IAT

Institut für Allgemeine Theorie / Institute of General Theory 

EARTH SEEN
FROM SPACE

There is something quietly brutal about a light bulb.
It shines confidently, yet its death is already engineered into it. 


Our home, reduced to a single bulb mounted on a

black board, becomes a small and finite sun.
A closed system. A countdown glowing in plain sight.

The work compresses the planetary into the ordinary and turns Earth into something that could be replaced at a hardware store. A consumable sphere of light with a predetermined end.


Perhaps the real question is not how brightly we can make it shine, but why we remain so occupied with trivial urgencies while the conditions of our existence are visibly burning away.


In the steady glow of the bulb, permanence reveals itself as

an illusion.


EARTH SEEN FROM SPACE marks a transition between 

my practice as IAT and my collaboration with Sue Corke 

as WE COLONISED THE MOON.


It brings together the central questions and motivations of both long term practices: the investigation of our species and its conditions on Earth, and the shift in perspective that occurs when we imagine ourselves from elsewhere.


The work moves between these two artistic constellations and appears in both contexts. It operates as a bridge, carrying shared concerns across different frameworks, while allowing each to reflect and recalibrate the other.


2009 — Oxo Tower, Southbank, London

2014 — Liste Art Fair, Basel

2017 — European Center for the Arts, Hellerau

2018 — Science Gallery, Dublin

2019 — Ars Electronica Festival, Linz


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