Spaced Out in Outer Space
About
The video project Spaced Out in Outer Space explores contemporary notions of nature and society. The work is structured into four Chapters: Immortality, Space Travel, Nature as Computer Code and Equilibrium. For this approach, Paul Wiersbinski wrote short stories to explore narrative itself as a political tool and to talk about what future communities might look like. Based on these narratives, Behrang Karimi produced drawings and paintings. Within this backdrop inspired by science fiction, art history, and cybernetics, they constructed a space ship at Lacuna Lab in Berlin, which also functioned as a Dionysian bar where motifs of madness and wilderness intermingled during a concert performance. In this respect “Spaced Out” has a double meaning: It plays with motives of both leaving the earth and one’s own mind. The two artists want to open up possibilities to re-read scientific phantasies about controlling the limits of our existence in order to explore what Donna Haraway refers to, when she says: “It matters what thoughts think thoughts.” https://wholelife.hkw.de/spaced-out-in-outer-space
