To The Moon

To the Moon is the journey to the moon by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin Chien Huang. It features endangered life forms – a polar bear and a bee – and emphasizes the transitory as opposed to the fixed.

When the viewer looks at the constellations, they evaporate, tracing the way humans make and break the world. We fly through the history of fossil fuels, passing through dinosaur skeletons made of DNA symbols that turn into Cadillacs. We glide through a dystopian dump of plastic and nuclear waste with long scaly tentacles instead of arms. Finally, the “Stone Rose”, inspired by the rose in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s book Le Petit Prince, is a fossil rose adrift in the universe, surrounded by planets.