The second year BA students at Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art started out their spring semester with a study trip to Finnmark with lectures and seminars focusing on sami culture and traditional knowledge systems. After the trip, the students have been working with individual works questioning ideas and topics related to the trip, such as, growing up in the northern parts in the world, what does "natural" mean and what is not present in nature.
The students have presented their work at the sami culture house, Árdna at the University Campus in Tromsö the 11th of March. On the 10th of April the students will go back to Kautokeino to exhibit at Diehtosiida.
Making sense
The influence of capitalism to our
society and the Planet is hard to ignore. Capitalism is behaving like a virus,
affecting everything on Earth.
Economic system became a foundation for human
existence. Countries without healthy industry are being left in agony and
despair. People are blindly following the movement of capital, in the
heliocentric system of Capitalism.
Consequences of destructive capitalistic systems
are noticeable, climate change, extinction of species, overuse of commons and
many more. Rights to use commons come with the power. Power comes with money,
and money comes with capitalism. Private
companies and corporations in agreement with state and authorities are often
the ones that are using Commons. The rights of individuals are not considered
when economic interest comes in question.
If we think of Capitalism as a movement of
commodities and accumulation of capital or a system of objectives laws, rule of
law opposed to rule of man, then I can think of capitalism as a force in our
society that is leading the society in one way direction. According to
journalist Amitai Etzioni this direction is ruled by law of capitalism, law of
accumulation, consumerism (a social disease). The requiem is conducted by
Capitalism. We have to adapt to capitalism´s odd nature. Follow technological
developments, consumption trends, adapting to changing moral and social
hierarchies in our society.
On the other hand, minerals from earth are used in
construction, technology, energy, food and drinks, newspapers, transportation
etc. Basically elements from nature are in every segment of human life and it´s
not possible to live without it. But the problem is that use of nature has a
color, and it is the color of money and capitalism.
Can we escape capitalistic magnet force, and stop
the industrial machinery? The right question is do we want this; we need a big
debate on this topic. Debate where all knowledges and all sides of the table
would be consider equal in the discussion.
Marsil Andjelov Al-Mahamid
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