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Republic of the Moon
As the players in the 21st century race for the Moon line up—the USA, China, India and Russia jostling with private corporations interested in exploiting the Moon’s resources—a group of artists are declaring a Republic of the Moon: a ‘micronation’ for alternative visions of lunar life.
du 16 décembre 2011 au 26 février 2012
As the players in the 21st century race for the Moon line up—the USA, China, India and Russia jostling with private corporations interested in exploiting the Moon’s resources—a group of artists are declaring a Republic of the Moon: a ‘micronation’ for alternative visions of lunar life.
Republic of the Moon challenges utilitarian plans for lunar mines and military bases with artists’ imaginings and interventions. Combining beguiling fantasies, personal encounters, and playful appropriations of space habitats and scientific technologies, it reclaims the Moon for artists, idealists and dreamers. The last Moon race was driven by the political impulses of the Cold War, but shaped by extraordinary visions of space created by writers, film-makers, and artists, from Jules Verne, Lucien Rudaux, and Vasily Levshin, to HG Wells, Stanislav Lem and Stanley Kubrick. Can artists’ quixotic visions reconcile our romantic notions of the Moon with its colonised future, and help us to reimagine our relationship with our natural satellite in the new space age?
Curated by The Arts Catalyst and FACT, Republic of the Moon includes major new commissions by Agnes Meyer-Brandis and WE COLONISED THE MOON, and works by Leonid Tishkov, Andy Gracie, Liliane Lijn and Sharon Houkema.
EVENTS
Opening
Thursday 15 December, 6–8pm
Artists’ breakfast
Friday 16 December, 10.30am – Online booking
Kosmica: Women in Space
31 January 2011, 7–10pm. The Arts Catalyst’s series of galactic gatherings comes to Liverpool with Hilde de Bruijn of the Moon Life Foundation and a screening of Ulrike Kubatta film ‘She Should Have Gone To The Moon’. Online booking
Film programme
details at www.fact.co.uk
FACT / Republic of the Moon
16 December 2011–26 February 2012
88 Wood Street, Liverpool
L1 4DQ, UK
www.artscatalyst.org
www.fact.co.uk
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