Sven is a student of existence, whatever that means. He has found that
understanding Universe, Nature, Bach, Chagall, Shakespeare, wilderness, wild flowers, venison, fireworks, film and artistic dance are peak life experiences.
Born in Sweden he came here via the Arctic. In Sweden's Arctic he developed understanding of domesticated reindeer. Immigrating 1962 to Canada he was given a 5-year contract by Canadian Government to reorganize the Canadian Reindeer Industry. During that work, he made the film “Reindeer”. When working in dance he has made 5 dance films for Bravo FACT TV.
Sven has a multi-faced life. Wilderness living and reindeer is just the beginning. In ocean navigation he has sailed the North West Passage and reconstructed "North Star of Herschel Island" from an Arctic supply ship to a 3-masted full rigged clipper ship. He has “first hand” studied The Sami, The Inuit, The Canadian Indians and the human situation in total. He has never driven a car - but flown his own aircraft and can drive dog-teams. He is also one of the very few men that can state: "The rumours of my death were an exaggeration." In every field of activity he goes to full extent - never only to “half measures”.
Today Sven is Artistic Director/Choreographer of Discovery Dance, Victoria, BC which he formed after successfully creating ES Dance 1986– an internationally unique new style and technique. ES Dance also includes “Dance for Disabled” in new styles and techniques. He is writing - among other books; his biography and a book defining art; its origin, what it is and how it functions on the human mind.
Member of The Order of Canada 1994 and awarded Queen’s Gold Medal 2002 - Queens Diamond Medal 2012.
Art and life as part of the universe.
Superfecundity. Habitat for each specie. Foodchain for each specie.
Semmelweis reflex”.
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A comment on Conversation: Is war inevitable? Is it a natural state of human affairs or an aberration, absent from our distant past and perhaps, our future as well?
Everywhere human have lived – in a micro-world – Vikings on Greenland, people on Easter Island etc – the base for life is always over-used all to destruction mainly for stupid status symbols – like Moai, castles, cathedrals and Pyramids. 300 years ago – the same destruction was imminent in Europe because land for food production was all used to capacity at the state of agriculture society as of then.
Then exploration begun – opening up Americas, Australia and New Zeeland where the European overpopulation could move to avoid starvation. Europe turned industrial making tools needed for the immigrants. Now that period is past and all bankrupt. Americas and the whole world are now over-using and adding pollution to nature toward destruction in the name of “economics” simply meaning more money – disregarding that “being economic” actually mean “to use wisely – to preserve”. The fact is that any politician standing for “preserving nature” would be thrown out of office next day! Land – water and air pollution are destructive worldwide with CO2 as extra bonus. We know that melting out glaciers - now on way - will drown whole island countries - by raising ocean level. One month of 50 C in populated US and Canada - would take out every electric grid that can be constructed – then add the utter stupidity of the re-occurring “bubble financing” - not for high quality life - but status junk - and there is no hope. I will discontinue my time on TED – there is no hope for wisdom – only want.
A reply on Conversation: Is war inevitable? Is it a natural state of human affairs or an aberration, absent from our distant past and perhaps, our future as well?
A comment on Conversation: Is war inevitable? Is it a natural state of human affairs or an aberration, absent from our distant past and perhaps, our future as well?
War killings peaked in 2 world wars because of enormous number of soldiers and enormous size of battlefields. Today war combat is in limited areas, mechanized and with low number of soldiers. As result - war is now very ineffective and last double or triple times without closure one way or another. And - sadly - we cannot even stop bullying within families – bullying in schools - at work – within nations and between nations. We must realize that the human specie is programmed highly ego-centric; anybody and anything – incl. nature - “be damned” - to the bitter end. The only solution would be effective international law - valid inside every nation – and international police force and justice - powerful enough to enforce and deter against violations - worldwide. Killing 9,000 in Syria – or throwing acid in the face of a woman - is international crime against humanity – and so is the hysterical greed for materialistic status-junk now destroying the suitability for life on our planet Earth.
CO2 on Earth was made low enough - for high forms of life - by being absorbed in primitive forms of life that now is out of circulation in oil and coal. Burning fossil fuel release CO2 as greenhouse gas that will increase Earth’s temperature toward that of - Venus 450C. "Drill Baby Drill" and we end up as on Venus - all life scorched to death. Is that what our greed are going to give our children and future generations? Homo Sapient? Sapience? Even a grand of wisdom in humans - we would learn from 3 disasters of overuse of limited resourses: Vikings on Greenland, Polynesians on Easter Island and Mutineers on Pitcarn Island. In those examples the means for live were used up in short time. We have now reached total limits of our planet - food, water and air - with increasing CO2 - the bitter end.