https://josephpopper.net Joseph Popper Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:25:58 +0000 https://josephpopper.net en https://josephpopper.net/Line-Drawings Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:27:34 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/Line-Drawings ︎︎︎ Line Drawings Work 2025HD video, sound3 mins 22 secs Line Drawings traces a recurring visual theme across multiple images of space exploration. The video essay joins together materials from European Space Agency media—dating from the 1980s to today—with a database of science fiction films partly or wholly set on the Moon. As the work unfolds, a series of lines reach for, encircle, enclose, divide, and tether the Moon in multiplying gestures of lunar relation. Amid the current global race to return to Earth’s natural satellite, it aims to amplify a tension found along the fine lines separating exploration from exploitation.&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b791eb8ad4c4b39245a3cbe065e5ad7ab07c6933dedd50f8dda68a22f4b57c10/LD_still_03.jpg" data-mid="226581460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b791eb8ad4c4b39245a3cbe065e5ad7ab07c6933dedd50f8dda68a22f4b57c10/LD_still_03.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5c1bfeb1b8f78a5a2687130d17b81d2076fd7ffd52f5292c184fd6cf22db482/Lines_new_still_01.jpg" data-mid="237928928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5c1bfeb1b8f78a5a2687130d17b81d2076fd7ffd52f5292c184fd6cf22db482/Lines_new_still_01.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5dd65553c050a3aa41ac8f0a2a62ef6cf4d2ad86e42f283a593b57517ca4e677/Lines_new_still_10.jpg" data-mid="238191851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5dd65553c050a3aa41ac8f0a2a62ef6cf4d2ad86e42f283a593b57517ca4e677/Lines_new_still_10.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea5dc7a38016495cb8eb290d3e57d01504e2377b4540fb6be4ed35793b281d5f/LD_still_14.jpg" data-mid="226581435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea5dc7a38016495cb8eb290d3e57d01504e2377b4540fb6be4ed35793b281d5f/LD_still_14.jpg" /> Selected stills from Line Drawings https://josephpopper.net/Elsewhere Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:38:41 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/Elsewhere ︎︎︎ Elsewhere Work 2017HD, colour, sound 4 mins 41 secs &nbsp; Elsewhere responds to the promise of virtual reality to experience new worlds as new characters in new bodies. The work imagines a fall from one reality into another, and a transition between physical and virtual senses of presence. A man stumbles and wades alone through a country stream. He appears out of place, his grey city clothes in contrast with the surrounding green landscape. On his face rest a pair of glasses with a lens conspicuously missing. He ignores the world around him, absorbed in the search for a means to escape it—to return to somewhere else and to be someone else.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c26c449fba9aae8db9c9a2bcf65832e46b4cd192d0edabc83b634bd1eb8fb390/JPopper_E_02.jpg" data-mid="155145528" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c26c449fba9aae8db9c9a2bcf65832e46b4cd192d0edabc83b634bd1eb8fb390/JPopper_E_02.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a98ae7fd8e0bcc6394d5c2c151edbd74bd9463ebd8c77e9df810028f5cfd6ea9/JPopper_E_01.jpg" data-mid="155145527" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a98ae7fd8e0bcc6394d5c2c151edbd74bd9463ebd8c77e9df810028f5cfd6ea9/JPopper_E_01.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05f59f1730e24c8aa5055b22b0975ace35103df4731ec7ded73e91262ec7eacb/JPopper_E_03.jpg" data-mid="155145529" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Stills from &quot;Elsewhere&quot;" data-caption="Stills from &quot;Elsewhere&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05f59f1730e24c8aa5055b22b0975ace35103df4731ec7ded73e91262ec7eacb/JPopper_E_03.