Land Distribution
  
Land Distribution , installation in Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2010

In the beginning of the nineties we witnessed how after the failure of the idea of common property in the socialist East the cooperatives land was given back to the original owners. It was done in the name of restoring the legal rights of the owners from whom in the 50es the reform confiscated the land. Back then the reformists of those times were also trying to do a redistribution of the land and give a chance to the poor people by transforming a whole society and forcing them to learn about sharing things in common. Now here, in the postsocialist East, in the recent years we witness again a processus of redistribution in which this time the banks and other private corporations are speculating and taking the land by using loans and credits from a lot of people. Land and land distribution means currency, reform or poverty, depending on geographical, historical or socio-political conditions. Nowadays in Venezuela the land is redistributed to poorer people in order to give them a chance to start their own small self sufficient farms. They use analog VHS tape to fence the land and to create smaller random units meant to host families. They make use of a product of our consumerist society in an archaic way in order to produce a new situation, they are struggling for their future.





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