At 11 pm the 11th of July a colored lamp will switch on
in the tower of the former workers house. The lamp will
burn until the cobalt based lithium-ion battery is
empty.
A text is pasted on a power box in Helsinki. 1,5 km from
the box a timer with a blue lamp is placed in the tower of
the former workers house, set to go on at 11 pm, the same
time as the Red Bolsheviks climbed the tower to place a red
lamp the 26th of January in 1918. This was a symbolic
signal to the white and started the civil war in Finland.
42 years later a civil war broke out in D.R. Congo after
it's independence; a country that holds 40-50% of the
cobalt in the world. Finland has it's own moderate
resources of Cobalt as-well.
Cobalt is used in small batterys and for the deep blue tone
in cobalt colored glass.
