ADColab: project two// LAG. space team...

LAG spaceteam IS: LMAC (Lauren Mackler), ANJOHN (Anders Johnson) and YOUNG GUN (Jonggeon Lee)

After having been prompted by the assignment, to create a project on the theme of autumn, and that will be aimed to "failure," we met at the Hot Club to discuss the possibilities. We because interested in how both the words autumn and failure could be reinterpreted and how language could lead us in different directions... Autumn is also Fall, falling is failing (to resist to gravity?), failing is relative much like truth and fiction.

We began thinking about projects that would have us FALLing in love, or absurd scenarios in which we would have a series of tasks and obstacles that we could not possibly succeed in (walking on water?). We began discussing the recent Chinese space walk. Like many other space adventures it is riddled with conspiracy theories of whether or not it actually took place. It turns out the transcripts of the walk were circulated a day before the launch even happened.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4826302.ece

We decided to do our own attempt to a space walk. We wanted to apply to NASA. Eventually we perceived failing as "failing to convince you we went to space." We built space suits out of duck tape and cardboard and shot a gravity defying video in a dark alley by the river. We recorded a transcript from the space walk (supposedly the transcript that was circulated) and made a romantic slide show of our space adventures.

Our space team is now called LAG (Lauren, Anders & Gun)
The installation of the piece is modular and multi-media: 2 videos, an audio transcript, a printed transcript and the suits hanging to create a completely overly stimulating experience.

In short: Inspired by the Chinese space walk and the controversy that followed it in the fall of 2008, we decided to fail at our own spacewalk for this assignment...

Our LAG patch...