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The interior of one of the shipping containers is Bedroom, by Coco de Mer founder Sam Roddick and Trevor Robinson of Quiet Storm Films.
An intense traveling art exhibit that aims to enlighten people about the horrors of sex trafficking has arrived in New York. Called "Journey," the installation consists of seven shipping containers with work by international artists intended to evoke the experience of being a sex trafficking victim. It opened yesterday on Washington Place, and will remain open through Sunday. This video shows the interior of one of the containers, in which Coco de Mer founder Sam Roddick recreates a room in a brothel:
The traveling exhibit is sponsored by the Helen Bamber Foundation, a UK-based human rights organization. This morning Actor Emma Thompson, who is chairwoman of the foundation, joined Mayor Bloomberg at a press conference to unveil the show. She told reporters she became involved in stopping human trafficking when she was introduced to a woman who had essentially been a slave at a massage parlor she passed daily. "I was mentally, completely excoriated by it," Thompson said.
At the press conference, Bloomberg announced a $2 million multilingual public advertising campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking. Starting in March, ads designed by NYU students will appear on buses, bus shelters and other media. The campaign's slogan is "It’s happening here," and will use languages specific toe foreign tongues of specific neighborhoods, including Arabic, Chinese, Haitian creole, Korean, Russian and Spanish. (The ad campaign will be funded by the private sector, and admission to the exhibit is free.)
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why not spend the 2 million dollars for the vice department to bust all these places, one after another, over and over again? it is not as if most of these places, while under the radar, are not known among those who patronize them. while they are at it, the vice can crack down on the gambling parlors and poker dens too, once again not as if they didn't know about them.
Cracking down on gambling and poker, you want next?
After that, what? Adulterers must wear a scarlet letter?
Instead of outlawing the world's oldest profession, which will never be quelled, why not legalize it, tax it, have health and safety inspections for the brothels which will no longer be hidden, and take the profit motive out of it?
Sex trafficking is NOT the same as prostitution.
Women who are trafficked for sex are often kidnapped or tricked into joining a brothel. They are raped and beaten constantly and dehumanized. They are not paid. They are slaves.
Legalizing prostitution in which both parties are willing participants is a completely different issue than the one being discussed in this exhibit.
True. Sex trafficking is horrendous.
What got to me though was #1's comment that the next vice to eradicate should be poker and gambling. With such allies, one doesn't need enemies.
I agree. NYPD is a huge part of the problem. In their minds, prostitution is still a victimless crime. This $2million is a huge waste of resources and will not even begin to solve the issue of sex slavery. Cops know where this is occuring. They just don't do a damn thing about it.
Another failure by Mike Bloomberg to get to the heart of the matter. One phone call to Ray Kelly is a cheaper and more effective solution.
It's nice but Mr. Chernikov's girls want their containers back.
How big is a container?
specific toe?
True, they could spend the money directly tackling the problem but that doesn't give pampered actors a chance to get in front of a camera and feel important.
Containers are boring unless Sobotka and The Greek are involved.
Cliche
i walked by it a few times -- it is very commercialized and too expensively crafted to look "urban". Not knocking the issue but the exhibit borders on tacky.
It looks like the set for a Pat Benatar video.
how is this going to enlighten people about the horrors of sex trafficking... judging by "Bedroom" it looks like a wanna-be installation project at the Deitch. it's projecting a gritty-cool-urban aesthetic, not 'horror'
if they want to 'enlighten' people, why not hold free screenings of "Lilya 4-Ever" - that's the most horrific movie i've ever seen, and it's about a victim of sex trafficking.
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