A Woman Cleaning performance by Gitte Sætre
- a visually rhetorical contribution to the debate on economical growth.
Woman Cleaning Growth; Parking Statoil was a 7 days long walk from the Stock Marked in Oslo past the Norwegian Parlament and along coastal roads up to the Norwegian Oil capital Stavanger. An exhaustive artistic gesture to meditate upon an important and complex theme; the Norwegian oil and gas industry. through the performance the artist is highlighting the connection between politics and finance and between states and individuals. Wanting to illuminate how the financial value system, even after the 2008-2009 financial collapse, still practice short-term growth at the expense of sustainable long-term thinking.
The financial global world seems to spins its net into politics and our daily life, in many ways, the situation makes democracy impossible.
If Norway is to respect its obligations to the Paris agreement, as a nation we have 6-12 years left before we have used our carbon budget. After the carbon budget has been used up, Norwegian working life and everyday life will have been through a shift, a green shift. Today, we have no idea how the conversion will bee and this was something the artist was spending some time thinking about while walking the line.
The work was part of the7 weeks campaign 'Call for Change' ( Opprop for Omstilling) before the parliamentary elections in september 2017. And shown in public screening in Stavanger in 2018 curated by Hege Tapio.
A Woman Cleaning performance by Gitte Sætre
- a visually rhetorical contribution to the debate on economical growth.
Woman Cleaning Growth; Parking Statoil was a 7 days long walk from the Stock Marked in Oslo past the Norwegian Parlament and along coastal roads up to the Norwegian Oil capital Stavanger. An exhaustive artistic gesture to meditate upon an important and complex theme; the Norwegian oil and gas industry. through the performance the artist is highlighting the connection between politics and finance and between states and individuals. Wanting to illuminate how the financial value system, even after the 2008-2009 financial collapse, still practice short-term growth at the expense of sustainable long-term thinking.
The financial global world seems to spins its net into politics and our daily life, in many ways, the situation makes democracy impossible.
If Norway is to respect its obligations to the Paris agreement, as a nation we have 6-12 years left before we have used our carbon budget. After the carbon budget has been used up, Norwegian working life and everyday life will have been through a shift, a green shift. Today, we have no idea how the conversion will bee and this was something the artist was spending some time thinking about while walking the line.
The work was part of the7 weeks campaign 'Call for Change' ( Opprop for Omstilling) before the parliamentary elections in september 2017. And shown in public screening in Stavanger in 2018 curated by Hege Tapio.
