Come Back to the Circle

Nonprofit creative agency NATV - Jesse van ‘t Hull

In Western societies, we keep wanting more. This desire is not new: for hundreds of years, European countries have been colonising areas all over the world. Where they said they would bring civilisation, they brought destruction.

Even today, Western man continues to feel the need to expand his territory. Indigenous peoples continue to be driven from their land so that big business can do as it pleases. More than just human lives are lost in the process. The 6,000 different indigenous cultures currently living on our planet make up only 5% of the world's total population, but collectively they are responsible for 80% of biodiversity. The knowledge of these indigenous peoples is essential for the survival of mankind, as the United Nations also states. Indigenous perspectives offer an alternative to the need for more, bigger and better and the destruction that comes with it.

Man is not above or outside nature, but is part of it, as the indigenous perspectives in NATV's Come Back to the Circle show. Not competition but connection brings progress. In this video installation, we are invited to take our place in the circle of which we are all a part.