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Nomad Territory - from the
Circle to the Square "Art, like Architecture, is in a violation of natural space." Most spaces inhabited by nomadic people are constructed out of a circular form: From the Eskimos Igloos, to the Mongolian Yurt, the North American Indians Tipis, to the Pygmy Huts of Africa... At the end of this century, we are witnessing the final stages of a settling process, which began 10 000years B-C- and witch has spread across the entire surface of the earth. We are witnessing the mortal agony of hunting and gathering peoples, by converting them no more Into agrarian peoples but into a sort of zombie, incapable of surviving the economic disturbances brought on by financial markets and International Trusts that hope to transform the entire world into "squares heads", and consumers of hamburgers and Coca-cola. We still devastate their land and exploit their resources: Minerals, forests and Livestock. Even worse, we destroy their cultures and beliefs by forcing them to adopt our religion and welcome hordes of tourists. Nomadic territory are also migratory zones for Whales, Salmon, Pilgrim Falcons, Reindeer from Siberia, Bison and swallows. "Father, I wish you good health for ever, we will always wander in new places and our reindeer will never die." (Siberian song). | |
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