Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module @ The New Museum

[Dave Monroe]

The vessel is inspired by the spacecraft in the iconic Czech
science-fiction film Ikarie XB-1 (1963), which melded postwar
utopianism with Soviet utilitarianism. In its structure and design, it
recalls future fantasies from the socialist Eastern European side of
the Iron Curtain and explores the ideological role that outer space
played during this time. On view in and around the spacecraft will be
117 artworks, including video, sculpture, print, and installation, by
artists hailing primarily from cities around Eastern Europe, notably
Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, and Bratislava, all of whom
tranzit has worked with previously.

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http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/report-on-the-construction-of-a-spaceship-module

Ikarie XB 1 (1963)

Filmoteca Stanislaw Lem

https://archive.org/details/IkarieXb1jindrichPolk1963
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