Space Has Arrived

If nothing else, 2020 has lifted the veil, and a comprehensive global crisis is now drowning in humanity’s collective awareness. Confronted with the urgency of our planetary predicament, we revisit Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, a reminder that Earth is a spaceship with finite supplies and collaboration is the key to our collective future. We are at a crossroads, having simultaneously gained the potential to destroy all life to extinction and acquired the skills to fulfill the basic survival needs of all humanity.
This year, we join Ars Electronica In Kepler’s garden online program, a collective effort among the global to reconnect. We created a digital spaceship to share the diverse portfolio from the initiative. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves in this digital world, walk around and encounter each other.

This year, we joined Ars Electronica In Kepler’s garden online program, a collective effort among the global to reconnect. We created a digital spaceship to share the diverse portfolio from the initiative. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves in this digital world, walk around and encounter each other.

We will invite the public to engage with the imaginative, critical conversations on our planetary future through three workshop events. We will also feature an exhibition on Sojourner2020, the first international art open call that took a trip to the International Space Station this March. Sojourner2020 is created by an unprecedented collection of international artists, bringing in knowledge from indigenous groups, queer communities and diverse cultures, as well as transdisciplinary perspectives.