Land - Law

In 2012 I found myself caught in the paradox of needing to own land in order to enter into the relationship with place that I needed, while at the same time realizing that ownership itself undermined that very relation. Out of this tension, I created a legal document that returns the land its inherent right to itself.

My research have depended on this priviledge to anchor myself in this place. The possibility of doing so has come at the expense of values whose significance I’ve become even more convinced by over the course of my research. Those values are for example, prioritizing nature’s inherent right to itself over private property, the precedence of Indigenous rights over economic interests, and the fact that a sustainable society cannot be based on growth as a fundamental logic. Thanks to the growth economy, the money I saved as a weekend-working teenager could grow in a savings account fund. Thanks to getting a wage labour teaching position, I could take out a bank loan using my savings as a down payment. Thanks to land and nature being treated as commodities in our economic system, I was able to buy this place and for the first time put down long term roots in a way I needed to understand what I needed to understand.

This makes my project deeply indebted to those who pays the price for western economic growth. I pay my deepest respect to the ecosystems that currently suffers the first blows of ecological collapse, to indigenous people’s deep connection to land, water, and all living beings. I recognize their ongoing struggles and resilience, and I am committed to learning more about their history, culture, and rights, as well as supporting their ongoing efforts to protect and preserve their land and heritage. I pay respect to the land, water, air and all living beings that sustain the web of life through their relations here, and I support their inherent right to sustain and thrive. Its boundaries defines what practices this place affords. Its practices are dedicated to explore how connection to land can be deep and at the same time inclusive to other connetions. As the life space on earth shrinks and populations are forced to migrate, the global north needs to make space for those and for their different ways of connecting with these places. The practices of this place wants to invite that and explore sensorimotor ways of being with place that may not work for all, but have a potential to go beyond cultural differences. 

• Through the research and artistic practice situated in this place, this  is acted out in different ways
• land back.  movements such as natures rights, indigenous rights and neurodivergent rights
• processing being owner of land: investigations into legal histories:
• manumissions
• myndighetsansökan
• bolivia