Interplanetary Species Society
1:1 Model / Observatory
Title | Interplanetary Species Society
Concept | Jonas Staal
Commisioned by | Studio Jonas Staal
Type | 1:1 Model / Observatory (Assembly)
Date | 13-25 August 2019
Location | Reaktorhallen, Stockholm, Sweden
Architecture | Paul Kuipers
Graphic Design | Remco van Bladel
Production Coordinator | Younes Bouadi
Construction | Bouwko Landstra and Team
Print | RIWI ColloType
Photography | Ricard Estay
Images process | Paul Kuipers
Text | Jonas Staal
Interplanetary Species Society
Interplanetary Species Society (ISS) consists of a large-scale installation in the form of an alternative biosphere in the Reaktorhallen, the former underground nuclear facility of Stockholm. The biosphere contains assemblies of humans, ammonites, meteorites and proletarian plantae, exploring new forms of comradeship between human, non-human, and more-than-human agents.
Entering the age in which humans will become an interplanetary species, ISS challenged the neocolonial and extractivist logics at play in the corporate terraforming endeavors of Space X or Trump’s export of ultranationalist in the form of a new ‘Space Army.’ Instead, the alternative biosphere of the ISS calls to reject the notion of space colonization in favor of space cooperation and proposes human species to consider themselves as guestsinstead of pioneers. Situated twenty-five meters underground, the ISS literally turns into our planet to reflect on what our future as an interplanetary species could and should be. As such, ISS proposes the biosphere as a space to train new forms of intra-planetary and interplanetary alliances.
Reaktorhalle, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Reaktorhalle, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
25 meter underground