Antarctica World Passport Delivery Bureau - Nansen Initiative Global Consultation, Geneva

• Main Authors: Orta, Lucy, Orta, Jorge
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Collectivism; Environmentalism; International Relations; International Social Policy; Fine Art; Sculpture; Antarctic; Norway; Antarc*; Antarctica; Alaska
• Online Access: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9517/; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9517/1/gorm-9593.jpg; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9517/2/gorm-9711.jpg; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9517/3/gorm-9590.jpg; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9517/4/gorm-9589.jpg; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9517/5/gorm-9578.jpg; https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9517/6/IMG_9908.jpg

On October 12, 2015 representatives of some 100 States from around the world, as well as international organizations, NGOs and academics, came together as part of the Nansen Initiative Global Consultation, to endorse a document called the Protection Agenda, which addresses the needs of people displaced across international borders in the context of disasters, including the effects of climate change. To accompany the process, the University of the Arts London curated the exhibition Displacement, seeking to provide a dynamic public interface and heighten awareness of the key issues and challenges facing the urgent need to recognize the plight of displaced people across the world due to slow and sudden-onset disasters, many of which are exacerbated by climate change. For the occasion, Lucy Orta's Antarctica World Passport Delivery Bureau and Antarctic Village were installed in the Sicli Pavillon, Geneva as an integrated cultural component of the consultative process, foregrounding art practice and research as a methodology to add critical value to the Nansen Initiative process. The exhibition was hosted by the Swiss Ambassador and the State Secretary of Norway. Antarctica World Passports were delivered to the 350 delegates present, who signed up to become members of the Antarctica World Passport community. There are currently three passport editions totalling 55,000 examples, and the website has over fifteen thousand citizens from across the globe including some from the hardest hit catastrophe zones: The Philippines, Alaska, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan.