M4Mars Settlement

Time Capsules function as an intended installation of future monuments erected in memory of human history and of the present threats of capitalism within a hypothetical base on Mars. The nations who would make it to its headquarters might choose to honour those who have been left behind. Equally, the structures could be disregarded and taken apart to be used as tools, weapons - as the building blocks of new cultures and modes of survival.
Rocks and boulders are seen enveloped in steel, marble, and granite awaiting a long term material transformation by Mars’s high levels of iron oxide and radiation. In the form of vessels - amongst the first signs of human civilisation, they carry the deed of preservation, memory, and constructed knowledge in the age of the Anthropocene. These meta-meteorites which constitute Earth’s oldest rock formations would temporarily archive the global history of humanity and of our previous home. As fossils, they bring the traces of geomorphology and human intervention in landscapes. Establishing a condition of scarcity at a future point in time, the metals pose questions surrounding value, ownership and current systems of production.
The exhibited specimens have been found in photogrammetric libraries and bear the photorealistic shapes and textures of existing rocks and metals. Their provenance acts as a reminder of people’s increasing struggle to differentiate between fact and invention, and of technological mediated simulacra irreversibly engulfing reality.

Time Capsules function as an intended installation of future monuments erected in memory of human history and of the present threats of capitalism within a hypothetical base on Mars. The nations who would make it to its headquarters might choose to honour those who have been left behind. Equally, the structures could be disregarded and taken apart to be used as tools, weapons - as the building blocks of new cultures and modes of survival.
Rocks and boulders are seen enveloped in steel, marble, and granite awaiting a long term material transformation by Mars’s high levels of iron oxide and radiation. In the form of vessels - amongst the first signs of human civilisation, they carry the deed of preservation, memory, and constructed knowledge in the age of the Anthropocene. These meta-meteorites which constitute Earth’s oldest rock formations would temporarily archive the global history of humanity and of our previous home. As fossils, they bring the traces of geomorphology and human intervention in landscapes. Establishing a condition of scarcity at a future point in time, the metals pose questions surrounding value, ownership and current systems of production.
The exhibited specimens have been found in photogrammetric libraries and bear the photorealistic shapes and textures of existing rocks and metals. Their provenance acts as a reminder of people’s increasing struggle to differentiate between fact and invention, and of technological mediated simulacra irreversibly engulfing reality.

Time Capsules function as an intended installation of future monuments erected in memory of human history and of the present threats of capitalism within a hypothetical base on Mars. The nations who would make it to its headquarters might choose to honour those who have been left behind. Equally, the structures could be disregarded and taken apart to be used as tools, weapons - as the building blocks of new cultures and modes of survival.
Rocks and boulders are seen enveloped in steel, marble, and granite awaiting a long term material transformation by Mars’s high levels of iron oxide and radiation. In the form of vessels - amongst the first signs of human civilisation, they carry the deed of preservation, memory, and constructed knowledge in the age of the Anthropocene. These meta-meteorites which constitute Earth’s oldest rock formations would temporarily archive the global history of humanity and of our previous home. As fossils, they bring the traces of geomorphology and human intervention in landscapes. Establishing a condition of scarcity at a future point in time, the metals pose questions surrounding value, ownership and current systems of production.
The exhibited specimens have been found in photogrammetric libraries and bear the photorealistic shapes and textures of existing rocks and metals. Their provenance acts as a reminder of people’s increasing struggle to differentiate between fact and invention, and of technological mediated simulacra irreversibly engulfing reality.

Given the lack of oxygen in the air in Mars’ atmosphere, Till Fire Do Us Part is an archival video that explores the impacts that fire has had on the development of society and, consequently, speculates on how the absence of this element could shape life.

A video collating archival footage of fire.

The Sanctuary is where one performs their essential ritual everyday. This is to provide generously as a humble servant of Mars, to feed the Sacred Peepal, which definitely supplies the molecules we breathe.

During the Ritual, you are
free to introspect and reflect upon your duty as a Mars-person. You may tilt your hips and engage in a sitting position. Let all uncertainties, anxieties and depressing thoughts build up in your body. And release. Congratulations! You have produced in your Ritual today. We will deliver your produce to the Sacred Peepal. You must perform a Ritual once daily to remind yourself that you are not a filthy Earth-person. You may leave the Sanctuary.

