Global Periphery

Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th Septembre 2022
14h00 – 19h00
Location
Cité Internationale des Arts
Auditorium
18, rue de l’Hôtel de Ville – 75004 Paris
Free entrance upon registration

Global Periphery is a symposium exploring the contemporary imaginaries of space through examples of artistic creations and of activities from the space sector with voices from multiple continents and locations. It is part of More-Than-Planet , a Creative Europe project of which Leonardo/Olats is a partner. Global Periphery is thus part of a conceptual understanding of the planet as a global dynamic system.

As we witness more countries joining the space faring nations, the arrival of private companies in the so-called « New Space », as major new astronomical instruments have been deployed in South America, Africa and in Space, as we are questioning anew what the Human presence in space should be and our inhabiting our own Planet, it is a perfect time to reconsider the space imaginaries.

The dominant space imaginaries are rooted in the culture of the nations that have lead the first era of the space exploration, largely coming from the United States of America and the Hollywood iconography. What have been —and are— doing all the others? Stating, analysing, re-interpreting, questionning, cross-breeding, inventing, creating space imaginaries in and from multiple dimensions is at the core of Global Periphery.

The time when we divided the World in « center » and « periphery » is gone. We are all in periphery, next to each other, sharing the same Planet, the same sky and the same cosmos.

Marcus Neustetter brings his project Imaginary Futures — an experimental collective creation online with counterparts and extensions in the physical space— to Global Periphery with a performance and a workshop.

For the Global Periphery event, we have produced a series of podcasts based on a deck of cards especially designed for the project. They were recorded with the participants to the symposium and some audience members.
All answered the same “token” question: What Attracts you to Space. Then they selected randomly and blindly two other cards. Discover their answers in those 8 choral podcasts.