Yesterday an academic background in Agricultural Sciences, today one of the most acclaimed artists on the international scene. Ossigeno 12 met Carsten Höller, who took us on a path - the one of his unmistakable imagery - to investigate the shelter offered by his art both to the human right to the land, and to the sacrosanct rights of the land.
What does the philosophical principle of intergenerational justice mean? We asked one of its noble fathers, the philosopher and professor Alberto Pirni, to find out how it fertilely grafts not only onto the abstract concept of morale, but also onto the concrete reality of the soil, in terms of sustainability and responsibility in the consumption of resources. Revolutionizing the alibi of Enough.
The 2015 documentary Tomorrow is the antidote to the apocalyptic, dead-end scenarios daily produced by the media as a conditioned reflex to the ringing of the environmental crisis bell. In a road movie that stops at virtuous examples discovered at every latitude of the planet, answers such as urban gardens, permaculture and composting are already here, germinating in the ground.
C’è più vita in un cucchiaio da tavola riempito di terra, che nella totalità di esseri umani che abitano il pianeta. Ossigeno 12 ospita Emanuele Isonio di Re Soil Foundation, ente scientifico no profit, per dare autorevole voce alla vastissima vitalità del suolo, violato nello strappo dall’agricoltura sostenibile all’agroindustria intensiva, perché ciò che accade di sopra cura la salute del mondo di sotto ma, soprattutto, viceversa.
Regeneration as rebirth, where the added value lies in the absolute absence of fatigue required. Regenerative agriculture, which gives the soil total freedom to flourish again in accordance with its natural times and ways, thinks beyond the soil and embraces the entire ecosystem. After all, the foundation of its thinking lies right in the layers of the soil, called horizons; the sustainable horizon of our future lies, then, in fertile idleness.
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The white surrounding the exterior of this Ossigeno issue also concludes its interior through the photographic series by Angelo Del Negro, immersed in the White Beaches of Rosignano, boldly renamed the Caribbean of Livorno. However, white sand and crystal clear water are nothing but the fake Paradise of the spill of bleaching agents by the nearby Solvay. Because appearances can sometimes be deceiving.
Climate change outlined through the eyes and traits of cartoonists. Together with Nicola Mari, Ossigeno inaugurates a path dealing with the subject through the strength and sensitivity of illustration.
The introductory chapter of a path of reflection that Ossigeno here undertakes on the intimate relationship between human rights and contemporary art, between the body and the shelter, because critical thought is humankind's greatest line of defense.
One precise value as a differentiating element. Our conversation with Hilary Jones, ethical director at Lush, about storms, techniques and the results of a militant communication.