| The First Statement of Silakka |
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Unreasonably cheap energy is running out, climate conditions are changing radically, paradoxical economy of constant growth will bankrupt itself, governmental fascism will be declared, racial breeding is practiced to embryos, genetic manipulation will get out of hand, Coup d´état of racistic red necks will happen in the name of revolution, the language loses its meaning, virtual schizophrenia is getting pandemic among the Internet users, obsessed disciples of Tony Robins will get at each other´s throats in the search of lost childhood, fourth world war is waiting at the gates, psychedelic-communistic revolution will fly in the ring like a freshly whiten towel in a heavy weight boxing match while the master is beating the breath out of his competition, heavenly escalator is transporting Jesus down in between the supermarkets while aliens will return to planet earth to complete their work of creation, dystopies and utopies will shake hands, up and down will change the place, emerged birds will withdraw back to the shells. Shit is about to hit the fan, even though a good life needs just bearable conditions and a hand full of material mixed with a drop of good will. We are living strange times - are we? But why?
At the moment we are building a wind powered rescue boat out of waste that our contemporary lifestyle is producing. During the summer 2010 we will sail to Baltic sea and archipelago, far from rectangular conventions and dusty tasting logic of the mainland, to rescue some leftovers of endangered wisdom we are still able to rescue. Maybe we will find some time to think, maybe we will discover something that won´t leave us anything else to think about.
We will invite a group of interesting persons from different sphere of life to join us for a journey. We want to offer them an unique change to think, talk or quiet down. Out of all these experiences we are going to compose an installation including recorded speech, sound scapes and photos. The installation will be presented to public in Turku at 2011.
Our main themes are environment, culture, society, utopies and dystopies. Other themes are post capitalism, braking the anxiety created by future scenarios, communality, piracy, ecology, sustainable life, biology, economics, history, handcraft skills, aesthetics, romanticism, self-sufficiency, poetics, truth, beauty, geography, subconsciousness, cartography, tabus, politics, dromology, happiness, holism, experimentalism, love, individualism, sensuality, ´pataphysics, ethics and mental health.
First of all we want to say: do not fear, do something that you love, everything is possible. It is not necessary to excrete more shit in to the pants. |