WHAT IS THE WORLDWIDE PEACE MARKER PROJECT?

The project:

The Worldwide Peace Marker Project (or WPMP) is a work of art that falls within the classification of "installation art." WPMP reaches beyond art's conventional boundaries by becoming a global collaborative represented by 198 artists from as many nations in the world. Because of its global scope, WPMP manages to integrate human diversity into a new dialog about art and life as a global experience.

Overview:

There is every indication to suggest that our world has reached a point of crisis that requires a fresh and increasing social capacity for creative imagination and reason. In this way, we can better respond to the challenges posed by the effects of a social system that has essentially broken down and a world environment that is collapsing under the demands of an unsustainable civilization.

It is also evident that people from all of the world’s cultures are becoming a global society that is deeply intertwined in its dealings and wholly interconnected for our survival. Therefore, common sense indicates that it is imperative that we, humanity, in order to deal with this common crisis, move towards establishing a new level of presence for ourselves as a species and embrace, in addition to our role as local citizens, a new role as global citizens. As global citizens we can act on behalf of the whole Earth as our local home in the solar system.

Global citizenship has yet to be defined. Examples of what it may be are needed. WPMP provides one such example.

WPMP is a global act of peace that can demonstrate that:

1.       Human global citizenship may be a new level of consciousness for a species whose survival depends on our ability to work collaboratively at a planetary scale.

2.       The diversity of culture and identity of each of the nations involved in the project can be preserved and be presented to illustrate that global citizenship extends our local identities into a planetary identity as a species unified on behalf of our world in the solar system.

3.       Global citizenship is a logical next step in the development of the human species on our way to become responsible custodians of life in our world.

4.       Global citizenship may be the level of development where the human species can finally institute peace and allow war to be focused on the task of rebuilding the world.

The fact that we decided to create WPMP as an act of global citizenship with world peace as the central theme is an indication of the spirit behind this work of art. It clearly suggests that if we are going to work together globally, we might as well begin in peace.

Tiité Cape Coral, 2008

Note: There is a companion book to this project here and there is a booklet guide to the project here

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