The New Women’s Space Program (2019-20)
Tusia Dabrowska and Wiktor Freifeld with Sara Batkie, Clara Schuhmacher, and others.
Tusia Dabrowska and Wiktor Freifeld with Sara Batkie, Clara Schuhmacher, and others.
A woman astronaut is sent on a solo mission to Mars. Haunted by visions of cross-generational trauma, she feels the need to crash her spacecraft. Will she reach her destination?
THE NEW WOMEN’S SPACE PROGRAM is a devised immersive performance composed of 3 provocations. The project was put on indefinite hold at the start of the pandemic.
Sketches for Provocation 1 were explored at
KonventZero,
Circle1 (Berlin),
Celestial FutureX at Soft Surplus (Brooklyn) EdgeCut, New Inc.
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Provocation 1:
A young pilot named after Sally Ride agrees to have implants put into her brain to safely dock a spacecraft on Mars with an A.I.’s assistance. As her mission appears to be failing, the cross-generation trauma of migration begins to affect the pilot’s decisions. The A.I. video documents her deterioration. Will Sally Ride safely land?
Provocation 2:
Valentina Tereshkova, now in her 80s, is determined to find water on Mars. Alone, she is setting up the first human colony. The A.I. implanted in her head warns her against the dangers of her mission, but she knows this technology was designed by men—even more, American men, and she does not trust it. Will Valentina find water on Mars?
Provocation 3:
Tereshkova is lonely and against the directives she received, she wants to come back home. Via headset, Sally Ride guides her back to Earth. The journey back gives them time to grow close. Will Valentina make it back? And what happened to the A.I.?
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THE NEW WOMEN’S SPACE PROGRAM is a devised immersive performance composed of 3 provocations. The project was put on indefinite hold at the start of the pandemic.
Sketches for Provocation 1 were explored at
KonventZero,
Circle1 (Berlin),
Celestial FutureX at Soft Surplus (Brooklyn) EdgeCut, New Inc.
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Provocation 1:
A young pilot named after Sally Ride agrees to have implants put into her brain to safely dock a spacecraft on Mars with an A.I.’s assistance. As her mission appears to be failing, the cross-generation trauma of migration begins to affect the pilot’s decisions. The A.I. video documents her deterioration. Will Sally Ride safely land?
Provocation 2:
Valentina Tereshkova, now in her 80s, is determined to find water on Mars. Alone, she is setting up the first human colony. The A.I. implanted in her head warns her against the dangers of her mission, but she knows this technology was designed by men—even more, American men, and she does not trust it. Will Valentina find water on Mars?
Provocation 3:
Tereshkova is lonely and against the directives she received, she wants to come back home. Via headset, Sally Ride guides her back to Earth. The journey back gives them time to grow close. Will Valentina make it back? And what happened to the A.I.?
