[spectre] IOCOSE: All of Your Base @Aksioma

[marcela at aksioma.org]

Dear friends,

 

After a decade, the IOCOSE collective returns to Aksioma, presenting a solo
exhibition curated by Claudia D'Alonzo, an artist talk and a new edition of
Aksioma's PostScriptUM series written by Daniel Rourke. You are very welcome
to check out this new production that critically examines the NewSpace
movement.

 

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Exhibition: All of Your Base

Visit at:  <https://aksioma.org/all.of.your.base>
https://aksioma.org/all.of.your.base 

 

The artistic practice of IOCOSE focuses on the failure of narratives about
the future and technological innovation while producing new interpretations
of imaginaries, iconographies and rhetorics, sabotaging their original
meanings through often surreal poetics. 

 

All of Your Base presents the video animations Pointing at a New Planet
(2020) and Free from History (2021), featuring the journey of Elon Musk's
severed hand on Mars to colonise it. The hand is accompanied by a karaoke
that mixes some of Musk's most sensationalist statements with the voice of
Albertine Sarges, author and performer of the melody. 

 

The works are the first two chapters of in-progress research on the NewSpace
Economy, the movement of extraterrestrial colonization through private
investments that is expanding its scope from Silicon Valley to outer space.
The exhibition was curated by an independent researcher and curator Claudia
D'Alonzo.

 

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Talk: Lip-synched Stardust

Watch at:  <https://vimeo.com/653761377> https://vimeo.com/653761377

 

In this talk IOCOSE discuss their most recent production around the NewSpace
movement, which produces immense economic, technological and discursive
investments towards the private colonisation of extra-terrestrial planets.
IOCOSE explores the utopian promises surrounding the NewSpace movement and
their inevitable failure, and asks what could be done with the traces left
on our planet of this adventurous project.

 

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Booklet: Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk by Daniel Rourke

Read at:  <https://aksioma.org/daniel-rourke-why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk>
https://aksioma.org/daniel-rourke-why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk 

 

In their space race the gurus of the NewSpace movement are expanding an
imaginary that hybridizes individualism, libertarianism, neoliberal
economics, counterculture and utopianism. Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk plays
with these cultural references, taking inspiration from the most emblematic
statements spoken or tweeted by Elon Musk in recent years. 

Daniel Rourke, a London-based writer, artist and academic, has resorted to
working with the OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3)
language model to imagine and narrate chronicles from a near future in which
blockchains have materialized and the deepfakes of Bezos and Musk have
colonized Mars.  

 

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Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Zavod za sodobne umetnosti, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija

 

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