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17---------- AURI SACRA FAMES (2005)

Auri sacra fames (”Accursed hunger for gold”) was a comment on the
closing of the UPM Kymmene plywood factory in Kuopio, Finland. A little
pamphlet was anonymously distributed in public spaces as a part of the
ANTI Contemporary Art Festival. The booklet contained a very compressed
meditation on the transformations of work, substance and energy in regard
to the forest industry: How the wealth based on the ”green gold” gradually
transformed into an accursed hunger for endless economic growth, and what
happened to the working force, i.e. the reserve or the multitude, in this process.



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