A Place in the Sun


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Ira Hadzic & Almir Mustafic
Ira Hadzic & Almir Mustafic
Tsuyoshi Kanda
4 min.
2008
"More must be done to prevent the importation of hazardous toys and other products from China. (...) Their businesses will suffer if they don't meet safety standards."

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2007


"We desire to throw no one into the shadow but we also demand our place in the sun."

Prince Bernhard von Buelow, 1849 -1929


A military expedition has been sent to colonize a beach by the sea and thus to claim a "place in the sun". Just when they are about to start taking over the territory an indigenous appears: Captain James Hook.
However, both sides have got one thing in common: They all have been "Made in China".
A struggle begins.

Today, over 100 years after Buelow's statement, the notion of colonization has changed its suit: in addition to profiting from the material and human resources the colonies have provided it has started to be concerned for the "freedom of safety", which includes traveling, terror and toys.