Interplanetary Species Society, Studies, 2019

The artwork pledge

• QUALITY EDUCATION
• GENDER EQUALITY
• DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
• REDUCED INEQUALITIES
• CLIMATE ACTION
• LIFE BELOW WATER
• LIFE ON LAND
• PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS
• PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS

Tags

• Architecture
• Collective Memory
• Collectivism
• Colonialism
• Communism
• Community
• Democracy
• Dystopia
• Environmental Justice
• Europe
• Geopolitics
• Global South
• History
• Ideology
• Installation
• Judith Butler
• Labor
• Performance Art
• Postcolonialism
• Power Structure
• Propaganda
• Social
• The Netherlands
• Utopia
• Video Art
• Works on Paper

About this artwork

Interplanetary Species Society (ISS) consists of a large-scale installation in the form of an alternative biosphere in the Reaktorhallen, the former underground nuclear facility of Stockholm. The biosphere contains assemblies of humans, ammonites, meteorites and proletarian plantae, exploring new forms of comradeship between human, non-human, and more-than-human agents.
Entering the age in which humans will become an interplanetary species, ISS challenged the neocolonial and extractivist logics at play in the corporate terraforming endeavors of Space X or Trump’s export of ultranationalist in the form of a new “Space Army.” Instead, the alternative biosphere of the ISS calls to reject the notion of space colonization in favor of space cooperation and proposes human species to consider themselves as guests instead of pioneers. Situated twenty-five meters underground, the ISS literally turns into our planet to reflect on what our future as an interplanetary species could and should be. As such, ISS proposes the biosphere as a space to train new forms of intra-planetary and interplanetary alliances.

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