1000 White Flags

1000 White Flags

A protest against the development of Finland's Koli National Park as a cross-country ski resort. In the summer of 2000, after collecting unwanted sheets from psychiatric hospitals around the country Casagrande & Rintala made 1000 white flags to punctuate the verdant landscape of one ski-slope as a gesture of surrender to insanity. [ [http://www.smalltownnetworks.com/docs%5CConference%20reports%5CHighland%20April%202006%5Cenvironmental%20art.pdf] - "Small Town Networks Conference: The Presentation of Environment(al) Art in the Town of Lieksa" Contemporary -Apr 2006 ] The anarchic environmental art work won the first price of the national landscape art competition Settlement [ [http://architettura.supereva.com/architetture/20011101/index.htm] - "Nathalie Pozzi: Casagrande & Rintala" - ARCH'IT Nov 2001 it ] and launched the natural restoration process of the national park's ancient forests. [ [http://www.kuntalehti.fi/download/default.asp?f=76685&m=15946&a=27030&c=3208&x=0 ] - "Anna-Mari Tyyrilä: Kolin kulttuuriprojekti nousee" - Kuntalehti 3/2001 fi ]


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