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In the end of February 2021, [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] was invited to [https://janvaneyck.nl/calendar/urgency-intensive-intergovernmental-panel-on-art-and-climate-change Urgency Intensive: IPACC 2021] (International Panel on Art and Climate Change), a symposium curated by Bruno Alves de Almeida & Inga Lāce, and hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie and its residents. The event gathered emerging and established professionals from the fields of arts and beyond, which were divided in two groups: one from the Present, and another one enacting a generation from the Future. Artist duo [https://janvaneyck.nl/participants/arvid-marie Arvid & Marie] created a set of performances with other residents to guide participants from Present to Future and back all along the 3 days event. | In the end of February 2021, [[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] was invited to [https://janvaneyck.nl/calendar/urgency-intensive-intergovernmental-panel-on-art-and-climate-change Urgency Intensive: IPACC 2021] (International Panel on Art and Climate Change), a symposium curated by Bruno Alves de Almeida & Inga Lāce, and hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie and its residents. The event gathered emerging and established professionals from the fields of arts and beyond, which were divided in two groups: one from the Present, and another one enacting a generation from the Future. Artist duo [https://janvaneyck.nl/participants/arvid-marie Arvid & Marie] created a set of performances with other residents to guide participants from Present to Future and back all along the 3 days event. | ||
<br>[[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] produced together with Arvid & Marie a video for the performance | <br>[[The Soft Protest Digest:About|The Soft Protest Digest]] produced together with Arvid & Marie a video for the performance “Travel to the Future”. The video was named for the purpose of this page <i>The Container</i> and asks a lot of open questions about this | ||
<br>The collective also mediated a Break out room with participants intending to the event: the subject of it was “Unfolding more-than-human inclusive institutional ecologies”. | <br>The collective also mediated a Break out room with participants intending to the event: the subject of it was “Unfolding more-than-human inclusive institutional ecologies”. | ||
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The | The | ||
==Text from the video <i>The Container</i== | ==Text from the video <i>The Container</i>== | ||
This text was written in collaboration with Arvid & Marie, and read by Marie. | This text was written in collaboration with Arvid & Marie, and read by Marie. | ||
<br>The music was made by Arvid and Robin from The Soft Protest Digest arranged it with the video. | <br>The music was made by Arvid and Robin from The Soft Protest Digest arranged it with the video. | ||
<span style="color: | <span style="color:pink;">Is the recipient empty | ||
<br>or is the food invisible? | <br>or is the food invisible? | ||
As you stand in your | As you stand in your present existence | ||
Your primal container is the cell | Your primal container is the cell | ||
<br>now slaw of skin, scale or shell | <br>now slaw of skin, scale or shell | ||
In a perpetual transformation | In a perpetual transformation we move into a different time and become recipients | ||
Again | Again | ||
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<br>— the main ingredient in the recipe of life | <br>— the main ingredient in the recipe of life | ||
As life emerged and | As life emerged and thrived in the Earth’s oceans, | ||
<br>the chemical concentration of both the inside of cells and most fluids used by living beings | <br>the chemical concentration of both the inside of cells and most fluids used by living beings | ||
<br>are surprisingly close | <br>are surprisingly close to sea water | ||
Your very own blood | Your very own blood | ||
<br>Your blood osmotic pressure and nutrients concentration | <br>Your blood osmotic pressure and nutrients concentration | ||
<br>is constantly regulated by organs | <br>is constantly regulated by organs like the kidneys to remain close to a sea water like concentration | ||
Despite your evolution on land, | Despite your evolution on land, | ||
<br>the very soup you | <br>the very soup you contain within your membrane is your own synthetic ocean | ||
As you project yourself in a different time, you wonder about containers, recipients, like institutions: | As you project yourself in a different time, you wonder about containers, recipients, like institutions: | ||
<br>What do they contain, what do they separate, what would the primordial soup inside of them create? | <br>What do they contain, what do they separate, what would the primordial soup inside of them create? | ||
Do you sometimes have | Do you sometimes have metabolic anxiety? | ||
<br>What to consume, what to contain? | <br>What to consume, what to contain? | ||
Refill and re-imagine | Refill and re-imagine the content of yourself | ||
<br>as if your mind was a 2 foot compacter that squeezes | <br>as if your mind was a 2 foot compacter that squeezes Beyond Meat burgers | ||
<br>to test for chewiness, | <br>to test for chewiness, juiciness and elasticity | ||
Can you reach that peak meatiness? Can you reach your success? | Can you reach that peak meatiness? Can you reach your success? | ||
Alright | Alright | ||
<br>You leave your current existence behind, what do you wish | <br>You leave your current existence behind, what do you wish to replenish your new body with? | ||
Chlorophyl colored concepts | Chlorophyl colored concepts of post combustion world? | ||
<br>Self organising ecologies where land | <br>Self organising ecologies where land is given back to the landless? | ||
<br>Oceans to water bodies, foraged lunches in gardens of abundance? | <br>Oceans to water bodies, foraged lunches in gardens of abundance? | ||
A glass of clean water | A glass of clean water | ||
Are you thinking of naming your offsprings Chevron, ExxonMobil, | Are you thinking of naming your offsprings Chevron, ExxonMobil, or Royal Dutch Shell? | ||
<br>Maybe you’re hoping for that techno-fixes that will capture carbon? | <br>Maybe you’re hoping for that techno-fixes that will capture carbon? | ||
<br>Capture your life as it is, | <br>Capture your life as it is, in stasis without hope? | ||
<br>Remove you from diseases | <br>Remove you from diseases or bio-manufacture a new kidney, made of cellulosic algae | ||
<br>cellulosic algae kidney filtering GMOs, soy and Soylent, taking | <br>cellulosic algae kidney filtering GMOs, soy and Soylent, taking in carbon dioxyde direct, | ||
<br>excreting farmer unions | <br>excreting farmer unions and IPCC committees | ||
Is that it? Will fictions save you | Is that it? Will fictions save you from yourselves? What stories will you tell robots? | ||
Is there a future in our nature? | Is there a future in our nature? | ||
In the end it all comes down | In the end it all comes down to the recipient | ||
What recipient is the IPACC, | What recipient is the IPACC, what does it contain? | ||
<br>What recipient will you | <br>What recipient will you chose to become? | ||
Is the recipient empty | Is the recipient empty or is the food invisible? | ||
Right, you feel it now don’t you? | Right, you feel it now don’t you? | ||
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decompose yourself | decompose yourself | ||
<br>decompose yourself | <br>decompose yourself as we shall all become compost | ||
Again</span> | Again</span> | ||