torsdag den 28. maj 2009

First ideas on the project KOLONI BOX

Living in a democracy, a democracy with colony as domestic status somehow seems like a paradox.

To live in a society, where everything, in one way or another, is defined from the point of view – to be a colony – this is living on the Faroe Islands.
Still the Faroe Islands are not a regular colony, Denmark dos not rule as a oppressing authority, i.e. the Danish state dos not directly earn great benefits on behalf of the Faroe Islands, at least not as we know it from a regular colony e.g. as Denmark did on occasion of the United States Virgin Islands.

Looking close at the notion “the Faroe Islands as a colony” several matters appear. What is in the box called “the Faroe Islands”? How dos this work contrary the rest of the world? Is it democratic?

This makes the “paradox” relatively problematic, not easy to recognize and even more difficult to stir an opposition. Because: What is there to oppose? To what purpose? What is the aim afterwards? Which consequences will it have for the social and personal assets? If so, what would replace these assets? Why do some people move away from or to the Faroe Islands? What chooses somebody who moves away or to the Faroe Islands to bring with himself? Is this something “we” accept as a part of us?
How is the situation on the Faroe Islands today?
Why do people set up events (for women) with “New York” and “Sex and the City” as a model? What about the man? Is “the Faroese man” capable of identifying with the whole idea about “pilot-whale killings, a nice large car and a fine house, a traditional family” etc.? What about those who can not recognize themselves in this way of living? What about outsider, sub and queer cultures in the Faroe Islands? What about a unique queer culture on the Faroe Islands? Is it “permitted”?
And why has David Bowie not yet had a concert on the Faroe Islands?

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