The Last Minutes Before Mars
Photo credit:
Lorenza Daverio
THE LAST MINUTES BEFORE MARS combines 360° video and live performance, features a group of local young people, and asks the deep question: what are the necessary and sufficient conditions needed to produce a beautiful, perfectly ordinary day.
We look longingly into the night sky at that small red dot and foolishly dream of beginning again, as if our daily struggles on Earth will be more easily resolved at -65° and with the help of high doses of cosmic radiation.
THE LAST MINUTES BEFORE MARS invites you into the world of a group of young people — the last generation, perhaps — to meet their family, their friends and spend time in the precious spaces of their lives. This sets the scene for your encounter with the other strangers in the room, in a collective experience, exploring the fact that, no matter what happens to us, we live our different lives all on the same journey, toward the same destination; now, hundreds of thousands of years ago, and beyond, in a future too terrifyingly lovely to imagine.
THE LAST MINUTES BEFORE MARS ties directly to the well-documented deterioration of young people’s mental health attributed to climate change uncertainty, social media, rising world tensions, and economic challenges – exactly the conditions that are pushing people to fantasize about moving to Mars. The Last Minutes Before Mars invites the youth and the audience to settle down and focus for just a few minutes on what exactly is at stake.
THE LAST MINUTES BEFORE MARS invites you into the world of a group of young people — the last generation, perhaps — to meet their family, their friends and spend time in the precious spaces of their lives. This sets the scene for your encounter with the other strangers in the room, in a collective experience, exploring the fact that, no matter what happens to us, we live our different lives all on the same journey, toward the same destination; now, hundreds of thousands of years ago, and beyond, in a future too terrifyingly lovely to imagine.
THE LAST MINUTES BEFORE MARS ties directly to the well-documented deterioration of young people’s mental health attributed to climate change uncertainty, social media, rising world tensions, and economic challenges – exactly the conditions that are pushing people to fantasize about moving to Mars. The Last Minutes Before Mars invites the youth and the audience to settle down and focus for just a few minutes on what exactly is at stake.
Collaborators
Mammalian Diving Reflex
Producer