Organizers: <\/b>Organization Mutual Coexistence (Vz\u00e1jemn\u00e9 sou\u017eit\u00ed) in cooperation with The National Technical Museum and initiator of the project Tamara Moyzes<\/p>\n
Dates:<\/b> 22.04. \u2013 10.05. 2009, opening 21.04. at 6pm \u2028Mo-Fri 9:00-17:00, Sat-Sun 10:00-17:00, Free entry<\/p>\n
Location:<\/b> Nostick\u00fd Palace (Ministry of Culture, Czech Republic) Information and Cultural Centre of the NTM, Malt\u00e9zsk\u00e9 Square 1, Prague<\/p>\n
Artists: <\/b>Darina Alster (CZ), Radovan \u010cerevka (SK), Pavl\u00edna Fichta \u010cierna (SK), Milena Dopitov\u00e1 (CZ), Kate\u0159ina Fojt\u00edkov\u00e1 (CZ), La\u010fa Ga\u017eiov\u00e1 (SK), Ane\u017eka Ho\u0161kov\u00e1 (CZ), Shlomi Yaffe (IL), Gabriela Jurkovi\u010dov\u00e1 (CZ), Lenka Klodov\u00e1 (CZ), Jana Koch\u00e1nkov\u00e1 (CZ), Tom\u00e1\u0161 Makara (SK), Tamara Moyzes (SK), Tanja Ostoji\u0107 (SER\/DE), Pavla Scerankov\u00e1 (SK), Michal \u0160iml (CZ), Jana \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nov\u00e1 (CZ), TOY_BOX (CZ), Silvie Vond\u0159ejcov\u00e1 (CZ), Richard Wiesner (CZ), Du\u0161an Zahoransk\u00fd (SK), Kate\u0159ina Z\u00e1vodov\u00e1 (CZ)<\/p>\n
Curators:<\/strong> Lenka Kukurov\u00e1, Zuzana \u0160tefkov\u00e1<\/p>\n PR<\/strong>:\u00a0Lucia Jamrichov\u00e1<\/p>\n Project Family Happiness comments on the problematic practice of withdrawal of children from socially handicapped (predominantly Roma) families and their placing in state child care institutions. This practice is widespread in the Czech Republic in spite of overwhelming evidence that this procedure leads to total collapse within the family, the disruption of emotional ties of the children, and severe problems in their personal socialization throughout their lives. The number of children growing up in the anonymous and pathological environment of institutional child care in the Czech Republic is alarming (60 out of each 10 000 children under the age of 3). Currently more than a half of the number of children placed in state institutions are positioned there on the premises of problematic economical situation within their families and another third because of their health problems. A large number of children placed in child care institutions is of Roma origin. Mostly they are not orphans or victims of violence or abuse but children from poor families. These children become \u201chostages\u201d of the state power.<\/p>\n Family Happiness is a campaign organized by the NGO Life Together as a part of their ongoing project \u201cPrevention of Forced Removal of Roma Children From Their Families to the Institutional Care Through Support of Families and Dialogue with State Institutions\u201d The project was supported by European Committee \u2013 the program Daphne II. Life Together association has been involved in the project of prevention of the removal of children from socially weak families and their placement into institutional care. Apart from the fieldwork, the NGO concentrates on spreading information on the problem and offers free legal aid to their clients. The campaign aims at dissemination of information on the topic. It is addressed to expert as well as laymen public and seeks to provoke a wide debate.<\/p>\n We believe that contemporary art has the potential to show the abovementioned problems from an unexpected angle and thus to stimulate a critical reflection of the issue, challenge racial stereotypes prevailing within the Czech population, and ultimately provoke a change within the approach of the general public as well as our state representatives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Organizers: Organization Mutual Coexistence (Vz\u00e1jemn\u00e9 sou\u017eit\u00ed) in cooperation with The National Technical Museum and initiator of the project Tamara Moyzes Dates: 22.04. \u2013 10.05. 2009, opening 21.04. at 6pm \u2028Mo-Fri 9:00-17:00, Sat-Sun 10:00-17:00, Free entry Location: Nostick\u00fd Palace (Ministry of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tamaramoyzes.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}