SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION, 2019

In March 2019, Absolut invited Harsha Biswajit to conceptualize and design a site specific installation for Absolut Art Bar, Chennai.

DETAILS

57ft /18m Long Space Tunnel built from scratch using fiberglass whose design was inspired by a scene from Stanley Kubrik’s film, ‘2001 Space Odyssey’ and 6 installation rooms within the tunnel that the audience can access and experience as they walk through the space.

CONCEPT NOTE

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 & 2 on a historic journey into deep space. Affixed to each spacecraft was a phonograph record as a message to possible extra-terrestrial civilizations, or future humans that might encounter it in some distant space and time. Each record contained images, audio recordings, music from our planet, and greetings in almost sixty human languages selected to portray the diversity of life on earth. Since these spacecrafts could last billions of years, these circular time capsules could one day be the only traces of human civilization.

Inspired by these records, we conceptualized “ABSOLUT SPACE” as a way to explore these fragments of information now floating somewhere in the far reaches of interstellar space to instigate a dialog on how we would construct an image of earth and create an experience to reflect on how we would produce our own time capsule for the future.