Cosmopolitics
In the organizer's words:
In the era of the new space, Cosmopolitics argues that the cosmos is a common good that belongs equally to all earthly beings. Treated as an infinite resource by private and state actors seeking to exploit it, its actual finiteness requires a collective management, a democracy beyond national and anthropological boundaries.
Since its inception, the conquest of space in the name of progress has exported earthly conflicts and unjust hierarchies to the stars. While China's Chang'e program seeks to explore the origins of the moon and the solar system, it is clear that the exploration of Earth's satellite is the first step in a larger cosmic extractivist enterprise. Along with Elon Musk's SpaceX program to colonize Mars and achieve "multiplanetary civilization" - an unrealistic utopia that has been turned into a propaganda tool for right-wing ideas - the astrocapitalist agenda is emerging as an inherently fascist project.
Between astrological satellites, xenolichens and thinking planets, Cosmopolitics transforms the profane location of the Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch into a speculative spaceship. The artworks presented in the exhibition nourish new political imaginations to reinvent our relationship with the cosmos and realize our planetary constitution.
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