Do you own land that you want to set free? Then you can sign this agreement. Download, print two copies, sign the agreement together with the land. Send both copies to Lina Persson, Climate-Just Worldings, Stockholms Konstnärliga Högskola, Valhallavägen 189, 115 53 Stockholm. You will recieve one copy back in the mail, with the artist's signature. The other copy will be part of a growing archive within the research project Climate-Just Worldings. You can also contact lina.persson@uniarts.se to have two printed copies sent to you.
This legal document have been developed with generous feedback from Pia Björkstrand, Carmen Blanco Valer and the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. The document is designed by Nedine Kachornamsong. It is free to use for anyone who wishes to make such agreements with land.
ɛlsə-Land
Sovereign land, that has been given back its inherent rights to itself, through an agreement for change of legal identity. (2019-ongoing)
This rocky patch of land has been an important teacher and collaborator of mine since 2013. It has shaped my work and research but has also been thoroughly shaped by the research. Here, I have improvised a way of living and working that responds to felt but not yet fully understood affordances. It has become a platform for a kind of joint life and work that finally feels genuinely collaborative.
This place has also emancipated my practice, destituting its dependencies on fossil fuels and constituting its ecological dependencies. It has also served as a physical double for the imaginary, inner storyworld New Reactive Earth.
This page is an attempt to share, the lived forms of my research. These forms resonate with “storied landscapes” and “land as pedagogy" as described by Betasamosake Simpson and Ferdinand Delignys tuning and listening ways to generate environments for common life.
Contact lina.persson@uniarts.se to propose workshops, collaborations, residencies or visits that explore how this place shapes knowledge and how it transforms through presences and knowledges.
