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Bug in the System

Bug in the System invites viewers to reflect on their role in the rise of invasive species and epidemics.

I felt enormous resistance to an assignment to do something with bamboo. To get out of my bad mood I decided to walk around the block. I passed gardens with bamboo plants. In the pots with bamboo plants from Southeast Asia for these Dutch gardens sometimes a few larvae of the tiger mosquito are hidden. The bite of a tiger mosquito can transmit diseases such as malaria, dengue and zika. And because I had malaria thirteen times in West Africa via the tiger mosquito, an innocent assignment with bamboo evokes aversion. The origin of the insult Mosquito for Haarlem residents may lie in the mosquito plagues that plagued the city. The area was surrounded by peat and swamp, in which mosquitoes and also malaria thrived. Who invites these mosquitoes to come back?

Technical image editing - Menno Sabel

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