chroma.space
Intercreate NZ
cosmoimaginaries
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Cosmoimaginaries
Programme
Summer Sessions
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Programme Opening
Program 2 opening
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:00 - 21:00 BST
Venue:
Care & Climate
Peyton Place Greenwich
SE10 8RS
United Kingdom
Rachel Blackman led us on a somatic journey to the moon and back. Artist Louise Beer showed her lunar projects and art activism for the dark skies. Laura Williams presented on behalf of Aluna London, explaining the architectural design and theory of the Moon and Tide Clock developed for the 0° longitude on the Greenwich Peninsula.
The conversation ranged from the new space age and the lunar missions of the coming year, to vital darkness and the value of shadows, and growing direct relationship with the stars, to animals that navigate using celestial bodies. Audience members shared memories of watching the first lunar landing, and spoke about what the night skies of their childhood meant to them, as well as a range of stories and myths of the moon.
There was something in the midsummer air. Emotions flowing - longing, anger, grief when considering the plans of the industrial complex for material exploitation and extraction of the moon, and the potential for yet more irreversible damage to the lunar surface. Something we dwelled on was the potentiality of the far-side of the moon - the myths of the dark side, and the possibility for instrumentation placed there to learn about the origins of the Universe, set against the possibility that too much human activity will disturb the unique radio silence of the far-side and this potential will dissapear. The gathering celebrates the fighting spirit of a new wave of activism, for the earth and beyond, rising in Devon through the #RightToRoam movement growing around Dartmoor, that asserts the right to sleep out on the moor under the stars.
The questions of how to tend respectful relationships with lunar ecologies are alive. We agreed to carry these questions to Padua for NASA’s European Lunar Symposium 2023 and the Summer workshop.
- chroma.space, Of the Spheres
- Laura Williams, presenting the theory and practice of Aluna London and the architectural designs for the site at Greenwich
- Louise Beer, Gathering Light, 2023
- Rachel Blackman’s somatic Lunar Imagining session
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June Solstice 23
Lunar Imaginaries 🌙
Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:00 - 21:00 BST
Venue:
Care & Climate
Peyton Place Greenwich
SE10 8RS
United Kingdom
Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.
― Rabindranath Tagore
You are invited to a Solstice evening for all things lunar, with a focus on the moon and entangled polycultures of ecological research, art, movement, science and creative technologies.
A new era of lunar exploration has arrived, and with it a new phase of activism. Space agencies and private companies across the planet are engaged in a new space race, with numerous lunar missions already scheduled. As humans return to the moon, how do we tend a different approach to lunar ecologies, one that goes beyond industrial exploitation and extraction, and how does this change our relations to our own damaged earth?
The evening brings together a diverse community of individuals to contemplate the moon's connection to art, imagination, and activism. Meeting the questions on lunar governance, resource extraction, energy generation, and the establishment of international human settlements entails a new phase of ecological feeling, sensing and perceiving. We invite you to join us by the Thames and dream with the moon, as we convene to explore the confluence of art, science, and ecologies of the river.
The speakers engage in a variety of creative practices and research endeavours that relate to the moon and her cycles, engaging with all that is processual, nocturnal, embodied and tidal.