Participatory Video Project / A question on artistic freedom
This project included a short film and an interactive documentary. I wrote and produced this project in 2018 during my service as Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist at UNESCO. The project aimed to mobilize the international debate on freedom of artistic expression through a participative question and answer process confronting policy makers, artists and cultural actors from different countries and backgrounds.
The film_ What is artistic freedom to you.
UNESCO understands artistic freedom as a complex area of issues to promote the right of artists and cultural professionals to create, produce and distribute diverse cultural expressions and the right of citizens to have access to these works.
They include: the right to create and have artistic work supported / distributed / remunerated; freedom of movement (mobility of artists and cultural professionals); freedom of association (for artists to organize in professional associations); protection of the social and economic rights of artists (status of the artist issues); the right to participate in cultural life.
The 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Divers of Cultural expressions puts forth that “cultural diversity can be protected and promoted only if human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, information and communication, as well as the ability of individuals to choose cultural expressions, are guaranteed”.
The interactive documentary_ A question on artistic freedom
In conjunction with the documentary film “What is artistic freedom to you”, I designed and developed also an interactive web documentary where users can choose one of the questions proposed by the participants and filter among a wide range of interviewees from worldwide who will propose their own opinions and stories in a dynamically generated movie.
The application was designed as an extendable content platform for user-generated inputs. The platform is entirely powered by open sources technologies based on the CMS Drupal and on jQuery libraries.
The video server is provided by Vimeo.
This project is being re-developed with additional funding.
A beta version of the platform is available at:
http://emanuelecidonelli.com/projects/artisticfreedom/
More than 70 artists and cultura activists from 16 countries have participated to this project.
Abdoul Aziz Dieng
Ajie Wartono
Ali Dorani aka Eaten Fish
Amadou Fall Ba
Amelia Hapsari
Ardi Gunawan
Ari Wulu
Babacar Diouf
Bente Roalsvig
Cato Litangen
Christine Hamnen
Daniel Gomes
Didier Awadi
Esi Atiase
Fatemeh Ekhtesari
Fatou Kandé Senghor
Fauzan Dwi Raharjo
Handiwirman Saputra
Helge Lunde
Hilmar Farid
Ignatia Nilu
Imam Wayudi
Indra Ameng
Irawan Karseno
Jan Lothe Eriksen
Kassou Seydou
Katya García-Antón
Klara Este
Kristin Danielsen
Mai Khoi
Mamadou Wane aka Papi
Manal Al-Sheikh
Mansur Rajih
Mari Brit Boine
Mariane Hovdan
Martinus Miroto
Mauro Petroni
Mehdi Mousavi
Mella Jaarsma
Mohammad Habeeb
Moona Yanni
Mulyana Mogus
NAIF rock band
Natasha Tontey
Ngoné Ndour
NTRL rock band
Otba Fatallah Mohamoud
Oumar Ball
Ousmane Faye
Pål Moddi Knutsen aka Moddi
Papa Samba Ndiaye
Piryono E. Sutrasno
(and the students of
Erudio Arts School)
Regina Sambou
Ricky Pesik
Rolf Einar
Ruangrupa Artists collective
Rubah di Selatan
Sall Oumar
Setu Legi
Sina Winter
Soly Cissé
Sony Irawan
Susanne Hætta
Theresia Augustina Sitompul
Thiam Ousseinou
Tromarama Artists collective
Valérie Oka
William Nygaard
