MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE - Alicia Framis

DATA AND LOCATION – MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE
18 Septiembre 2011 – 15 Octubre 2011
Horario de apertura: Lunes, Miércoles y Viernes: 11.00-18.00 hrs,  Jueves: 12.00-20.00 hrs, Sábado: 10.00-18.00 hrs, Domingo:12.00-18.00 hrs
Dirección: Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal 262 (planta baja de Sprmrkt Specials), Amsterdam. Holanda.
 
DATA AND LOCATION – FULL MOON SYMPOSIUM
8 Octubre 2011 (International Observe the Moon Night)
A symposium with scientists, architects, designers and artists on their ideas, visions and designs for (daily) life on the Moon and in space. Including a Moon Dinner with astronaut cuisine.
Host location: Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Rozenstraat 59, Amsterdam

ALICIA FRAMIS PRESENTS THE MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE FEATURING PRODUCTS AND CONCEPTS THAT WILL REPRESENT FUTURE HUMAN LIFE IN SPACE
For the MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE artists, designers, architects and fashion designers created new concepts and items for living and extreme design. These will be presented in the first shop on Earth with products for life on the moon. All products are unique and made especially for this extraordinary project by participants from the Netherlands and abroad. Visitors can test and buy items, ideas, products, installations, prototypes, and videos that represent future human life in space.

Participants include
Paula Ampuero / Atelier van Lieshout / DUS architects / EDHV / Alicia Framis / Sandra Gnjatovic / Barbara Imhof / John Lonsdale / Maryme-JimmyPaul / Satyendra Pakhalé / Tao Sambolec (with Brian McKenna) / Maria Serret / Sarah van Sonsbeeck (with Susan Bijl) Marina Toeters / Monica Tormell and Staffan Björk / United Nude / Juha van ‘t Zelfde.

MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE is a project initiated by visual artist Alicia Framis. It is a critical platform through which visitors are challenged to think about our future. MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE gives way for a revolution in cross disciplinary thinking about art, architecture and design in order to imagine and create a new life environment. What if we don’t accept the limitations set by the planet we live on? The MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE aims to find new ways of thinking about Earthly problems, and expand our thinking beyond existing modes and values such as recycling and re-enactments. MOON LIFE CONCEPTS STORE prompts to explore a new territory in design, art and architecture through our lunar imaginations instead. The project aims to democratise the moon and most importantly, open discussion about how we want to live in space, what things we will copy from life on Earth and what things we will leave behind.

MOON LIFE CONCEPT STORE was initiated in Shanghai in 2010, and after Amsterdam will travel to various other places including Utrecht, Liverpool and Lille.

Products include:
COMPASS, a compass that always points to Earth, by Paula Ampuero, Maria Serret and Alicia Framis
TABLE WARE, glass and porcelain tableware symbolizing the random bursts of energy on the Moon, isualising the energy of an impact, moon craters, freezing pressure wave by EDHV
FLAT PACK SHOES, a flat-packed lightweight carbon fiber construction to be assembled by customers into a high-heel shoe, by United Nude
MOON ANTHEM, music composition, by Monica Tormell and Staffan Björk
TEETHPHONE, a small sound amplifying device which will enable future generations of humans living on the Moon to listen to sound in vacuum, by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
VERY LOW FREQUENCY FIREPLACE, radio waves are received and transformed into sound, which in turn is used to modulate leds, by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec and Brian McKenna
MICROGRAVITY OBJECT, by Satyendra Pakhalé
MOONDICTIONARY, a 360º concept map, an open verbal-diagram around the concept of moon [mu:n] that shows the relationships among concepts, by Alicia Framis
COLORING BOOK, by Sandra Gnjatovic
MOON VOGUE, a bootleg of Vogue magazine for 2050, by MaryMe-JimmyPaul
MOON DUST, a video around the notion of a sustainable base on the moon, by John Lonsdale
MOONWORLD, a silver jewel that is a nano-representation of the Moon as global cemetery scaled at 1:400,000,0000, by DUS architects
FARADAY BAGS, fashionable bags made out of data-silencing fabric, honouring female astronaut Suni Williams, by Sarah van Sonsbeeck in collaboration with Susan Bijl
HUMAN and KIND, eighteen different garments with different expert-specifications, like most emotionally connected to Earth, most protective, most hygienic, by Marina Toeters
HANDBOOK MOON LIFE, a manual to learn about daily life on the Moon, by Archis Foundation.