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• from: index (pad)

  We live in a time that presents seemingly boundless opportunities for travel; our GPS sets trajectories to placesdistant lands via car; Taylor Swift’s private jet speeds between NFL and Pop stadia; while Musk and Bezos compete for dominance in space tourism markets. But in a context of global climate crisis and widening economic disparity, the cost of such mobility becomes impossible to ignore. At the same time, the occupation of colonised lands, global movement of bodiesdisplaced peoples and technologically mediated experiences of community render perceptionsa sense of belonging to one, or any place(s) increasingly fraught. In this context, See you there/On se voit la-bas/ Zie je daar asks: How do we re-imagine places for community connection, amid such complexity?

• from: Pocket 2: Fertile Cosmos (report)

  “The cosmos may be fertile: astral bodies, including planets, may be seeded with life, some of them becoming in essence extraterrestrial Gaias, bodiesautopoetic beings run by microbes in space” (Dorion Sagan, as cited by Molenda)* *