Instructional video for the intended use of The Sanctuary.

The Sanctuary is where one performs their essential ritual everyday. This is to provide generously as a humble servant of Mars, to feed the Sacred Peepal, which definitely supplies the molecules we breathe.

During the Ritual, you are
free to introspect and reflect upon your duty as a Mars-person. You may tilt your hips and engage in a sitting position. Let all uncertainties, anxieties and depressing thoughts build up in your body. And release. Congratulations! You have produced in your Ritual today. We will deliver your produce to the Sacred Peepal. You must perform a Ritual once daily to remind yourself that you are not a filthy Earth-person. You may leave the Sanctuary.

On Mars the gravity affects our body. How to maintain our body trained with exercises? Follow the voice and practise at home. Let's create a bridge between Mars and your Planet.

A manifesto, part of Anna Komitska's project Time Capsules.

It’s a short drive to Utopia. East of the Jezero Crater was better known for its Earth jazz scene. 

Today, citizens stay at home. Icy red dust hangs heavy on the Martian Highways; it's too harsh to be eating out. The Diner was built with a coloniser’s optimism – the management never stood a chance. 

The space was adopted by the lost and the faithful. They are the cowboys who seek peace in “Wife”, Goddess of Domesticity. She embodies Safety; Home; Earth.

She is Wife on Mars.

Composed verse-by-verse from whole tweets from Elon Musk. This poem is not a prayer nor a meditation, but merely pure porcelain thoughts.

Agora Peractorum is a place where the Artificial Intelligence - based design gives the human a sense of belonging far away from Mother Earth. It is a gift of an ancient agora, the ruins, the textures lost in matrix, the human dimension. The sculpture depicts homo ultra - human beyond - a nostalgic homo sapiens living in the new age of discovery, digitalism and long travels, craving the empathy and tangible experience, leaving the Earth just for the desire of recreating the feelings and emotions far away. The design piece takes its inspiration from the Ancient architecture, motives of ruins and Solaris (by A. Tarkovsky)

My sound piece, Mars Test 1, tries to address three interrelated questions: what might a Mars settlement sound like? How might we make a Mars settlement sound? How might the work of imagining a Mars settlement sound? While all are important, the final question, of the speculative practice of future-thought, is at the front of my mind. Stefano Harney: ‘it’s not the thing that you do; it’s the thing that happens while you’re doing it that becomes important’. The piece attempts to respond to the conversations that were had and ideas raised while imagining and thinking about the settlement. 

Nostalgia, acceleration, comfort, alienation and the noisy material Real of living on a dead planet, where sound travels at slower speeds in a carbon-dioxide based atmosphere, are strands that are sometimes picked up, cut, looped and thought about in a form meant to evoke the experience of channel hopping, or, avoiding nostalgia, the shifting sounds of the personalised content stream. There are a small number of recordings of Mars-sound released by NASA, many of which form the base of the piece, as noise. Noise, as material and idea, is essential to my conception of a Mars settlement, because a utopian project that’s all signal, with no remainder, is hard (and in my opinion not very interesting) to imagine. 

Our sonic relationship between Earth and interplanetary settlement must approach the Earth-archive in terms of extraction, displacement and confusion. What do we want to keep; what do we not want to keep, but have to anyway; what have we kept, but wish we didn’t? Jacques Derrida talks of ‘the violence of the archive itself’, because ‘every archive [...] is at once institutive and conservative. Revolutionary and traditional’. Thinking through revolution and acceleration, nostalgia and tradition, the piece tries to speak an interanimation of signal and noise, preservation and disposability, to respond to what it means to imagine living as far away from Earth as Mars is.

Cyborgian Robotters patrol the surface of mars, as examples of how in the future animals will be displaced from the earth and used as physical manifestations of policing, of the population, by tech billionaires.
 
Otters are a species carefully documented by the population of Singapore, through the Facebook group 'Otter Watch'. The Robotters propose the possibility of subverting this gaze, and in turn which species is held captive.

Nasubi is your guide in exploring the settlement. Storyline created by Bart Seng Wen Long and Juliusz Grabianski.

Mashup of Saucy Santana's Material Girl and Sophie's Immaterial.