Project 7,000,000,000
Project 7,000,000,000 refers to the estimated number of people in the world and is based on the idea of sustainable development, in reference to a UN report published with the meaningful title Our Shared Future. The project deals with sustainable development in economic, social, and environmental terms as a matter of great complexity that involves the entire population of the world, both individually and collectively.
Power's dominion over people reaches all areas of human expression, and at the same time generates points of resistance that develop in parallel to the life of those 7 billion inhabitants of the planet, part of the broad space of production in the contemporary era. It is within that same space that the possibility of uprising is produced.
Each day it becomes more and more evident that the current system will not be able to evolve positively in response to either local or global demands. This is why alternative models of development need to be posited, which will need to be more sustainable and based by necessity on a broader understanding of human activity.
Curators David Arlandis and Javier Marroquí congregated several artists to analyze and discuss, from the standpoint of their personal practice, the issue of the perversion of artistic expression in sustainable development. The results of the project are presented in the Espai d'art contemporani de Castelló (Castellón Contemporary Art Space) from January 31st though April 27th, 2014.
Among the artists featured in the project are Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová, Basurama, Carlos Motta, Daniela Ortiz and José Quiroga, Johan Grimonprez, Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, Juan José Martín Andrés, Núria Güell, Tue Greenfort, Regina José Galindo, Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg, The Otolith Group, and Ursula Biemann.
