This is a nice term for us to imagine and embodied and decentralised performance, that take place locally in physical spaces across the planet, but also online where the online expereinces is both dialogue between spaces, and streamed as a choreographed whole. We call this type of event Conversations Across Space.
# Sound
As sound, we can imagine this “opera” either as an ambient landscape of cosmic proportions, or as a literal operatic performance—extended across space, with voices composited live as we did during the pandemic.
We have the opportunity to compose and perform a Space Opera in May 2026 on the theme of peace. This collaboration could engage groups we worked with during the pandemic, use a strategy similar o that of the Sound Garden performance and work with young people across two related projects (at the RSA and as part of Art for Futeres Lab]].
# Spectacle
In both cases we should sense a feeling of spectacle - a grandness that mirrors the grandness of space. As a hard science fiction, the scope, time travel, and artistic elements invite this spectacle. The final preformance should nto shy away. But how?
# Example As an example of a myth that acts here as provocation we can consider: