Anton Lustig  
Anton Lustig
Anton Lustig is a born Dutch, but, doing everything on his own way, he spent almost half of his life far from the Netherlands, either in the Chinese capital Beijing or with the Jingpo ethnicity, in a remote border area between China and Burma. Lustig is a passionate composer and painter, and he likes to combine various things in art and media. His hybrid of sound and painting is the most notable so far, clearly affected by the native and free world he lives in.

Anton first came in contact with the Jingpo as a result of his unusual and fully independent academic field: the first linguistic description of their Zaiwa language, and soon fell in love with the Jingpo people and their culture. The resulting PhD thesis and books, which made him specialist on this language, were much written in his own style, avoiding jargon and filled with snippets of the real village life. 

Since 2012 he is permanently based in a mountain village, in the multifunctional Prop Roots Education Center, which the local Jingpo children consider as their second home. This center is the embodiment of the nonprofit grassroots project Prop Roots, founded by Anton and his Beijing-born wife, formerly a lawyer and a vehement social activist. Their project aims at empowering the village children, to make them strong enough to find their own way in their hazardous local society, challenged by cultural erosion, low chances for development, and appalling drug-related problems.

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Anton Lustig - Alight Aloft
TITLE: Alight Aloft
DATE: September 5, 2011
Cat.#: INQ018