{"id":689,"date":"2024-06-06T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/?page_id=689"},"modified":"2024-08-13T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:31:56","slug":"innocent-passage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/innocent-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocent Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On the bright and sunny morning of Saturday April 20th 2024, N\u00faria G\u00fcell and I, accompanied by a group of 55 other excursionists, boarded La Golondrina \u2013 a traditional passenger vessel \u2013 from the Escales Reials in the Port of Tarragona. Together, we embarked on a ‘cruise’ of the port and its anchorage area. We toured ships operating under flags of convenience \u2013 considering these ships as \u2018floating territories\u2019 of the countries whose flag they flew. We approached territories of Malta, Panama, Liberia, Bahamas, Marshall Islands and Togo. Our \u2018cruise\u2019 was led by a professional tour guide, focusing on how territorial notions such as \u2018the rule of law\u2019, citizenship, homeland, human rights, become elusive at sea \u2013 opening an obscure arena whose blurred regulator frameworks foster turbo-capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innocent Passage<\/em> is part of a wider artistic research that N\u00faria and I jointly initiated in the spring of 2023. Broadly speaking, and recognising that around 90% of global trade in goods and raw materials is currently carried out by sea, we have begun to investigate how the conceptual and legal frameworks that are asserted and defended within Western democratic countries \u2013 in relation to the labour, environmental, eco-social, citizenship and fiscal issues that are imposed on land \u2013 are sometimes transformed, diminished or ignored in oceanic territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Innocent passage\u2019 is a concept within maritime law, that grants a vessel the right to pass through the territorial waters of another state. The \u2018right of innocent passage\u2019 is a foundational principle for international trade, commerce, and communication \u2013 allowing carriers to efficiently transport goods and resources across oceans. Within international relations, by respecting the \u2018right of innocent passage\u2019, a state demonstrates their commitment to international cooperation and peaceful coexistence. This right implies that a coastal state’s criminal jurisdiction should not be exercised on board foreign vessels passing through its territorial waters, unless: it is prejudicial to the security of the coastal state; the consul of the country whose flag the ship flies requests the help of local authorities; or it is necessary for the suppression of illicit narcotics trafficking (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea – UNCLOS, 1982).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International law requires all vessels to be registered in a host country, determining the flag and laws under which the ship will operate. Each state should then effectively exercise its jurisdiction and control \u2013 in administrative, technical and social matters \u2013 over ships flying its flag. Although the UNCLOS asserts that there must be a genuine link between the owner of a vessel and its flag, this can be difficult to enforce. Many countries \u2013 such as Panama, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Bahamas, Belize \u2013 offer \u2018open registries\u2019, commonly known as \u2018flags of convenience\u2019. These registries afford considerable advantages to ship owners; such as easier and cheaper registration processes, reduced safety and environmental regulations, the ability to employ cheaper foreign labour, and tax exemptions. These ships provide tax and regulation havens where, in some cases, 21st century neocolonialism and slavery practices can be exercised in plain sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A site-specific intervention in social space co-created with<\/em> N\u00faria G\u00fcell<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A project commissioned by<\/em> M\u00e8dol Centre d’Arts Contempor\u00e0nies de Tarragona<\/a><\/em>. Photos by Mila Ercoli<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the bright and sunny morning of Saturday April 20th 2024, N\u00faria G\u00fcell and I, accompanied by a group of 55 other excursionists, boarded La Golondrina \u2013 a traditional passenger vessel \u2013 from the Escales Reials in the Port of Tarragona. Together, we embarked on a ‘cruise’ of the port and its anchorage area. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/689\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosacasado.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}