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Cave at the end of the world
Category: RE-act
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Title:
Cave at the end of the world
Cave at the end of the world
Author:
Christoph Both-Asmus
Christoph Both-Asmus
Category:
RE-act
RE-act
Description:
We choose to live in a cave in the Anaga Biosphere Reserve on Tenerife, Canary Islands. I walked from our cave to the next mountain ridge, here I had a fantastic view onto the valley, the fogs rising, the clouds moving, the river flowing and the sea. The project is what I call a “Life is Art-Project”, in the spirit of Joseph Beuys’ “Social Sculpture”: A home chiselled into the rock, a 100 years ago, became a wildly overgrown roof for artist, other professionals and the public, where theory and concepts are tested in a “Real Time Experiment” and from where further action can be taken. The Project is inspired by Thoreau’s “Walden”, by the wish to learn to live close to and with nature and to reduce consumption. However, during the 1st Project stage (winter 2017/18), as we are used to “comfort” coming from a live in civilisation, we started using electricity, running water, sleeping bags with polyester shells and products from the supermarket a.o. plastics. Hence many questions arise, e.G.: Our lifes got better, living here but how can we improve to make it a win-win situation on nature’s (the sea) side as well? How can our “Real Time Experiment” be applied to solutions for our “Anthropocene Crisis”? How is e.G. the oil platform of shore effecting us, here right now? During the 1st project-stage, many professionals and people from different backgrounds, international and from the Canaries (Artists, Botanists, Activists, CraftsWoman, Designer, Urban Gardeners, Architects, Sozial Scientists, teacher, dropouts, homeless a.o.), have exchanged about this question, visited and helped to build the project. The 2nd stage (2018 - ongoing) will be, continuing to learn how to live and actively understand ways to improve, in favour of future generation of any life form. It is thought for stage 3 (winter 2018/19), to have an online presence as documentation and for exchange. This documentation and pieces of art and writing will draw a contemporary parallel to Thoreau’s “Walden” and remind of Beuys’ ideals. During Stage 4 (2018/19 - ongoing), we plan a.o. a summer school and that we and our guests can live of our garden. We will build a network following the original idea of “Woofing”. Already now we are connected with related projects: “Bandjoun Station” - Cameroon, “Forest of the Giants” - Gabon, “Operation Canopy” - France and many more. Our conclusion so far: it will be difficult to go back to caveWoman’s lives, there will be no going back for civilisation and changes take time, even if urgent. However if actively trying, positive improvements happen and perspectives appear (We are certainly able to live more sustainable in our cave-project than in Berlin). It is necessary to try out and to experiment, because only practise can prove our concepts, that we think of, when hoping to rescue the sea, the planet and humanity. And ultimately it is necessary for everyone to make changes: to reduce consumption.
We choose to live in a cave in the Anaga Biosphere Reserve on Tenerife, Canary Islands. I walked from our cave to the next mountain ridge, here I had a fantastic view onto the valley, the fogs rising, the clouds moving, the river flowing and the sea. The project is what I call a “Life is Art-Project”, in the spirit of Joseph Beuys’ “Social Sculpture”: A home chiselled into the rock, a 100 years ago, became a wildly overgrown roof for artist, other professionals and the public, where theory and concepts are tested in a “Real Time Experiment” and from where further action can be taken. The Project is inspired by Thoreau’s “Walden”, by the wish to learn to live close to and with nature and to reduce consumption. However, during the 1st Project stage (winter 2017/18), as we are used to “comfort” coming from a live in civilisation, we started using electricity, running water, sleeping bags with polyester shells and products from the supermarket a.o. plastics. Hence many questions arise, e.G.: Our lifes got better, living here but how can we improve to make it a win-win situation on nature’s (the sea) side as well? How can our “Real Time Experiment” be applied to solutions for our “Anthropocene Crisis”? How is e.G. the oil platform of shore effecting us, here right now? During the 1st project-stage, many professionals and people from different backgrounds, international and from the Canaries (Artists, Botanists, Activists, CraftsWoman, Designer, Urban Gardeners, Architects, Sozial Scientists, teacher, dropouts, homeless a.o.), have exchanged about this question, visited and helped to build the project. The 2nd stage (2018 - ongoing) will be, continuing to learn how to live and actively understand ways to improve, in favour of future generation of any life form. It is thought for stage 3 (winter 2018/19), to have an online presence as documentation and for exchange. This documentation and pieces of art and writing will draw a contemporary parallel to Thoreau’s “Walden” and remind of Beuys’ ideals. During Stage 4 (2018/19 - ongoing), we plan a.o. a summer school and that we and our guests can live of our garden. We will build a network following the original idea of “Woofing”. Already now we are connected with related projects: “Bandjoun Station” - Cameroon, “Forest of the Giants” - Gabon, “Operation Canopy” - France and many more. Our conclusion so far: it will be difficult to go back to caveWoman’s lives, there will be no going back for civilisation and changes take time, even if urgent. However if actively trying, positive improvements happen and perspectives appear (We are certainly able to live more sustainable in our cave-project than in Berlin). It is necessary to try out and to experiment, because only practise can prove our concepts, that we think of, when hoping to rescue the sea, the planet and humanity. And ultimately it is necessary for everyone to make changes: to reduce consumption.
