Bi+HERITAGE
HyperNormalisation
Proposal created by Juls Gabs
This project discuss the relation between Capitalism and Nature.
Socio-economic reflexion of human control over nature, resulting in a progressive impact of global warming and climate change that cyclically attacks the most vulnerable parts of society.
Proposed Project: Hypernormalisation created by Juls Gabs
The human race jumped out of the terrestrial ecosystem when became sedentary. A non-migrant culture is dangerous for the ecosystem as it accumulates waste. It also exhaust the natural resources mass producing meat, exhausting the cultivated land, accusing deforestation and activating mining. Once our territory is totally used we will exploit others. This territories need Owners, and they will built capitalism. Ultimately producing laws to manage the control of land and industries and its government.
We built a society based on relationships and culture and we call it Identity. But our people and land have a length, so we built Borders.
This sedentary society is not only stoping the spread of seeds and pollination produced by nomads. It also blocks
the spread of passengers, ideas, experiences and exchange of knowledge.
By blocking Migration we have become
an ANTI-NATURAL race.
This borders are the edges of the painting, at first it starts rectangular, like our representations of Nature, always captured in rectangular canvas and windows, but soon, it turns into an invitation to cross them. You are welcome to walk on the painting and the virtual parallel space it produces in the gallery. The installation is meant to become a breach in the white cube, an artificial dimension that appears crossing the walls. The illusion of representation vanishes, and the physicality of plants grows in organic sculptures and refreshing smells.
In the 21st century we are have almost exhaust all natural resources and contaminated our atmosphere with CO2 emissions. Working with the resources around us was our type of living, but the Industrial Revolution 300 years ago, speeded mass production and has put us at an edge. The drastic climate changes are affecting economies, so financial agents are suddenly considering natural resources as economical assets. Ecological capital are the principal stock of ecosystems that provide a flow of goods for public benefits and trades in markets.
For example, a tree is a natural filter that absorbs CO2 from the Atmosphere. The price of the tree is not the wood produced, but the cost of the CO2 released in the climate by not having that tree. Is the implication that cutting the tree will have to the ecosystem and groups of people around.
This proves how it finally has our attention, but human will do what human do best: look for benefits. Every asset will become a number, in a series of formulas and predictions. In the painting, there are small repetitions: bushes are the same, animals hidden in the grass, herbs, flowers and stones, all come from the same pattern.
This new sector of economy is called Natural Capital Accounting, and it is a tool to measure the changes, based on the SEEA* statistics, in the stock of natural capital. It aims to combine a People, Planet and Profit. Natural capital has financial value as it drives many businesses and International matters.
*System of Environmental Economic Accounting
This economical study undoubtably will help us improve in our fight against climate change, but there is also the possibility that could lead us to the privatisation of the natural resources. Like in the access to water in Chile, referred in the installation with the Glass Sculptures containing unaccessible water. This is producing social disparity: big companies can pay for the access to water for their agriculture, but smaller farmers are left aside in poverty and dehydration. This giant bubbles will grow from small to 50cm height and will be positioned on top of the pond and around the gallery space.
This piece reflects in the urge of saving the planet from us, the importance of finding solutions for CO2 emissions and accumulation of waste. But at the same time is alerting on possible threads if nature becomes another coin. Nature grows above and below our cities. Nature is not rigid and structural, is not square, as we like to portrait it and hang on our walls. It expands organically and leaks through every breach we have in form of weeds, taking over the floor space in the gallery and provoking an invitation to coexist together and to walk on the painting feet naked. The painting grows with gravity as one of Faig Ahmed works. Its sculptures of glass and textiles grow bigger trying to become Megaliths, the more far the are from the artificial rectangle, towards physicality and reality.
As in the image the piece concludes with soft textiles created by hand tufting. This pieces are a call to our senses and inside them are herbs and species, fresh mint, thyme and dill that provoke smells of greenery.
