Slow Down
This performance and video project was created during the artivism Gathering in Budapest, October 2020 "Our life today has accelerated to an unbelievable speed. We built a world and a system based on consumption, greed and thoughtlessness. We produce to then throw away, we drill and dig until there is nothing left, we keep animals in cruel circumstances to slaughter them, some of which then we simply just throw in the trash, while we drive other species to extinction. We make our fellow humans work as slaves for our luxury , while we preach love and care, shutting an eye on reality. The human, sitting on what our kind produced and left to rot, which is now taken back by nature. Imagining the constant destruction we created , it walks us through a trip in their mind. Each act pressures the planet, each act takes us closer to decay. Building up towards the total crash, now is the time to slow down. Now is the time to change, to take action, to lighten the weight which we put on this world. Now is the time to wake up. Through this change, the human thinks about life where we are not exploiting our resources, it imagines a life where we create harmony between nature and humans , where we care for what we take, and we respect it."
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