Going to Earth to benefit Space

Going to Earth to Save Space (IOCOSE, 2022) The artwork is a collage of online videos of rockets sent to space by NewSpace companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origins. The title of the video refers to Jeff Bezos’ slogan ‘Going to space to benefit Earth’, a statement made in a number of public speeches to promote the NewSpace movement and their ambition to save humankind from climate catastrophe by migrating to other planets. The video inverts the direction of the space rockets, and imagines a colonisation project from Mars and outer Space aiming towards planet Earth. By reversing the slogan and the rocket launches by 180 degrees, IOCOSE questions the narrative that sees Earth and earthlings as the main and only actors of any possible future.