_Extreme Green Guerrillas_

2007

Objectives:
I would like to give a critical point of view on the current general green visions, because many green activities are used as a medium of consumerism. Even though climate disaster might be happening, I dont want people to panic and just follow what they are told to do.
By illustrating an extreme green scenario through E.G.G. manual book, I would like people to think of the core problems and debate about it. My point is not to say that this is the solution nor the future. My role is more to provoke with intriguiging artworks, have people question their lifestyle and get the debate on green issues going.

Basic concept:
We are forced to face the reality on a daily basis that environmental damage is more advanced than experts predicted. As global warming becomes the top of almost every government’s agenda, recent trends have put pressure on world leaders to act immediately: for instance, forced recycling, carbon offsetting and a 10-year campaign to make environmentally friendly living fashionable.
Are these efforts really improving the environment? Are these activities saving the Earth? What is eco-friendly living? When we live in a period where the worst climate disaster is about to happen, how can we live the ultimate green lifestyle?

Extreme Green Guerrillas:
My project takes current green trends to the extreme. I am proposing a community of people called “Extreme Green Guerillas” (E.G.G.).
They are a network of amateur self-sustaining people who have shortened their lifespan to sustain the ultimate green lifestyle. Whilst going to extreme lengths to protect the environment, they try to enjoy a decadent quality of life by utilizing urban waste and biosystem. This consists of embracing emerging technology to develop the ultimate green solution.

Part1. Extreme Green Guerrillas communication:
Extreme green guerrillas are against using the Internet or mobile phones for communication, as this method will tie them to big corporation.
E.G.G. are also against conventional posting service, as it leaves a great CO2 footprint.

Animal Messaging Service
E.G.G. send messages internationally by hacking into the animal migration system. In natural sanctuaries environmental protection agencies tag migrating animals with active RFID tags. E.G.G.s hack into these tagged animals to send digital messages internationally.

This map shows world animal migration routes:

Here is the examples of messaging vehicles. This is the fish,

And the whale for the extra large memory.

This map shows animal messaging service for the U.K. customers.

This is how the whooper swans bring messages from London to New York.

As well as internationally, Extreme Green Guerrillas have local messaging service by using their pets and visitor animals.

This is the daily patrol route of boss cat called KUROINO.

As Extreme green guerrillas feel superior to consuming human, they hack into these people to send digital messages.

Part2. Extreme Green Guerrillas Food
Do you buy only organic products? Free range eggs to support happy chickens? Somehow modern society has mistaken being healthy with green activity. Although individuals can be healthy by eating good food, this activity doesn’t necessarily mean the Earth is healthy. If you are an extreme green person, what do you eat?

Extreme Green Guerrillas delicacy
Extreme green guerrilla’s food has to be resourced from existing materials within the local area. By modifying the urban vermin, such as pigeons and rats, extreme green guerrillas have created more edible and gourmet like delicacy. One example is an animal called Piguail, which is hybrid of Pigeon (vermin) and Quail (gourmet).

Extreme Green Guerrillas deicacy #1: Piguail : Hybrid animal of Pigeon (vermin) and Quail (gourmet meat)

Extreme Green Guerrillas deicacy #2: Rattit : Hybrid animal of Rat(vermin) and Rabbit (gourmet meat)

Part3. Extreme Green Guerrillas death
The Earth is too crowded for sustainability, therefore premature death is the ultimate gesture practiced by the extreme green guerrilla. What would be the ritual they would practice?
When a member of Extreme green guerrilla becomes twenty years old, his/her ears are pierced with a euthanasing earring, this contains muscle relaxant and a lethal drug. This is a part of the ceremony E.G.G.s celebrate when this person reaches adulthood. This pierced earring becomes a permanent fixture.
Throughout their life the inner core of the earring rotates day by day. On their fortieth birthday, the muscle relaxant and lethal drug are released through a hypodermic needle, leading to peaceful death. By promoting a young death, extreme green guerrillas can sustain the ultimate green life. If you know your life will last only forty years, how would you plan your life?