WETWARE SOLUTIONS

11/01/2024

South African lawyers said during the opening arguments that the latest Gaza war is part of a decadeslong oppression of the Palestinians by Israel.

“Genocides are never declared in advance, but this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies as a plausible claim of genocidal acts,” South African lawyer Adila Hassim told the judges and audience in the packed, ornate room of the Peace Palace in The Hague.

And South Africa insisted Israel committed genocide by design.

“The scale of destruction in Gaza, the targeting of family homes and civilians, the war being a war on children, all make clear that genocidal intent is both understood and has been put into practice. The articulated intent is the destruction of Palestinian life,” said lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi.

“What state would admit to a genocidal intent? Yet the distinctive feature of this case has not been the silence as such, but the reiteration and repetition of genocidal speech throughout every sphere of the state in Israel,” he said.

The United Nations’ top court is opening hearings into South Africa’s allegation that Israel’s war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians.

15/08/2023

02/10/2022

Singing Restraint 1___performance with Sybil Montet at Nasjonalmuseet 24.06.22

17/01/2022

We will be joined by Sybil Montet and her incredible visuals for this very special performance 🦎🔮

Wetware Solutions Hvordan høres jordas økologiske kollaps ut? Wetware Solutions er et kunstprosjekt som kommer med et svar på dette gjennom sin musikk som kan fungere som en soundtrack til smeltende isbreer og brennende skoger. Prosjektet spiller på forholdet mellom økologi og teknologi, og ill...

03/11/2021

A recent study in the scientific journal Nature suggests that to stand a 50% chance of avoiding more than 1.5C of global heating, we need to retire 89% of proven coal reserves, 58% of oil reserves and 59% of fossil methane (“natural gas”) reserves. If we want better odds than 50-50, we’ll need to leave almost all of them untouched.

(...) Since the Paris agreement in 2015, the world’s 60 largest banks have poured $3.8tn into fossil fuel companies. People in rich nations seek to blame climate breakdown on India and China, which continue to develop new coal plants. But an estimated 40% of the “committed emissions” for the Asian coal plants sampled by researchers can be attributed to banks and investors in Europe and the US. Even if guilt were to be apportioned by nationality – a preposterous notion in a world where money moves freely and power is wielded across borders – we could not detach ourselves from these decisions.

There’s scarcely a fossil fuel project on Earth that has not been facilitated by public money. In 2020, according to the International Monetary Fund, governments spent $450bn in direct subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The IMF accounts the other costs the industry imposes on us – pollution, destruction and climate chaos – at $5.5tn. But I find such figures meaningless: dollars can’t capture the loss of human life and the trashing of ecosystems, let alone the prospect of systemic environmental collapse. One in five of all deaths, according to a recent estimate, are now caused by fossil fuel pollution.

(...) We have the technology required to replace fossil fuels. There’s plenty of money, which is currently being squandered on the destruction of life on Earth. The transition could take place in months, if governments willed it. The only thing that stands in the way is the power of legacy industries and the people who profit from them. This is what needs to be overthrown. The handwaving, the complexity, the grandiloquent distraction in Glasgow are designed above all for one purpose: not to accelerate this transition, but to thwart it.

The handwaving and complexity obscure a simple truth: nation states must stop funding dirty industries, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

23/07/2021

Heimdal Kunstforening June 19, 2021

Visuals: Mina Paasche

Photo: Susann Jamtøy

19/04/2021

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track by WETWARE SOLUTIONS

16/04/2021

A NEW MYCOLOGY: LETHAL ALGAE BLOOMS (PASTORAL RETURN)

New 10-minute work 🕊🧬🦎 https://wetwaresolutions.bandcamp.com/track/a-new-mycology-lethal-algae-blooms-pastoral-return