MTALKS - Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten on countryside

Hmm So the sacred Uluru rock of indigenous Australians is a cliche. People need to be more sensitive. To understand the Australian countryside you need to understand the many tribes that inhabit it, their many languages. Their isolation is what has helped a civilization that is arguably one of the oldest in the world to survive for more than 60,000 years. It is vital that it stays that way. In a desperate attempt to shift focus from an imploding Netherlands, trying to encroach on land elsewhere by Comparing two highly differing and complex contexts based on tangible statistical evidence seems fairly naive. He says there are no cows left in the Dutch countryside, it shouldn't come as a surprise if there won't be any of the 'Aboriginals' left on their land.

He's a dumb privilege white man- koolhaus

europeans, they just can’t stop profiting from other peoples’ true authenticity. some years ago REM did some ‘research’ in lagos, nigeria. in true colonial tradition, collecting snap shots of ‘culture’ converted into data as content for OMA/AMO Harvard books, precisely replicating the 18th century collection of butterflies from the same part of the world, categorising them in the european obsession with taxonomy, hierarchical order and domestication, and pinning them up in glass display cabinets for the walls of their museums, exotisisising the alienated and displaced like they also did with saartjie baartman.