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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Dear friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>After a decade, the <b>IOCOSE collective</b> returns to Aksioma, presenting a solo exhibition curated by <b>Claudia D’Alonzo</b>, an artist talk and a new edition of Aksioma's PostScriptUM series written by <b>Daniel Rourke</b>. You are very welcome to check out this new production that critically examines the NewSpace movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>----------------------------------------------------------------<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Exhibition: <i>All of Your Base</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Visit at: <a href="https://aksioma.org/all.of.your.base"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://aksioma.org/all.of.your.base</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>All of Your Base</span></i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> presents the video animations<i> Pointing at a New Planet </i>(2020) and <i>Free from History </i>(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<b> Albertine Sarges</b>, author and performer of the melody. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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<b> Claudia D’Alonzo</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>----------------------------------------------------------------<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Talk: <i>Lip-synched Stardust</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Watch at: <a href="https://vimeo.com/653761377"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://vimeo.com/653761377</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>----------------------------------------------------------------<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Booklet: <i>Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk </i>by Daniel Rourke<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Read at: <a href="https://aksioma.org/daniel-rourke-why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk"><span style='color:#1155CC'>https://aksioma.org/daniel-rourke-why-i-want-to-fuck-elon-musk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>In their space race the gurus of the NewSpace movement are expanding an imaginary that hybridizes individualism, libertarianism, neoliberal economics, counterculture and utopianism. <i>Why I Want to Fuck Elon Musk</i> plays with these cultural references, taking inspiration from the most emblematic statements spoken or tweeted by Elon Musk in recent years.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Daniel Rourke, a London-based writer, artist and academic, has resorted to working with the <b>OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) language model</b> to imagine and narrate chronicles from a near future in which blockchains have materialized and the deepfakes of Bezos and Musk have colonized Mars. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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