The Battle from Outer Space is a product of a dual experience of lockdown and the current pandemic – both in terms of the imposed constraints on mental and practical capacities, but also the warped possibilities provided by the expanse of time. The discomfort of facing the uncertainty of ‘purpose’ in a space of alienation is reflected directly into Billy’ Sassi's film, where two spacemen are stranded on a distant planet while a war rages back at home.
They wait to be retrieved and returned to Earth but can't seem to make contact with their colleagues back at the base. Our two unnamed spacemen spend their time expressing discontent at their idleness, playing unknown board games with space rocks and role-playing their imagined part in the war. Humour is a key component that results from these two apparent dissonant planes – of everyday familiarity, and the complete unknown.
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Guide
London Design Festival 2023
Welcome to T/C Latvia : Latvian pavilion at Venice Biennale
James Lee Byars, 1932–1997
Paik’s Video Study - Nam June Paik Art Center
James Turrell - Aftershock
Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence
Bruce Nauman. Neons Corridors Rooms
Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
Jitish Kallat: Order Of Magnitude
