
Alicia Framis
Lost Astronaut, 2010
one channel video installation
colour and sound
colour and sound
34 minutes
edition of 1/3 (+ 2 A.P.)
Copyright The Artist
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Alicia Framis’ Lost Astronaut project started during Performa 09 in New York. In her performance-installation Framis (Barcelona, Spain, 1967) attempts to open a speculative discussion about travelling to and living...
Alicia Framis’ Lost Astronaut project started during Performa 09 in New York. In her performance-installation Framis (Barcelona, Spain, 1967) attempts to open a speculative discussion about travelling to and living on the moon and women’s role in this. She looks at the possible evolution of architecture and (interior)design necessary for a permanent stay on the moon. Left on earth, like all women who were never really part of the race for the moon, Framis took on a multi-year task of changing life and behavior in space. She did so by launching her lunar mission, a new Moon society. Her performances in New York, as her alter ego dressed in a vintage spacesuit, were scripted by a large group of artists and writers. Framis wandered off in the city in her spacesuit to claim women’s presence on the moon. During Art Unlimited Framis shows a recontruction of the Lost Astronaut basecamp on Woosterstreet in New York as well as a film.
Exhibitions
2010, De Nederlandse identiteit? Moniek Toebosch, Alicia Framis, Gabriel Lester, Jennifer Tee et al. Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, NL