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Aktivismens fremtid afhænger af kunst, lokalt ejerskab og et helt nyt sprog
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Uddrag fra Undergangsfortælling i kollektiv tone af Other Story og Goodiepal & Pals, oplæst under en aktion på Charlottenborg marts 2018
Der er i det politiske billede mere end nogensinde brug for folkelige bevægelser, der kan give uafhængige inputs til debatten omkring energi og klima her i Danmark, både på det globale, nationale, regionale og lokale plan. Vi lever i en tid hvor politikerne barberer rammesætninger og kompromiser bort, hvor forligene indenfor energi og miljø syltes, og hvor ngo’er og folkelige bevægelser bliver færre og mindre slagkraftige.
Det har vi i dette nyhedsbrev bedt professor Frede Hvelplund, tidligere klimakommissær og formand for Concito Connie Hedegaard, kunstner og studerende Madeleine Kate McGowan og lektor ved DTU John Holten Andersen om at forholde sig til, for de hører på hver deres måde blandt de danskere, der forsøger at råbe civilsamfundet op.
Da John Holten-Andersen i marts fik bragt sin kronik Nekrolog: Miljøministeriet er afgået ved døden i Information, blev han for eksempel oversvømmet af reaktioner. ”Artiklen skabte virkelig røre. Folk ringede og skrev. De virkede chokerede, og ville høre mere. For kunne tingene virkelig stå så skidt til, som jeg beskrev dem?”, siger John Holten-Andersen.
Øjensynligt ja. John har været en aktiv figur i den danske miljøbevægelse siden 70’erne, hvor han var med til at grundlægge NOAH – sin tids stærkeste, danske ngo indenfor klima, natur og miljø, der i høj grad var med til at påvirke politikerne til i 1971 at skabe et miljøministerium, som for alvor kunne sætte miljøet på den politiske dagsorden.
Men selvom John og hans kolleger dengang jublede ved nyheden, vidste de også at de havde skabt et tveægget sværd: ”Vi fornemmede at tingene nu ville blive hevet op på et helt andet, bureaukratisk niveau. At nogle helt andre mekanismer ville gå i gang, som lå udenfor vores rækkevidde. Men jeg tror aldrig vi havde forestillet os, at man på sigt ville kvæle ministeriet så meget, at det i stedet blev en løftestang for det vækstsamfund, som vi dengang var så meget imod.”
Derfor erklærede han i sin kronik miljøministeriet for dødt. Spørgsmålet er så, hvem der skal skabe et alternativ, der kan tage over.
Hvad gør vi for atter at vække civilsamfundet til aktivistisk kamp, og hvordan skaber vi en fremtid, hvor borgerne holder beslutningstagerne effektivt op på energi og miljø?
John Holten mener at svaret på de spørgsmål skal findes i en af hans egne, store passioner, sproget: ”Miljøbevægelsen har i for mange år været alt for teknokratisk og har gjort tingene til et spørgsmål om en masse indviklede, tekniske og bureaukratiske detaljer, som den brede befolkning ikke har kunnet se sig selv i. Miljø og klima er blevet et specialistdomæne hvor man skal kende en masse fremmedord og regne på vildt abstrakte tal. Det ligger så lang fra hvad man ellers sanser og oplever. Derfor står vi nu i en situation hvor vi ikke har den samme folkelige opbakning som for 20-30 år siden. I stedet skal vi tilbage til et mere umiddelbart sprog hvor det handler om det vi ser, lugter, føler og hører. Teknokratsproget gør at embedsmænd i dag kan sidde og kommunikere med hinanden overalt på kloden, men det har også gjort miljøbevægelsen utrolig fragmenteret. Lige så snart du i stedet møder mennesker face to face i en konkret, lokal kontekst, så taler konteksten med, for den sansede virkelighed kan du ikke abstrahere fra. Derfor må aktivismen få liv gennem det lokale engagement, som miljøbevægelsen havde i starten. Med konkrete, håndgribelige projekter, som man for eksempel har haft på Samsø omkring Vedvarende Energi-Ø. Og så er det alfa og omega at have opbakning fra kulturlivet. At genskabe aktivismen er også at genetablere hele det kunstneriske miljø. I 70’erne bakkede musikere, forfattere og digtere op om miljøbevægelsen, og dem skal vi have tilbage. For det er kunstnerne, dem, der kan arbejde med sproget og gøre tingene poetiske, som kan vække vores følelser og atter skabe forbindelsen til naturen, så vi får lyst til at kæmpe for den”, forklarer John Holten Andersen.
