Imaginary Futures

Artist Talk - Marcus Neustetter

I presented my work as part of this exhibition and platform: Moon Gallery - The Bridge Friday 19/3: ArtMoonMars and Society (9:30 - 15:00 CET) I showcased Lead The Way A series of projects I have been exploring in an attempted dialogue with Sumbandila Satellite at 12:00 CET - ABOUT THE EXHIBITON AND EVENT: Join us on our time travel journey to 2025! By then, we will have the miniature and large versions of the gallery connecting Earth and Moon. The bridge. The bridge that gives access to humanity and our culture to space; a wholly new concept that we invite you to explore with us through this exhibition. ⁠ ⁠ This event is part of the EuroMoonMars, Earth, Space & Innovation EMMESI Workshop (Hybrid) 16-19 March. You can join other interesting workshops about space missions, astronaut training, AI, and so much more! ⁠ ⁠ - ABOUT MY PRESENTATION AND ARTWORK: .-.. . .- -.. - .... . .-- .- -.-- .- --. .- .. -. (Lead The Way Again) After a decade of attempting to engage the defunct lonely orbiting South African ambassador, Sumbandila Satellite, artist Marcus Neustetter once again seeks collaboration with her and sends a letter via the Moon Gallery. Sumbandila means "lead the way” in Venda language. The letter asks her to “lead the way again”. Not in the way she was intended to operate when launched in 2009, but in continuing to stimulate the imagination, question the unknown, and speculate new perspectives into space and onto earth. On the one side the letter is a zig-zag folded paper drawing in ink, a cross-section of an imaginary terrain. The other side has a hand written morse-code-message. When folded up it measures 1 cubic cm and when expanded it is 1cm x 31.5cm. It is on archival cotton paper wrapped in a paper sleeve. On Earth, A Letter to SumbandilaSat is accompanied by a series of artwork actions which summarise a long journey by Neustetter of attempting to communicate with the satellite. Short films, larg drawings, installations, performances, stamp designs, light artworks, digital print series, rocket sculptures and robots from different parts of Africa, Europe and America are all steps in Neustetters’ search to imagine the speculative perspective of SumbandilaSat.

9 Colours

Lead the Way Again

Nov 11th 2021 - Jan 22nd 2022

The Mixed Reality Workshop