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  • When Your Ancestors Are The Problem

    When Your Ancestors Are The Problem

    Earlier this month, we hosted a live session with Rev Sara Jolena Wolcott as part of Homeward Bound, our new online extension of a school called HOME. We had a large audience and lots of questions, not all of which Sara had time to answer during the Zoom call, so I sat down a couple of weeks afterwards and recorded this conversation where we go further into the roots of the ancestor work she’s been doing.

  • The Commons: An Unfinished History

    A city navigating the transition from the old certainties of heavy industry to the promises of a post-industrial future. Out in the fjord, we passed a tanker with SHALE GAS FOR PROGRESS emblazoned on its side. The venue was a shiny new arts centre, the event a seminar to mark the opening of the Greenlightdistrict Art Festival. The welcome was warm and following the opening lecture from Ove Jakobsen, professor of ecological economics at Bodø, I had an hour to unfold some of the backstory to the industrial world to which we find ourselves the heirs.

    This was a story about fishermen and hill-farmers, about the history of how people have made a living and made lives for themselves on the edges of a continent or in the hill country where there’s never been much profit to be made. It’s a story about why the history of the commons bears no relation to Garret Hardin’s famous ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ – and how this history is still unfinished.

    Greenlightdistrict Kunstfestival, Porsgrunn, Norway