(11/9 – 11/17/2013)
Microwave Festival website
A small exhibition, containing 5 artworks in total. In accordance with the overall space & moon theme of the festival, the artworks on display all related to the topic, and I felt the relation was a bit too predictable: A withered rose that has supposedly been exposed to Mars-like weather conditions, a fictional story/installation about “Moon Geese”, a project visualizing satellites and space debris plus building an open source satellite, an “eternal sunset” constructed from web sourced images projected on DYI construction material like silicon pipes hanging from the ceiling and a double projection of an astronaut dummy turning around endlessly in the starry sky… The works which I appreciated the most were the precision of the Moon Goose installation, even though I found the content a bit over the top (having a funny video about Moon Geese would be enough in my opinion); I also appreciated the Coallision project, an artist group building their own microsatellite to be sent out to space – here I liked the idea, but it was the presentation that lagged a bit behind: For a futuristic project like a satellite – no matter if real or fake – I expected some more futuristic presentation than a model cut out from paper and photocopies pinned on the wall.