THE 5 PILLARS OF THE PROJECT
- Alert all the citizens about environmental and social urgencies
- Invite to introspection and moving from excuses into actions
- Focus on what’s urgent and important
- Occupying public spaces : real, digital and conversational
- Allowing people to share their excuses and actions
Changing our paradigms: going from #theworstexcuse to #thebestaction
participants
THE PROJECT IN DETAIL
The #theworstexcuse project’s goal is to occupy and conquer both digital and real public spaces by challenging passers-by and visitors, by putting up photos of emblematic figures imagining the worst excuse they could give to their children if they hadn’t committed themselves .
These people pose with a #theworstexcuse placard in their hands and their photo will be sticked on the location where it was taken, as Josef Helie practices his art (see his collection) and shared on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) with #thebestaction it corresponds to, i.e. the main priority action to take to avoid using this excuse.
We will also propose people to share on both Sorry Children website and social networks which are for them #theworstexcuse and #thebestaction.
Sorry Children is an associative project aimed at encourgaing people to change their behaviour and making them consider what excuses they’d tell their children to justify their inaction.
For his part, Josef Helie has spent a year travelling the world to put up his recontextualised photos on city walls. Paris, New York, Montréal, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Toulouse…
TIMELINE
Shooting periods:
- Paris : september
- Bordeaux : september
- Montréal/New York: 13 march / 31 march 2020
- Elsewhere : contact us
Projects
SHootings of festivals (World Impact Summit, Cabaret Vert, Produrable, Sustainable Brands)
Petition to French PM Edouard Philippe
Books with all the worst excuses (2020)
Street play: children court
How you can help us?
- ask known people to join the project
- contact journalists who can relay the campaign
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The initiators
Sorry Children generates excuses for parents to give to their children if they would have done nothing (or very little) to ensure their children are left with a viable planet. Above all, it is an ironic website that explains current and future issues and proposes hundreds of actions to take, from gathering information independently to civil disobedience.
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Article L’info durable
Josef Helie is a French photographer and artist. He discretely distills his enchantments, generously sprinkles a free dose of poetry in a citie’s daily journey.
The stealthy pleasures he reproduces, far from superficial touch screens and dedicated white cubes, invite a random audience to look at the world, as the most beautiful photos still that need to be taken and shared.
He makes us realize that it’s with art that life becomes more interesting than art.