Julieta Aranda,
Brian Kuan Wood,
Anton Vidokle,
et alNika Dubrovsky, David Graeber, Hou Hanru, Ou Ning, Trevor Paglen, Alessandra Franetovich, Jumana Manna, Steve Lyons, [5 More...]
In this issue, Alessandra Franetovich and Trevor Paglen discuss Orbital Reflector, Paglen’s reflective sculpture launched into low-earth orbit as a satellite. Housed in a small box-like structure, the lightweight reflective material of the sculpture was meant to deploy and self-inflate like a balloon and reflect sunlight towards earth, making it visible to our eyes as a nearby artificial star. Unfortunately, at the critical moment of the sculpture’s release in 2018, the US government was on shutdown, with all agencies held hostage in order to force Congress to fund Trump’s gigantic border wall between the US and Mexico. There was no ...
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