Any comments on the landmine activities??

There was also place for self-reflection and thoughts, some of them were:

• it's sporty!
• great concept
• maybe should be more simulations like dayly situations
• still too many injured in 2009
• impresive numbers
• Interesting to feel what they feel, but a bit not to cool to laught and play about it. If we would had anybody without a leg there, nobody would jump arround with 1 leg. But great learning.
  

How did you feel while handicaped?

We also had a poster with different feelings that the people had to mark, the results where:
4 confused, 12 helpless, 5 angry, 8 lost patience, 8 amused, 7 annoyed, 12 dependent on the others, 6 sorry (for myself/others) and 4 touched. It is not clear for me at the moment of writting this tag if there was a limit on x that one could draw, but I supposed one could cross as much as they filled. There was also important space to add some feelings that someone thought were missing. Those feelings were: 4 passive, 5 vulnerable, 2 lucky and 1 frustrated.

Where was the people injured?

We were arround 64 people involved, but not all of them where injured. The ones who get no injure had to pay the price of helping the ones affected. There were 4 Eye injuries, 1 face, 4 hand injuries, 1 whole arm, 4 arms under the elbow, 13 whole legs and 8 down the knee. The injures where sometimes combined and should come with a proportional frequence of the real world injuries, depending on the official statistics. (here I'll put foto of the poster and real statitstics)

First meeting together in Kostelecke Horky

We had a meeting to decide what we finally needed for the action on Tuesday 9 of June. The action took place on Wednesday lunch. We show first the instruction papers, and draw some corresponding stikers for the injuries to be visible. There were also the information papers for the tables, with the instructions on how to act during the activity. We checked out the informative pannels and added a couple of definitions that were important. There was also place to develope a reflexive area about which injured the people had and its feelings.

We also had a cute but handicaped pig for collecting money to landmine.de organization.

Mines & coffe to go

Some hints about how to prepare a performance about landmines. I was wandering arround, thinking if we should do some cardboard boxes, simulating the landmines where we would put inside the injuries paper for our performance, when I thought of an old problem that really makes me angry in this "use it and throw it" society where we live. This is the bakers and "coffee to go" shops, where you always get your buns and muffins, without asking if you are just about to eat them, wrapped up in paperbags and your coffee in one go cans covered with plastic taps, again without asking if you are about to drink it. So I thought, they could just have this final use in our performance. We the doubble aim of make us aware how many of this rubish we see in the street and to be used as the mines itselfs. But remember, use just the already used covers, cause there is no need to waste more than they are already wasted. Besides, we want to be friendly with the enviroment.

And about how to do the action, you could put many of this covers on the floor, take one person with its eyes covered and let him wander arround till it treats one of the "mines". Then with a bomb sound that you can obtain pressing a key on your preprogrammed computer, and some split of water, you could let this people know what would be its injure for the rest of the performance. Maybe that can be done in some Improtheater performance, before the show starts.

GEA: 100 Landmines in Dublin, Ireland

In April 2007, -Will st. Leger from the woodster colective group, a group of artists with concern purposes on their performance, decided to distribute 100 fake landmines in Dubliner's places. Their aim was in their own words:

"The reason for doing this was to get people asking themselves "what if the world I walked in was littered with landmines?"

Anti-person landmine detection

When it comes to the end of war, who takes care of the rests? Since there is a massive use of landmines, almost since 50 years, there has been also a parallel developement on methods of how to detect them.

In most of the first detector cases, it was animals who keept the worst part of the job, such as dogs or rats, making it as usually a feeling of total careless for other living beeings in our planet's life. Governments make the problem and who cares about a rat more or less??

Other methods are trained mongoose animals atached to some robot, or metal detectors, but it stills in need of someone to bagger, with a huge potential harming risiko.
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So there are some robots not just for detecting but also for exploding mines and some modified bacterias which can detect explosives,. One type of bacteria uses fotoluminescence and the other needs the TNT for its methabolic porpuses. Nevertheless this methods are really expensive and no method ist without failure and we surely hat to thing twice about modifying a bacteria species and letting it free in the enviroment, because of the evolutive process.