Mirant Stella

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2. a celestial interlude and comet party

   X class comets are rogue heliospheric bodies of ice and cosmic dust whose path is unpredictable or unknown. Historically their drop-in visits have inspired both awe and panic. They also offer us a collective moment to look both inward and outward. Mirant Stella is a crowd-made construction of apocalyptic vision, a comet in the making and a reflection on the civilization we have built. Like an icy snowball it accumulates material from its visitors; a comet's life in reverse and a document of a far-flung future we haven't begun to imagine.

   Curated by Adam Carlin.
   Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro NC

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   Visitors are invited to engage via text message with a constellation of speakers where they describe their vision of a distant future. The messages are translated through a series of randomly chosen languages and vocalized back to them via an online translator. With each new iteration of the text the meaning changes; sometimes only slightly, often with the introduction of some new idea that reflects the cultural understanding inherently embedded in words and idiom.

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