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LI Muyun “People Who Will Soon Crash at Point Nemo”

September 10–November 10, 2024

Outline

This work is a video installation based on a stereo drama modeled after a radio program. It is based on the real story of a former Soviet Union cosmonaut Sergei KRIKALEV who was left in space for almost a year as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union while he was at Mir space station.

Point Nemo is a point in the South Pacific located at 48˚52′S 123°23′W. It is considered perfect as a target for dropping controllable satellites because it is the furthest place from land on earth (oceanic pole of inaccessibility) and does not have biodiversity of any considerable complexity. In fact, many satellites have been dropped here.

The work depicts KRIKALEV as a “displaced person” who has lost his home to return to because he has left the earth and transcended its borders. Then, the imagination expands from Point Nemo, a spacecraft cemetery, to “Point Nemo of the Spirit,” where the consciousness of those who have lost their place in the world gathers.

Many people in today’s society feel out of place or strongly alienated due to the various circumstances in which they find themselves. Throughout the work, the artist asks why things continue to happen in this world where people have to lose their place in it, and why such people have no choice but to fall into “Point Nemo of the Spirit.”


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