KOSMOS / NEKROS / КОСМОС / НЕКРОС
https://kosmos-nekros.com/
Neilson Koerner-Safrata (CA) | Adonis Leboho (UK) | Valeriia Tolkacheva (RU)
The only humans to have died in outer space are the three Russian cosmonauts of the Soyuz 11 Mission, 1971. To die in outer space is to approach two shared unknowns: the limit of the human in terms of its mortality, and our planetary limits in the extension of outer space. This historical interplay between space as both the realm of idealism and the crucible of technological development offers an interpretative framework for approaching questions of human finitude. How far the human can be untethered from its original context and propagate the planet outwards entails the reassessment of our epistemological frameworks and their implications for design. Kosmos and Nekros, therefore, emerge as shared boundary conditions that raise questions of the knowing and unknowing of the limits of human knowledge and experience. In moving beyond the sacralised images of the Blue Marble and the human as Vitruvian, our historical and contemporary imaginaries of space open to a new retelling through a systems view of life and death in the kosmos.
Credits:
The project was developed during The Terraforming 2021 at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, Russia
https://theterraforming.strelka.com/
Project team: Neilson Koerner-Safrata, Adonis Leboho, Valeriia Tolkacheva
Program Directors: Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev
Additional Credits:
Music
Peter Isachenko
Website
Maria Fedorova
Translation
Laura Isachenko
Special Thanks
Anton Vidokle
Geoff Manaugh
Regina Peldszus
Valerie Olson
Footage
Alice Gorman
Biosphere Foundation
Blue Origin
Canadian Space Agency
European Space Agency
James Weiss
Justin Walsh
Krasnoyarsk Film Studio
Martin Trolle Mikkelsen
Mikulski Archive for Space
My Microscopic World
NASA Archive
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
NASA Johnson Center
Oisiaa
Real Russia
Roscosmos Archive
Roscosmos Media
San Diego Space Museum
Sean Doran
Space Facts
Spaceship Earth
SpaceX
Virgin Galactic
Wendy Salmond
TTF 2021 – KOSMOS / NEKROS