I have been busily working the past month or two on an 11-site installation over three campuses of Harvard University. 60.30.1 commemorates the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The 30 articles of the Declaration will be projected onto buildings in Harvard Yard, Harvard Law School, and Harvard's Kennedy School from 5-10pm on December 8-10. On the side of Widener Library there will be a short animation co-directed and animated by Norah Solorzano that depicts the entire document.
We've used a stenciled spray paint look to simulate graffiti on the buildings - representing how it has become subversive to talk about basic rights which should be guaranteed to everyone.
I am the project's artistic director, and it is produced by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the Film Study Center (of which I am Interim Assistant Director). Special thanks to Steven Brzozowski from the Carr Center, Lauren Herman from UCHRS, and Greg Morrow from Media Services for all their hard work.
Please come to the official launch of the installation at 5pm on Monday, December 8 outside Widener Library (Harvard Yard, Cambridge). Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha (Director, UCHRS) will kick off a week of events and activities around the Declaration's 60th Anniversary. Refreshments will be served.
Click here for more information about Harvard's activities around the anniversary.