Gotye and Amanda Palmer to be immortalised in outer space for Aphids’ Forever Now
If you could create one minute of art to be sent into outer space, what would it be?
That is the question that Grammy Award winner Gotye and American vocalist Amanda Palmer will soon answer with their original contributions (in sound or audio visual format) to Aphids’ Forever Now project.
Other artists contributing to this inspired project. include body architect Lucy McRae, acclaimed French composer Pierre Henry, Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustaffson, Mexican artist Ivan Puig, Australian two person art collective Soda_Jerk, musician James Ferraro, Famous New Media Artist Jeremy Bailey, Japanese designer/artist Sputniko! and digital artist Kim Laughton.
Forever Now is inspired by the Golden Record sent into space on the Voyager space probe in 1977. Curated by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, the record was intended to represent the best of humanity. Forever Now seeks to create a new Golden Record for the 21st Century answering the question, ‘What is humanity now?’
The project is curated by Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes and MOMA FOMA), Aphids’ Artistic Director, Willoh S. Weiland, Jeff Khan (co-director, Performance Space) and Thea Baumann (Aphids’ Artistic Associate).
Submissions for Forever Now are open until June 2014 for artists and composers to create original one-minute works in sound and audio-visual format. Contributors are asked to respond to the fact that their piece will last a billion years and to ‘consider the unseen and the infinite as an entirely different audience’. Initial entries have been received from around Australia, Brazil, Romania, Thailand and India.
Submissions can be made at www.forevernow.me