Hør nu, foregangsland – det her går altså ikke!
At sproget også handler om de rigtige historiefortællinger peger tidligere klimakommissær, Connie Hedegaard på. Ligesom John Holten Andersen har hun bemærket at ngo’erne har svært ved at få momentum i pressen, og at den digitale medievirkelighed stiller nye krav til afsenderen:
”I gamle dage risikerede ting, der gik skævt at skylle ud over medierne, men nu er der så mange medier og platforme at der ikke rigtig kommer det samme, store skred. I dag skal budskabet være virkelig præcist og fængende for at brænde igennem, og her er det svært at sætte dagsordenen for aktivisterne. Mange i medierne synes allerede at det der med klima, det har vi jo allerede hørt om. Så folkebevægelserne mangler at kigge på deres mediehåndtering og finde nogle nye vinkler, der kan mobilisere læserne og gøre dem til potentielle aktivister og give dem en positiv vision. Man må sige ’hey foregangsland, det her går altså ikke, nu skal vi vise jer et alternativ!”
Connie Hedegaard mener dog ikke at aktivismens krise ligger i, at ngo’erne er blevet for store, tværtimod: ”Jeg synes det er vigtigt at aktivismen også kan få tyngde igennem store foreninger, der kan skabe en reel modvægt til at de instanser, der forsøger at bremse klima-arbejdet.
Ngo’erne er presset økonomisk p.g.a færre bevillinger, mens dem man typisk er oppe imod, har oprustet, og det får klimabevægelsen til at tabe momentum.”
Generationsskiftet skal ikke være et stafetløb
En anden ting, der kan gøre genfødslen af en ny og mere aktivistisk miljøbevægelse besværlig, er det generationsskifte, man står overfor. Mange af dem, der i 70’erne var med til at opdyrke det aktivistiske miljø i civilsamfundet, går snart på pension. Men hvordan står det egentlig til med den aktivistiske ånd hos de unge?
”Hos Noah har vi en meget aktiv ungdomsgruppe, der har taget involveringen op på et helt nyt niveau. De sørger simpelthen for at de nye, unge medlemmer bliver genopdraget ude i skoven og lærer at tænde bål og sove under åben himmel. For som de siger: vi bliver de nødt til at kende den natur, som vi kæmper for. Og mange unge i dag har aldrig nogensinde lavet deres eget bål, eller fanget en fisk”, fortæller John Holten, som er begejstret for denne nye kampånd, som han ikke kunne få øje på for bare 10 år siden: ”Jeg er faktisk ikke enig i, at der ikke er mange gode ting i gang indenfor aktivismen. Man hører bare aldrig om dem i medierne. De sociale platforme er i stedet blevet et vigtigt redskab, som de unge benytter i udbredelsen af deres budskaber, og der kan min generation desværre ikke rigtig være med. Vi må bare være der som kustoder og klappe dem på skulderen og øse af vores erfaringer.”
Frede Hvelplund er professor på Aalborg Universitet ved institut for planlægning, og som forsker indenfor energi, miljø og klima er hans primære opgave at stille viden til rådighed, som civilsamfundet kan bruge. Han mener at klimakrisen er så alvorlig, at man har brug for alle hænder:
”Klimakampen er ikke et stafetløb, hvor man bare overbringer faklen til de unge. Problemet er så stort, at alle generationer skal arbejde på det her, for der er både brug for de unge og dem med erfaring. Vi behøver et generationssamarbejde, for der er ikke tid til at hver generation opfinder den dybe tallerken.”
Også Connie Hedegaard kan spore nye toner: ”Der er ved at være en utilfredshed med at den grønne dagsorden ikke fylder nok i den offentlige, politiske debat. Deri ligger kimen til at mobilisere mennesker igen, for der er et paradigmeskifte på vej, også hos de unge, der laver madspildskampagner, tilslutter sig deleøkonomien og stiller spørgsmål på læreanstalterne om, hvorfor deres læseplaner ikke indeholder stof om alternative, økonomiske modeller.”
