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Design or Destroy Are we born to design or to destroy? video 5.00min 2013 We see "the critic" seated in the grass in a garden on a summer day. He is pondering about questions of nature, animals and landscape. He creates a theory that tries to explain how the human being was born to design his environment and even his life. Furthermore he speculates wether it`s right to breed i.e monster like hormone beef. He wonders if and how crazy we really are.

Biography NINA LASSILA born in Helsinki Finland 1974, lives and works currently in Gothenburg SE and Belgium. Nina Lassila is a visual artist working mainly with video and performance. In many of her works she deals with questions of identity ? specifically identity affected by social barriers, conventions based on gender and upbringing and cultural differences. Her other bodies of work explore issues of i.e supernatural phenomena, art and economic structures. For more information see www.ninalassila.com Education: Swedish Polytechnics FIN 1994-1997, School of Photography & film Gothenburg SE 2000-2002, Valand School of Fine Arts (MFA) 2004-2006, Guest at ENSAD Paris 2009.