| Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems | ||
Endeavours to be a trilogy of works developed under the Banner Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. The first part of the trilogy Untitled Mars (this title may change) was presented as a studio work in progress October 5, 2007 at the MIT Museum and is slated to premier at Performance Space 122 in April 2008. More information coming soon..................... |
Would you go to Mars knowing that you wouldn’t be coming back? Ever. The proposed one-way mission to colonize Mars continues to gain momentum, since its suggestion by the legendary Joe Gavin, former director of the Apollo Lunar Module Program. Through a series of cinema vérité portraits and an intense physical performance style, Untitled Mars puts the scientists who are working to make life on the Red Planet a reality, side by side, with some of the fictions that have captured our imagination for over a century. Science vs. Fiction in this new work for six performers and a simulated Martian environment—a story about moving society to Mars—and what happens when we succeed... |
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| Photo Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech | ||