Når fravalget af klimasynd bliver til et æstetisk udtryk
Den 23 marts 2018 trådte Madeleine Kate McGowan op på scenen i Kunsthal Charlottenborg og læste op fra digtet Undergangsfortælling i kollektiv tone. Det var under Cph: Dox, og hun var ikke alene: omkring hende stod kunstnerfællesskabet Goodiepal & Pals samt kollegerne fra filmprojektet Other Story, som også blev vist på festivalen, og under oplæsningen bevægede de sig alle rundt blandt tilhørerne, og interagerede med publikum. Sammen havde de i ugerne forinden arbejdet på fortællingen ved at logget sig på dokumentet overalt i verden og skrive om den angst, vrede og frustration over klima- og flygtningesituationen, som præger deres hverdag:
”Arbejdsgruppen omkring Other Story blev skabt for at inspirere og fordi medierne ikke lever op til deres opgave om at fortælle konstruktivt om den verden, vi lever i. I stedet viser de blot synspunkter, der opponerer og skaber konflikt. Other Story organiserer sig i rejsegrupper, som tager rundt i verden. Når vi så skal forberede en aktion samles vi derfor gerne online, hvor vi skriver direkte i et fælles google dokument, som så læses op, når vi mødes til aktionen”, fortæller Madeleine Kate.
Hun læser kunsthistorie, it design og skriver speciale om klima-narrativer. Men Madeleine Kate er også et godt eksempel på det kunstneriske engagement, som John Holten-Andersen efterlyser, og den anderledes måde, hvorpå nogle unge i dag vælger at organisere sig aktivistisk:
”Vi ved godt, at vi alle er hyklere – ingen kan leve et ’rent’ klima liv, så derfor bliver vi nødt til at vise vores sårbarhed ved at lave performances og aktivisme, som skaber empati, involverer og viser respekt. Kunstnerisk undersøger vi begrænsningens udtryk, for hvad sker der, når man ikke må flyve men skal tage toget jorden rundt, når man ikke må spise kød, og når man står og forelæser, men bliver nødt til at gå tidligere, fordi man ikke kører bil, men skal nå bussen hjem? Der er et interessant potentiale i de rumlige ting, der sker, når man ikke længere kan følge sit begær. Og på den måde forvandler man den ukomfortable afståelse fra klimasynd til noget positivt”, slutter hun.
Links:
John Holten Andersens kronik:
Frede Hvelplund:
Conie Hedegaard:
https://concito.dk/klimaambassaden
Other Story – hele undergangsfortællingen fra aktionen på Charlottenborg:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1owue53QQoZgbayTxNpLBo3raSueF9TeF4en3AdKA7uc/edit?usp=sharing
Foto credits til billederne som vi har modtaget fra Madeleine:
– GogG: Goodiepal & Pals, photo: Dagbladet Information
– MK: foto af Madeleine Kate McGowan, credits: Sarah Liisborg
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The future of activism depends on art, local ownership, and an entirely new language I am always thirsty at the falafel store I refuse to buy a bottle of water and they won’t give me tap water So I stood at the cash register with a zucchini in my hand, only me and you, it and I but I couldn’t feel it because it was wrapped in plastic green skin my skin I asked the boy Who are you protecting us from?
Excerpt from Tale of Downfall in a Collective Tone by Other Story and Goodiepal & Pals, read during a happening at the art gallery Kunsthal Chartlottenborg in Copenhagen, March 2018.
More than ever, there’s a need for popular movements in the political arena that can provide independent input for the energy and climate change debate in Denmark, including on the global, national, regional and local levels. We are living in a time when politicians are cutting back on frameworks and compromises, where political agreements within the areas of energy and the environment are being delayed, and where NGO’s and popular movements are fewer and less powerful than before.
