In July 2011, the white bear went to Glasgow, Scotland to study the free market, (that was invented here in 1776), and it’s claim that cool impersonal money could overcome the problems with the bestial subjectivity within humans. While in Scotland, it filmed it’s experiences and is now making a kind of video diary about them. In this post in it’s diary you can see how the white bear ponders, by the famous Loch Ness, that the cool objective calculations that humanity have strived for for centuries, may actually be the very thing that makes the monster below the surface possible.

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Posted By Ulla Hvejsel and the white bear; artists in residence in CCA Creative Lab – July 2011

In July 2011, a white bear; a beast from the back of the mind, was in residence in CCA’s Creative Lab. In Glasgow, it wanted to study the history and the beastly aspects of the free market, a market tat was apparently invented here in 1776. At the moment the bear is editing a videodiary from this journey, and as it works it’s way through the it’s summer experiences in Glasgow, it will post it’s reflections here. This is the second post from it’s diary, and it is about misunderstandings and not being able to get your idea across the way you intendend it. A problem that the Glaswegian free market pioneer Adam Smith, must have known all too well.

Misunderstandings 1776-2011

by Ulla Hvejsel and The White Bear – artists in residence in the creative lab, July 2011