Installation view “All of your Base“, photo by Domen Pal / Aksioma
Installation views “Loops & Vectors“, photos by Matteo Cattaruzzi
Installation views “A Raft drifting through the space“, photos by Borut Brozović
IOCOSE, The Hollow Chorus lacquered wood, plastic hubs, microphone, h 220 cm, ø 370 cm, 2021.
The Hollow Chorus hints at the geodesic structures that appear in the 3D renderings produced and circulated by NewSpace companies, and used to promote imaginary future settlements on extraterrestrial planets. The geodesic dome is an architectural structure made popular in the 1950s by Richard Buckminster Fuller, who envisioned it as a symbol of the democratisation of architecture: an easily assembled, expandable unit, each node and connection of which bears the same weight. In the ‘60s, thanks in part to Fuller being hailed by many as a visionary and guru, the geodesic dome was appropriated by countercultural circles, while today it is often adopted by Silicon Valley. IOCOSE’s The Hollow Chorus has a microphone hanging from the top, inviting the audience to sing along to the tunes of Pointing at a New Planet and Free From History. But the microphone is not accessible from the outside: just as the NewSpace movement invites us to join space trips that are both technically impossible and entirely unaffordable, the invitation to sing is both offered and denied at the same time.
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2024
- A raft drifting through space, Drugomore, Rijeka, Croatia
2022
- Loops & Vectors, FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena, Italy
2021
- All of your Base, Aksioma, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
CRITICAL READINGS
- Cos’è la NewSpace Economy, il colonialismo a matrioska del futuro – interview with Claudia D’Alonzo, Che Fare, July 16 2020, link (italian only).
- Spatial momentum. An interview with IOCOSE – interview with Claudia D’Alonzo, Digicult, July 8 2020, link.
- Artistic engagements with the New Space age – The Open University, January 2021, interview with Alessandra Marino, link.
- Why I want to fuck Elon Musk – a novel by Daniel Rourke, published by Aksioma. 2021, link.
