This experimental project brings together diverse perspectives to reconsider our place in the cosmos, featuring contemporary artists working across ancient cosmologies, mythologies, and philosophies, alongside contemporary explorations of astrology, consciousness, planetary thinking, and alternative epistemologies. The exhibition traces the persistent epistemic drive of human civilizations across time and space to venture into otherworlds, while reflecting on the role of contemporary artists as future seekers in continuing this ultimate exploration through new technologies, speculative frameworks, and expanded modes of perception.

The project envisions a future of cosmic unity and interconnectedness while critically reconsidering frameworks such as space colonialism, which imagines the universe as a future frontier for expansion and exploitation, and social-Darwinism, which conceives the cosmos as a competitive “dark forest.” Both remain rooted in Cartesian dualism and its separation of humanity from nature, mind from matter, and the self from the cosmos. Rather than treating the universe as an external territory to be conquered or known from a distance, the exhibition considers forms of relationality and intelligence that complicate these divisions. At a moment when rapidly evolving technologies are destabilizing inherited understandings of humanity’s enduring questions, the artists mobilize alternative ways of knowing, ancient and emergent cosmologies, and artistic experimentation to reopen these questions beyond established epistemological boundaries. Contemporary art thus becomes a site for looking beyond worldly concerns toward celestial connections that transcend time and space, and toward a deeper sense of harmony, interconnectedness, and home.

The exhibition is conceived as a multimedia environment that reenacts, reconsiders, and reimagines existing knowledge and belief systems through these cosmological perspectives. Mobilizing installation, painting, sculpture, moving image, and screen-based works, with an emphasis on topography-based creation and experiential approaches, it constructs a spatial encounter in which different cosmologies and temporalities can coexist, collide, and resonate.

Curatorial proposal developed by gaoyuan (US), Feng-Yi Chu (Taiwan)