Rolling dice

Buying blood diamonds and altering global capitalism. Mads Brügger as unruly artivist in The Ambassador

“…''This is a bit like saying that Liberia was in 18 times worse financial trouble than the average country on the verge of bankruptcy.'' 12 This obviously entails that Liberia is a state struggling to recover, but as becomes evident in The Ambassador, the recovery process is problematised further by a deeply corrupt political system. The mere appointment of Brü gger indicates that Liberia does not have the international political representation that normally follows diplomatic assignments.…”