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That's OK Nobody's Human
The sad 70's. Waterwars, missionaries, and Greedo. Associative episodes slowly forming a film. Half set in smalltown Ängelholm, Skåne, Sweden; half set in Cochabamba, Bolivia. About how a group of children collected money for a well to be dug outside a school on the other side of the world, and how the rights to the water in that well were later given away to a multinational corporation, on orders from the IMF, which caused riots and shootings. Me, quoted from discussion in the Nonplaces-catalogue: "There’s
a new work in the making now, I’m calling it That’s Ok Nobody’s
Human (this is a quote from someone in the Nixon administration, apparently)
- starting from my former hometown in the 70’s and extending to
Bolivia in the now, I’m including all the things that came out of
the works of the last few years: time, place, memory, storytelling structure,
the organic development and tendrils, the parentheses and the footnotes.
I’m telling stories of my classmates in school, how we collected
money for a well in Cochabamba, of the Pentecostal missionaries who visited
us, how my teachers remember it, and where my misfit classmates |
