THE GREEN DRAWINGS: Notes on the Indulgence Trade
(w. Conny Blom )
- Sound piece accompanying the lecture performance with possibility of doing penance, held in Beddingestrand in Sweden on July 14, 2019
The work examines the effects of industrial exploitation of natural resources and the neoliberal belief in the market to self regulate and thereby save the world. During the exhibition and on the day of the performance, visitors could buy themselves a guilt-free conscience, and it even came with an artwork. Using the free market logic we were actually cleaning air - while making art commerce. The complete value of every sale went to planting trees in Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania. At then current prices, every sold drawing enabled us to pay for the planting of 15 trees.
