CITY SALTS: Epcot
Solo show by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana in the Garage. Curated by Mario Kreuzberg
25 Aug – 8 Oct 2023

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EPCOT
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana
with a text by Jeronim Horvat

‘EPCOT: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow’ reflects on the colonial practices of erasure that endorse a new stage in the industrialization of outer space. The mixed-media installation is informed by fieldwork and social practice in El Campo Pesquero de Playa Bagdad (Mexico), a marginalized community located on the edge of the US-Mexico border that now bears the anxieties arising from the proximity to SpaceX’s launch port in Boca Chica (US). In this paradoxical scenario, a unique case of transboundary sonic violence produced by the engines of SpaceX’s massive spacecraft resonates to impair the body, the biosphere, and the rudimentary architecture of a community whose future now hinges on fantasies unfolding from privatized (inter)planetary-scale infrastructural projects.

Hosted by Mario Kreuzberg at City SALTS