In this newsletter, Professor Frede Hvelplund, former EU Commissioner for Climate Action and current Chair of the Danish green think-tank Concito, Connie Hedegaard, artist and student Madeleine Kate McGowan, and Associate Professor at the Danish Technical University, John Holten-Andersen, were asked about their thoughts, because they each in their own way are among those Danes who are trying to make Danish society aware of this matter.
When John Holten-Andersen wrote his column “Obituary: The Ministry of Environment has passed away” in the left-leaning Danish daily newspaper Information in March, he was overwhelmed by the reactions. “The article really created an uproar. People called and wrote to me. The seemed shocked and wanted to know more. Could things really be as bad as I described them?,” says John Holten-Andersen.
Apparently yes. John has been an active participant in the Danish environmental movement since the 1970’s, when he was a co-founder of NOAH – the strongest Danish climate, nature and environment NGO of its time. It played a significant role in swaying politicians in 1971 to create a Ministry of the Environment, which seriously put the environment on the political agenda.
Yet even though John and his colleagues celebrated the news back then, they also knew that they had created a double-edged sword: “We sensed that things would now be brought to an entirely different bureaucratic level. Totally different mechanisms would come into play that would be beyond our sphere of influence. However, I don’t think we ever imagined that the Ministry in the future would be suffocated so much that it would become a lever for the societal growth that we were so much against back then.”
That’s why he declared in his newspaper column that the Ministry was dead. The question is, who will create an alternative to take its place?
What can we do to once again reawaken civil society’s activism, and how do we create a future where citizens hold lawmakers accountable within the areas of energy and the environment?
John Holten-Andersen feels that the answers lie in one of his great passions: Language. “For years, the environmental movement has been much too technocratic, turning things into a question of lots of complicated technical and bureaucratic details which the broader public couldn’t relate to. The environment and climate change have become specialist domains where you have to know a lot of academic words and be able to calculate very abstract figures. It’s too far removed from what people otherwise feel and experience. That’s why we’re now in a situation where we don’t have the same popular support as we did 20-30 years ago. Instead, we have to revert to a more immediate language describing what we see, smell, feel and hear. Techno-language allows government employees to communicate all over the world, but it has also made the environmental movement incredibly fragmented. As soon as you meet people face-to-face in a specific local context, then the context becomes part of the conversation, because you can’t disregard the reality you sense around you. That’s why activism has to be inspired though the same local involvement that the environmental movement had in the beginning. These are specific tangible projects, for instance like we had on the island of Samsø with the Renewable Energy Island project. And it’s absolutely important to have support from the cultural sphere. Recreating activism is also recreating the entire artistic environment. In the 1970’s, musicians, writers and poets backed up the environmental movement, and we need them again. It’s the artists, those who work with language and make things poetic, who can awaken our feelings and once again create connections to nature so we want to fight for it,” explains John Holten-Andersen.
Listen here, leading country – this just isn’t working!
The fact that language is also about the appropriate historical tales is something that former EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard points to. Like John Holten-Andersen, she has noticed that it’s difficult to gain momentum in the press, and that the reality of digital media places new demands on those providing the message.
“In the old days, things that went wrong risked being splashed all over the media, but now there is so much media and so many platforms that it’s not the same impact. Today, the message has to be very precise and catchy to break through, and this is a reason why it’s difficult for activists to set the agenda. Many in the media think that climate change is something we’ve already heard about. Popular movements need to look at how they handle the media and find angles that can motivate readers and turn them into potential activists, giving them a positive vision. We have to say, “Hey, leading country, this just isn’t working, and now we’re going to show you an alternative!”
However, Connie Hedegaard doesn’t think that the crisis for activism lies in the fact that NGO’s have become too large, quite the opposite: “I think it’s important that activism can gain power through large organizations which provide a true counterbalance to those who are trying to limit efforts to fight climate change. NGO’s are under economic pressure due to fewer grants, while those who they’re fighting have increased their funding, and this is causing the climate change movement to lose momentum.”
A generational succession shouldn’t be a relay race
Another thing that can make difficult the rebirth of a new and more activist environmental movement is the generational succession we’re experiencing. Many of those who in the 1970’s helped bring the activist cultural to civilian society are of retirement age. So how does it look in terms of the activist spirit among younger people?
