Ohad Fishof
Nothing in Space
2022
Camera performance
n/a
status:
A camera performance on board of the International Space Station in which the astronaut Eytan Stibbe pauses all his routine pursuits for one hour.
Throughout the twentieth century, space flight has come to symbolize mankind’s resourcefulness. It is synonymous with man’s heroic ability to shatter one boundary after another - geographic, technological, scientific, conceptual, physical and biological. Astronauts have become the elite crack squad of the human spirit, fit for operating mankind’s most sublime machine that transports the best of men and women as our vanguard, on a journey to meet the destiny of humanity.
The responsibility is formidable, the costs high; task-mindedness is the language, efficiency is an imperative. Time is money and time in space comes with a particularly prohibitive premium.
“Nothing in Space” is a camera performance; a symbolic act of undeniable excess. In this performance, Eytan will be pausing all of his routine pursuits for one hour, during which he will not shut his eyes; he will not talk or engage in conversation; he will not read, write, eat, drink or engage in any other kind of activity. He will remain motionless, save for the involuntary motion caused by weightlessness.
Through his very being he will manifest the opposite of his mission, he will be but he will not do.
Technical information
artist
Ohad Fishof
title
Nothing in Space
date
2022
medium
Camera performance
dimensions
n/a
genre
Performance
IAAA art style
this work is part of the following collection
Rakia Art Project
artwork COSPAR id
Launch
Space
Return
launch date
8 Apr 2022
launch mission
Axiom Mission 1
launch provider
SpaceX
return date
return vehicle
return location
launch location
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
host vehicle
International Space Station
return vehicle COSPAR id
launching state
location
USA
LEO, International Space Station (ISS)
host vehicle COSPAR id
1998-067A
status
Unknown
launch vehicle COSPAR id
2022-037A
partners
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