"Corn Field Performance" video Part3

Part 3 of 14
Machine and Noise Actions M o v i n g A I R (invisible matter, which contains oxygen, hydrogen, pollen, viruse, dust particles and who knows what else...)
MACHINES and INTIMACY
THE INTIMACY OF OUR FOOD, THE INTIMACY OF GROWINGPLANTS which become our food.
if we dont eat, we die. what is more essential than food and water. what is probably what we take for granted the most in rich countries especially, but where our food comes from, who controls our food production, who is deciding, what is grown and how it is grown (what system is used to grow our food), and who ever thinks about this?

genetic modification - let the discussion include interdisciplinary exchange and reflection:
The destructive possibilities of genetically modified seed and plants, is not necessarily from an isolated seed or plant, such as those that are genetically modified to release a synthetic bt-toxin (based on a naturally occuring toxin released from a certain species of bacteria). It is when a whole field of gm seeds and plants release this toxin in the environment, in the soil, like any pesticide, it is the quantity, in such a mass produced way that poisons. And there is no interest in just having one little genetically modified seed out there. Industrial agriculture is about mass production of food. And mass production of food is about the efficiency of growing one kind of food, one plant, one crop, which is called monoculture.

So putting one gm seed in a polyculture system wont do much. It is not about excluding gm research; gm research goes on in scientific laboratories, because of human curiosity to explore and understand and learn about the mysteries of life, nature and the universe, and is funded by business that is driven by profit making. But to use gm technology for utilitarian purposes, is absurd, when it is based in profit and for a market economy that ignores the destructiveness of the monoculture system that gm products is embedded within.

Nature is utilitarian for human, and can be seen, as efficient, non-polluting and healthy, without all the synthetic inputs (put in for profit reason, because of corporate interest in the interconnectedness of oil to the pesticide-fertilizer industrial, monoculture agriculture industry). The point is moreso, that why buy a gm seed, which is weaker, pollutes and is in a system that pollutes soil and other species, and does not add to, but takes away from the importance of maintaining biodiversity and a rich genetic diversity for the health of the planet, and in particular, gm seeds are owned by corporations, so you would have to buy them, like farmers who run industrial agricultural farms are dependent on large corporations to sell them seeds, and all the other soil pollutants that go with it. you can get your seeds from nature (while they are still around) and for free, where we create polyculture, intimacy, small scale.

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• videoperformanceart
• food
• questionning
• agriculture
• monoculture
• biodiversity
• geneticmodification