Kapitalks at One World: Human rights down to the skin

Sander van Bussel will visit the “One World” festival as part of the event “Kapitalks at One World: Human rights down to the skin”, which will also be streamed online. “Human Rights Tattoo” will be tattooed – letters from the “Declaration of Human Rights”.

Guests:

• Sander van Bussel
• Zuzana Števulová, director of the Legal aid center

In the February issue of Kapitál, reporter Sára Činčurová conducted an interview with Dutch artist Sander van Bussel, who is tattooing the text of the Declaration of Human Rights on the skin of 70 people at this year’s One World. Sander is dedicated to community art, bringing people together, social interaction and experimental art. He is also the initiator of the Human Rights Tattoo project, which was created in 2012. His goal is to tattoo the entire text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through 6,773 individual letters to different people around the world. They do not choose their letter, the tattoo is done in the order of the words and letters of the declaration.

Sander decided to undertake this project after his friend, reporter Steven Naysh, was murdered in Kenya in 2004. Since then, tattooing events for human rights have been organized around the world in cooperation with museums, universities, organizations, festivals, and tattoo parlors. Thousands of people have already had the letter tattooed. It is not the work of one artist, but of a whole community of people, so far from 76 countries.

In a discussion with Zuzana Števulová, director of the League for Human Rights, Sander will talk about his project and about connecting art with the issue of human rights.

Hosted by Michal Lipták.