"Plants for Plants, every industrial plant needs a plantation", BARENTS SPEKTAKEL 2019, KIRKENES
Plants for Plants – Every industrial plant needs a plantation”:
The theme of the Barents Spektakel Festival 2019 was «The Silk Road of the Arctic» and «The World’s Northernmost Chinatown.»
The systematic use of certain plants in order to clean water and soil of heavy metals and chemicals is a method of stabilizing and recovering a natural balance after a site has been exposed to pollution. This method is indeed the only alternative on certain sites in China and the rest of Asia where the textile industry has caused severe pollution of land and groundwater.I placed a greenhouse filled with plants on a pedestrian street in Kirkenes in order to demonstrate the fact that the systematic and considered use of certain plants with the ability to absorb heavy metals and pollutants could restore balance after serious pollution. The idea was also to demonstrate that outsourcing these industries to Asiatic countries hides - to us - the fact that our consumption pattern influences the environment severely.
The project was realized in cooperation with Tone Aandal, Nibio Svanhovd.
The theme of the Barents Spektakel Festival 2019 was «The Silk Road of the Arctic» and «The World’s Northernmost Chinatown.»
The systematic use of certain plants in order to clean water and soil of heavy metals and chemicals is a method of stabilizing and recovering a natural balance after a site has been exposed to pollution. This method is indeed the only alternative on certain sites in China and the rest of Asia where the textile industry has caused severe pollution of land and groundwater.I placed a greenhouse filled with plants on a pedestrian street in Kirkenes in order to demonstrate the fact that the systematic and considered use of certain plants with the ability to absorb heavy metals and pollutants could restore balance after serious pollution. The idea was also to demonstrate that outsourcing these industries to Asiatic countries hides - to us - the fact that our consumption pattern influences the environment severely.
The project was realized in cooperation with Tone Aandal, Nibio Svanhovd.