21st Faith

Ella:
Rebecca:
Thank you so much for performing that. Rebecca is the
curator of 21st Faith.
Hi. So the idea for today was to have a conversation and
bounce ideas with each other, as this was a project where
everyone did personal research on the aspect of Faith, and
what it meant to them. The goal [today] is to see what
connects, what doesn’t connect, what are the limits,
what are the possibilities… So, don’t hesitate, please,
I want to hear everyone saying one sentence.
It would make me very happy.
[ambient noise]
[Ella introduces artist Iara Monaco]
Iara:
So, when Rebecca first started talking about this project
she told me her initial inspiration which was how Faith
used to be a uniting form in a community, it was what
gathered people together and helped make improvements
in the community. That didn’t resonate with me until I went
to Bangladesh, for three months, and volunteered there.
We had to go to these different communities and we went
[and asked] them what challenges do you face, what can
be improved in your community and always asked what’s
the best thing about your community. They would all say
the best thing about our community is unity. They lived in
a collectivist society, where you wouldn’t see a homeless
person in the street, because there would always be
somebody to bring you in, and give you a home, take care
of you, and make you feel part of a family. So that made me
wonder, what can unite us as a whole? How can we combat
things like climate change when there are still climate
change deniers? How can we combat poverty when there
are people who profit from it? So then, I found out about
the Sustainable Development Goals which is this really big
fancy word for something extremely simple: there are
17 goals that the United Nations, a hundred and something
countries, come together to discuss: ok so what 17 goals
do we need, as a whole, the whole world, every country,
to make the world better? To create a sustainable future
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