Back To Earth: Contested Histories Of Outer Space Travel
Back to Earth: Contested Histories of Outer Space Travel (May 4 鈥� July 29, 2023) is a multimedia exhibition and discursive program that seeks to critically engage mainstream narratives of space exploration. The program features the films Afronauts (2014) by Nuotama Bodomo (Ghana); Ningwasum (2021) by Subash Thebe Limbu (Nepal); M谩quina Ancestral: Ureipy (2023) and Karaiw a鈥檈 w脿 (The Civilized, 2022) by Zahy Tentehar (Tentehar-Guajajara, Brazil), and See you later Space Island (2022) by Alice dos Reis (Portugal).
Addressing the ways in which imaginaries of outer space travel, space tourism, and cosmic mining continue to naturalize colonization, Back to Earth takes an intersectional approach to new planetary imaginaries. The program invites artists and filmmakers who from their Indigenous, Asian, Black, and feminist perspectives are reflecting on the implications of space exploration for racialized communities 鈥揺specially as these exploratory endeavors continue to assert technocratic ideas of progress that erase, negate, and disavow the capacity of diverse forms of life to exist and thrive on our planet. This film screening will contribute to today鈥檚 most pressing planetary thinking, as it follows philosopher Kelly Oliver鈥檚 provocative question: 鈥渉ow do we share the Earth with those with whom we don鈥檛 share the world?鈥� With this in mind, we invited conceptions that reject what the one-world-logic reiterated by a totalizing view of the globe and centering instead on worlds-within-the-world.
Alongside this group of artists, the exhibition will include in person talks and discursive engagements with artists and writers who will provide critical new perspectives on the urgency of repositioning the narratives of outer space travel. This intersection will highlight how critical visual experiments today can help rethink our role in building worlds that are grounded on earth, and that are rooted in interdependence, as well as mutual accountability.
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Back to Earth: Contested Histories of Outer Space Travel (May 4 鈥� July 29, 2023) is a multimedia exhibition and discursive program that seeks to critically engage mainstream narratives of space exploration. The program features the films Afronauts (2014) by Nuotama Bodomo (Ghana); Ningwasum (2021) by Subash Thebe Limbu (Nepal); M谩quina Ancestral: Ureipy (2023) and Karaiw a鈥檈 w脿 (The Civilized, 2022) by Zahy Tentehar (Tentehar-Guajajara, Brazil), and See you later Space Island (2022) by Alice dos Reis (Portugal).
Addressing the ways in which imaginaries of outer space travel, space tourism, and cosmic mining continue to naturalize colonization, Back to Earth takes an intersectional approach to new planetary imaginaries. The program invites artists and filmmakers who from their Indigenous, Asian, Black, and feminist perspectives are reflecting on the implications of space exploration for racialized communities 鈥揺specially as these exploratory endeavors continue to assert technocratic ideas of progress that erase, negate, and disavow the capacity of diverse forms of life to exist and thrive on our planet. This film screening will contribute to today鈥檚 most pressing planetary thinking, as it follows philosopher Kelly Oliver鈥檚 provocative question: 鈥渉ow do we share the Earth with those with whom we don鈥檛 share the world?鈥� With this in mind, we invited conceptions that reject what the one-world-logic reiterated by a totalizing view of the globe and centering instead on worlds-within-the-world.
Alongside this group of artists, the exhibition will include in person talks and discursive engagements with artists and writers who will provide critical new perspectives on the urgency of repositioning the narratives of outer space travel. This intersection will highlight how critical visual experiments today can help rethink our role in building worlds that are grounded on earth, and that are rooted in interdependence, as well as mutual accountability.
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