THE TREMBLING WORLD
This project takes as its focus local and global environmental crisis.We have seen in 2009 a new pandemic and dangerous form of collective hallucination – rippling throughout the countries of the world, known generally as PIG flu. In this project we suggest that there is a direct correlation between the name PIG (which also stands for the advent of a Post Internet Generation) and ‘the trembling world’ where there is no guarantee of human survival beyond the niddle of this century. Those who live now and who will live into the next fifty years have their psyches marked, scarred and touched by the environmental and ecological imbalance which faces us all. Our project will help to profile the wisdom of the Mamo – an incredibly important tribe living in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Colombia who are facing a deep environmental crisis caused by the theft and destruction of sacred stones and invasion of sacred places in the landscape which they believe they must uphold and preserve to help maintain the harmony and health of the whole world. Reaching out to the world – using contemporary technologies – we will seek to recuperate and heal their landscape…..and to draw attention to their wisdom and vision. One of their Leaders said earlier this year:
‘Our sacred sites, such as Jukul-wa, are not part of the commercial world. We have always respected what is sacred. We cannot go freely to these places and these sacred sites cannot be bought and sold. This is not a new message, we have been saying this for years. Ah…
The world may begin to tremble.
We do not know who is going to fall sick first, but we are expecting pandemics, and because these are manifestations of the sickness suffered by nature itself, it is going to be hard to find drugs that can cure the coming sickness.
Negative forces are going to continue to grow stronger, so we ourselves must continue working positively so that the consequences can be averted. We must work together with the Younger Brother, and now that species are disappearing we must explain what is going on. This is happening because they are acting against the sacred sites that are Owners of these species.
This is what we know from our long analysis, and we must not only show this to the Western world, but to other indigenous peoples. They must decide what they must do within their own territories. Each one of us must decide what we are going to do. More and more indicators appear, like the birth of deformed children, as sacred sites are interfered with. That is our thought and this above all we will continue saying to the world. This is why we were born and live and this is what we declare. We invite other indigenous people and all people in the world to grasp the situation in which we now live’.
As we see the emergence of PIG flu this year in manhy countries we wonder if the Mamo Leaders’ words are coming true. There is evidence that those suffering from this flu have had treatment by drugs which cause nightmares and that we suggest that these can add up collective nightmare (beyond a hallucination). Over time this can lead to the loss of memory of what is important…..perhaps even the arrival of a Post Internet Generation…. PIGs will lose memory of activities, actions and rituals which are in 2009-2010 commonplace…from networked media to mobile technologies. Sometime in the future, a search will take place to recall this lost knowledge which will contain warnings about how to avoid disaster and wipeout in the future. The key task now will be to to help the future generation and we seek to do this by helping to restore the sacred stones to the Mamo tribe now…..it may be the last act of the internet generation.
We propose to work with a group of people living across the network working collectively together – with branches of the bricolabs list helping to spread the word out speedily in the next few months – to build a collectiveintelligencyagency and new source of aid for the Mamo people….We have help already offered from the e-tribes in Brazil and I will be meeting some of them when I visit Brazil in November.
Our approach to helping to create the codes/content will be:
Write an essay announcing the project
Do an inventory of where the Mamo sacred stones are around the world (recruit people to help find these and upload the information onto a new website) and show on a map where they lie
Recruit legal help to advise on returning the stones to their rightful places
Work with the Mamo leaders and the Trust which represents their life (which is London based) to communicate through online stories and images to progression of this work…to reach out to others around the network…to think and dream together to create awarenss of the Mamo belief systems which hold important messages for the whole world facing environmental degradation and ruination…..to prepare a set of narratives and drawings and tales to bring to the E-Tribal exhibition next spring…..
Hold onto the Trembling World…!
Bronac