Description:
We choose to live in a cave in the Anaga Biosphere Reserve on Tenerife, Canary Islands. I walked from our cave to the next mountain ridge, here I had a fantastic view onto the valley, the fogs rising, the clouds moving, the river flowing and the sea. The project is what I call a “Life is Art-Project”, in the spirit of Joseph Beuys’ “Social Sculpture”: A home chiselled into the rock, a 100 years ago, became a wildly overgrown roof for artist, other professionals and the public, where theory and concepts are tested in a “Real Time Experiment” and from where further action can be taken. The Project is inspired by Thoreau’s “Walden”, by the wish to learn to live close to and with nature and to reduce consumption. However, during the 1st Project stage (winter 2017/18), as we are used to “comfort” coming from a live in civilisation, we started using electricity, running water, sleeping bags with polyester shells and products from the supermarket a.o. plastics. Hence many questions arise, e.G.: Our lifes got better, living here but how can we improve to make it a win-win situation on nature’s (the sea) side as well? How can our “Real Time Experiment” be applied to solutions for our “Anthropocene Crisis”? How is e.G. the oil platform of shore effecting us, here right now? During the 1st project-stage, many professionals and people from different backgrounds, international and from the Canaries (Artists, Botanists, Activists, CraftsWoman, Designer, Urban Gardeners, Architects, Sozial Scientists, teacher, dropouts, homeless a.o.), have exchanged about this question, visited and helped to build the project. The 2nd stage (2018 - ongoing) will be, continuing to learn how to live and actively understand ways to improve, in favour of future generation of any life form. It is thought for stage 3 (winter 2018/19), to have an online presence as documentation and for exchange. This documentation and pieces of art and writing will draw a contemporary parallel to Thoreau’s “Walden” and remind of Beuys’ ideals. During Stage 4 (2018/19 - ongoing), we plan a.o. a summer school and that we and our guests can live of our garden. We will build a network following the original idea of “Woofing”. Already now we are connected with related projects: “Bandjoun Station” - Cameroon, “Forest of the Giants” - Gabon, “Operation Canopy” - France and many more. Our conclusion so far: it will be difficult to go back to caveWoman’s lives, there will be no going back for civilisation and changes take time, even if urgent. However if actively trying, positive improvements happen and perspectives appear (We are certainly able to live more sustainable in our cave-project than in Berlin). It is necessary to try out and to experiment, because only practise can prove our concepts, that we think of, when hoping to rescue the sea, the planet and humanity. And ultimately it is necessary for everyone to make changes: to reduce consumption.
We choose to live in a cave in the Anaga Biosphere Reserve on Tenerife, Canary Islands. I walked from our cave to the next mountain ridge, here I had a fantastic view onto the valley, the fogs rising, the clouds moving, the river flowing and the sea. The project is what I call a “Life is Art-Project”, in the spirit of Joseph Beuys’ “Social Sculpture”: A home chiselled into the rock, a 100 years ago, became a wildly overgrown roof for artist, other professionals and the public, where theory and concepts are tested in a “Real Time Experiment” and from where further action can be taken. The Project is inspired by Thoreau’s “Walden”, by the wish to learn to live close to and with nature and to reduce consumption. However, during the 1st Project stage (winter 2017/18), as we are used to “comfort” coming from a live in civilisation, we started using electricity, running water, sleeping bags with polyester shells and products from the supermarket a.o. plastics. Hence many questions arise, e.G.: Our lifes got better, living here but how can we improve to make it a win-win situation on nature’s (the sea) side as well? How can our “Real Time Experiment” be applied to solutions for our “Anthropocene Crisis”? How is e.G. the oil platform of shore effecting us, here right now? During the 1st project-stage, many professionals and people from different backgrounds, international and from the Canaries (Artists, Botanists, Activists, CraftsWoman, Designer, Urban Gardeners, Architects, Sozial Scientists, teacher, dropouts, homeless a.o.), have exchanged about this question, visited and helped to build the project. The 2nd stage (2018 - ongoing) will be, continuing to learn how to live and actively understand ways to improve, in favour of future generation of any life form. It is thought for stage 3 (winter 2018/19), to have an online presence as documentation and for exchange. This documentation and pieces of art and writing will draw a contemporary parallel to Thoreau’s “Walden” and remind of Beuys’ ideals. During Stage 4 (2018/19 - ongoing), we plan a.o. a summer school and that we and our guests can live of our garden. We will build a network following the original idea of “Woofing”. Already now we are connected with related projects: “Bandjoun Station” - Cameroon, “Forest of the Giants” - Gabon, “Operation Canopy” - France and many more. Our conclusion so far: it will be difficult to go back to caveWoman’s lives, there will be no going back for civilisation and changes take time, even if urgent. However if actively trying, positive improvements happen and perspectives appear (We are certainly able to live more sustainable in our cave-project than in Berlin). It is necessary to try out and to experiment, because only practise can prove our concepts, that we think of, when hoping to rescue the sea, the planet and humanity. And ultimately it is necessary for everyone to make changes: to reduce consumption.
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