Ninetta Czank: go ahead or back

Concerning my project is about a map -which based on partly zoo maps, different outlines of island, countries and partly fictitious- correlating new aspects of zoo, animal welfare. Selection of objects and prints are situated on a blue backed printed paper base, pointing at the poster nature as an informing ad.Summarizing in this project was used some previous works too.

The title is „go ahead or back”, refers to board game to improve your skills in connection with enviromental issues, call for a play in the fair „live and let live” concept.

The installation is based on two kind of conception; it was about animals protection in self-conscious and unconscious way.

Pig population on the Big Major Cay; rabbit population on the Okunoshima Island are represented the anthropocentric attitude to nature with coincidentally positive results. Okunoshima, a short ferry ride from the mainland, an island where Japan produced poison gas during the second world war, is now a haven for friendly rabbits and a popular tourist resort with a small golf course, camping grounds and beautiful beaches. Between 1929-1945, the Japanese army secretly produced over 6,000 tons of poison gas on Okunoshima, which was removed from maps of the area and chosen because of its discreet location and distance from civilian populations. At the time, an unfortunate colony of rabbits was brought to the island in order to test the effects of the poison.

a northern bottlenose whale figure in an used plastic chocolate box refers to grindadráp in the Faroe Islands along with the general critique, as longing for preserve against the traditional amusement.

Christmas Island is well known for its biological diversity. The annual breeding migration of the red crabs is a popular event. Local park rangers work hard to ensure that the crabs can safely cross the island to the coast, set up aluminum barriers called "crab fences" along heavily traveled roads.The crab fences funnel the crabs towards small underpasses called "crab grids" so that the crabs can safely cross under the roads. In recent years, the human inhabitants of Christmas Island have become more tolerant and respectful of the crabs during their annual migration and are now more cautious while driving, which helps to minimise crab casualties.Further, "a five-metre-high bridge has also been constructed at one point along the road to help the crabs move across the island and continue their migration.

the relation between pet and human

BRUSSELS (17 Oct. 2012) - MEPs from across the political spectrum and five leading animal welfare organisations joined forces at a European Parliament event to call for an EU legislative ban on forcefeeding of ducks and geese for the production of foie gras. The call for a ban comes at the same time as a formal complaint filed by the animal groups against France and Hungary – the world’s first and third largest foie gras producers respectively - for failing to comply with current EU regulations on the protection of animals. There's a huge weight of opinion against the barbaric way foie gras is produced, which sees geese and ducks force-fed until their livers swell to up to 10 times their normal size. Furthermore by that work will be also continued to fight againts it as a duck with corn-pistol.