“At NOAH, we have a very active youth group who have brought involvement to an entirely new level. They make sure that new young members are re-educated about the forest, learning how to light a campfire and sleep under the open sky. As they say: We need to know about nature if we’re going to fight for it. Many young people today have never lit a campfire or caught a fish,” says John Holten-Andersen, who is excited about a new fighting spirit that he hasn’t seen for at least ten years: “I actually agree that there are many good things happening in terms of activism. You just never hear about them in the media. Instead, social media platforms have become important tools that young people use to spread their messages, and unfortunately my generation hasn’t really caught on. We are like custodians, patting them on the shoulders and passing on down our experiences.”
Frede Hvelplund is a professor at Aalborg University’s Department of Planning. As an energy, environmental and climate change researcher, his main task is to provide information that civil society can use. He thinks the climate crisis is so serious that we need to involve everyone:
“Fighting climate change is not a relay race where you hand off the baton to the younger generation. The problem is so great that all generations have to do something about it, because there is a need for young people, and for those with years of experience. We need intergenerational cooperation, because there isn’t time for each generation to reinvent the wheel.”
Connie Hedegaard also senses a new tune: “There’s an increasing dissatisfaction that the green agenda doesn’t take up much room in the public debate. This is the seed to once again mobilize people, because there is a paradigm shift on the way, including with young people who are creating campaigns against food waste, are joining the sharing economy, and are asking their educational institutions why the curriculum doesn’t include alternative economic models.”
When opting out from the sin of climate change becomes an esthetic expression
On March 23, 2018, Madeleine Kate McGowan walked onto the stage at the art gallery Kunsthal Chartlottenborg in Copenhagen and read the poem “Tale of Downfall in a Collective Tone.” It was during the film festival CPH:DOX, and she wasn’t alone: Madeleine Kate was surrounded by the artistic community Goodiepal & Pals as well as by colleagues from the film project Other Story, which was also shown at the film festival. During the reading, they all mingled with the audience, interacting with them. In the weeks leading up to the happening, they worked on the story by logging into the text from around the world and writing about angst, anger, and frustration with the situation of climate change and of refugees that are leaving marks on their daily lives:
“The group working with Other Story was created for inspiration, and because the media doesn’t live up to its purpose of constructively telling about the world we live in. Instead, they just present opposite opinions, thereby creating conflict. Other Story is organized in groups that travel around the world. Which is why when we’re planning a happening, we get-together online, writing directly in a Google document that we read aloud when we meet at the happening,” explains Madeleine Kate.
She studies Art History, IT Design, and is writing a thesis about climate change narratives. Yet Madeleine Kate is also a good example of the artistic involvement that John Holten-Andersen is calling for, and the different ways some young people choose to organize their activism today:
“We know that we are all hypocrites – no one can live a ‘pure’ life in terms of climate change, so we need to show our vulnerability by doing performances and actions in a way that creates empathy, involvement, and respect. We are artistically investigating the expression of limits, because what happens when you don’t fly but take the train around the world, when you don’t eat meat, or when you are giving a reading but have to leave early because you don’t drive a car and have to take the bus home? There is an interesting potential that happens with spatial things when you can’t follow your desires anymore. In that way you change the uncomfortable renunciation of climate change sins to something positive,” concludes Madeleine Kate.
Links:
John Holten-Andersen’s newspaper column:
https://www.information.dk/debat/2018/03/nekrolog-miljoeministeriet-afgaaet-ved-doeden-doedsaarsag-kvaelning
Frede Hvelplund:
http://vbn.aau.dk/en/projects/mobgis–mobilizing-grassroots-capacities-for-sustainable-energy-transitions(5b813691-bc29-4500-882a-509a1a9c1b01).html
Connie Hedegaard:
https://concito.dk/klimaambassaden
Other Story – the entire Tale of Downfall from the happening at the art gallery Kunsthal Chartlottenborg:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1owue53QQoZgbayTxNpLBo3raSueF9TeF4en3AdKA7uc/edit?usp=sharing
Photo credits:
- Goodiepal & Pals, photo: Dagbladet Information
- Photo of Madeleine Kate McGowan, credits: Sarah Liisborg
- Photos from Other Storys vwork, taken from their homepage
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