Vanuatu .
Vanuatu . Vanuatu was meant to be the opposite of Nauru.
in Vanuatu and some were British. Vanuatu is a former British colony; so in Nauru well, Nauru is an Australian protectorate now to an extent.
the Vanuatuans zeroes and ones, you know? I think we operate somewhere in the gap between those two economies.
Actually got to island Vanuatu by 40,000 years ago.
this idea of Vanuatu and not only looking at Vanuatu as a specific geographic place but as an idea.
are guiding the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation and the Tanna Center for the Arts.
it's set in Vanuatu and it's actually set in Tanna as well.
conversation would feel like Vanuatu , Nauru, economics, happiness, crazy New York, you know?
that they rated Vanuatu through the Happy Planet Index and they were ripping on this from the Tanna point of view here because I'm fascinated with this
You know with Vanuatu one of the things that makes me chuckle over the fact that you have this idea of nonlinearity, nonsense of structured time so we're going
relationship to what we at the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation like to call "traditional ecological knowledge" .
New Economic forum or foundation and Vanuatu has been consistently, over the last several years, although it's not this year because they had a whole recreatement
Tanna Center for the Arts and the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation precisely because we view this idea of collaboration and sharing as a basic principle of the foundation.
It's a tiny island further north then Vanuatu and in the early 90's as the Soviet Union was collapsing, a group of Russian bankers in what they now
that I was thinking about when I arrived in Vanuatu .
One of my first meetings when I got back to Vanuatu this year was we had a meeting with some of the chiefs in this one area near the center and I pulled out my cellphone and started
to understand through the prism of art and that's where I think the Vanuatu Project is really going to be all about this idea of carbon negative structures,
So behind me you have a typical example of architecture from the Vanuatu region.
and you can't, it's the URL for the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation.
your cell phone up to them, they'll take you to the Vanuatu Pacifica site, they'll take you to the YouTube clips and video channel, and above all they're
We have Janna Olson here who is the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation Executive Director and Cultural and Operational Liaison to the Tanna Center
So in Vanuatu what I noticed is that a lot of the issues are around trade and commerce just for goods that people all have.
In this show here at Google, Paul presents an installation of works inspired by his vision for the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation; an endless initiative he's asking "Can 21st century technology
I mean in fact that's one of the issues that was an inspiration for the Vanuatu project, this idea of free time.
So at the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation, what
So what I want to do is walk you through some of things that drove me to Vanuatu or took me to
And right now in fact, because of the Iraq war and I'm going to get back on topic in a second about Vanuatu
So Nauru versus Vanuatu ;
Let's got to Vanuatu and see
It in fact has members in Parliament in Vanuatu and the other cults, these are cults in the same way the early
Vanuatu and Tanna specifically
Now, Vanuatu , whenever you think about this idea of the native, remember I
And I noticed that people, even to this day, the last time I went back to Vanuatu I heard some of the mixed I had
The Tanna Center for the Arts and the Vanuatu
So the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation is looking at different forms of
So above all, say for example, I'm going to just wrap up with moving from Vanuatu and Tanna
It means love is received rather than the usual Western model of just rapacity and taking everything so from Nauru to Vanuatu hopefully
if you're around and if this is one event that you might enjoy, and we have the mailing list for the Vanuatu Group through DJ Spooky.com.
These are, she was saying she'd read the Wikipedia entry on Vanuatu which is exactly eerily precise. Whoever did the crowd sourcing of the wiki for Vanuatu
So Vanuatu