Art Not Oil

http://baobavoador.noblogs.org/post/2011/12/07/jorra-oleo-por-nossos-pes/

action in the museum of modern art in the digital culture festival. br. a
quart of oil dumped on the patrimonied floor of the museum. above the
spiral patch, a poster: 'analog activism - Vale, Petrobras, telefônica,
Ford, IBM and politicians try to destroy the free and ancestral culture  -
pours oil under our feet.' as antagonists the companies that control almost
all the Brazilian cultural funding.

not only cultural, they grab all aspects of human life, natural resources
extracted in a predatory manner, ravaging and destroying the ecosystem,
producing a lot of money that is not shared by all of us, appropriate the
technology, holds the power of knowledge through their engineers and
technicians, funding to universities. at the end of the tip, invest in an
ironically elitist cultural production where we all end up being mere
consumers of these resources, alienating even more people.

recent episodes of catastrophe generated by these companies are Chevron Oil
Spill in Brazil, and years ago in the Gulf of Mexico, or the spilling of
enriched uranium in Caetité (bahia), since the energy generated in these
corners need to be transported to other places in the world. after the
spilling of nuclear radiation in Japan the country is studying to produce
here their primary resources such as aluminum, much of the 'clean energy'
that we would produce with Belo Monte dam would be for dirty industries,
for export. carbon credit goes on the same line - 'clean' gringo
environmental damage by replanting with eucalypts. the construction of
ports and transcontinentals further enhance the power of those companies
that see their resources flowing more easily, thereby increasing their
exorbitant profits and with it the environmental destruction.

occupations of squares, tactical media actions in museums are experiments
of what's to come. the arrival of mega-events and the reality of
megaempreendimentos cities are straining its inhabitants. the area of
​​culture is one of the layers of meaning which must be re-appropriated
from this companies.

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