ‘jukebox’ although each have been political and artwork of their alternative ways, though just one will get Arts Council funding.
Additionally dropping in at Peckham Library have been a gaggle of younger cyclists from the go-kart observe in close by Burgess Park. They have been a vigorous crew and everybody appeared to wish to be photographed.
Extra footage:
Cease The Conflict Demo
March of the Human Rights Jukebox
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