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f4dcc838552b522af4b4abe77e3bc5b7b1639b8168f075be5902db0cece4689/JPopper_E_04.jpg" data-mid="155145530" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Above: Selected stills from &quot;Elsewhere&quot;" data-caption="Above: Selected stills from &quot;Elsewhere&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f4dcc838552b522af4b4abe77e3bc5b7b1639b8168f075be5902db0cece4689/JPopper_E_04.jpg" /> https://josephpopper.net/In-Straight-Circles Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:44:27 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/In-Straight-Circles ︎︎︎ In Straight Circles Work 2020HD video, sound 6 mins 15 secs In Straight Circles traces the path of an imaginary infrastructure through a history of science fiction and speculative science film. After Wernher von Braun, chief Apollo engineer, first popularised the design in the early 1950s, the wheel-shaped space station continues to rotate in imagery from the Space Age to the present. Whether imagined as an intermediary gateway to exploring distant planets, or as a floating space settlement housing thousands of people, the great wheel remains a visual icon at the heart of future visions for human expansion into outer space. <img width="1280" height="576" width_o="1280" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b7103e5bf2e0f90400d9a2b2b271805c5376f3381f574c35970934d13513202/ISC_02.jpg" data-mid="160072898" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b7103e5bf2e0f90400d9a2b2b271805c5376f3381f574c35970934d13513202/ISC_02.jpg" /><img width="1280" height="576" width_o="1280" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b5166f0580610617ca94131ff529799385e6ae43040acacdb4927bc79d72eb8/ISC_03.jpg" data-mid="160072899" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b5166f0580610617ca94131ff529799385e6ae43040acacdb4927bc79d72eb8/ISC_03.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="576" width_o="1280" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/874e265be99ddf822f21dc2d425dbe448da00ae5caa92998287cc8156bc607e7/ISC_04.jpg" data-mid="160072900" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/874e265be99ddf822f21dc2d425dbe448da00ae5caa92998287cc8156bc607e7/ISC_04.jpg" /><img width="1280" height="576" width_o="1280" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edc5c7afd13071a77b7a2a3cb400cf38852d00e85b68bcd5339594b75de24279/ISC_05.jpg" data-mid="160072901" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edc5c7afd13071a77b7a2a3cb400cf38852d00e85b68bcd5339594b75de24279/ISC_05.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="576" width_o="1280" height_o="576" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ecd6d246106e2f7a084eb1e51e464a0d37feba6a535a33c10897b13c44a493aa/ISC_06.jpg" data-mid="160072902" border="0" data-no-zoom alt="Above // Selected stills from &quot;In Straight Circles&quot;" data-caption="Above // Selected stills from &quot;In Straight Circles&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ecd6d246106e2f7a084eb1e51e464a0d37feba6a535a33c10897b13c44a493aa/ISC_06.jpg" /> Film Sources: Gog (1954), Conquest of Space (1955), Man and the Moon (1955), Mutiny in Outer Space (1965), War Between The Planets (1966), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Green Slime (1968), Solaris (1972), NASA - Space Colonisation (1975), PBS Nova - The Final Frontier (1978), Elysium (2013). https://josephpopper.net/Staging-Wilderness Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:25:58 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/Staging-Wilderness ︎︎︎ Staging Wilderness Work 2026HD video, sound3 mins 36 secs This short video essay considers the ways in which leading space industry actors stage parts of the planet as "wilderness," and speaks to ethnographies that engage with the uneven, unjust, and earthly terrains which certain outer space activities are embedded within.&nbsp;It joins archival and contemporary imagery from the European Spaceport in French Guiana with footage of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert—pairing distinct landscapes which have been framed by selective perspectives and subjected to violent experiments.&nbsp; The video departs from the phrase "rumble in the jungle," used by a broadcaster on an Arianespace livestream, as they described the Ariane 6 rocket launching from the spaceport. From here, the audiovisual juxtapositions aim to collide such ambivalent gestures of power with the wider social and environmental ramifications of the projects they help to stabilise.<img width="1902" height="1070" width_o="1902" height_o="1070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/862da6ee0ba99358b9ca178295682ae3009b79f8e2898f226fda5f73ed2e751b/SW_thmb_02.jpg" data-mid="245266141" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/862da6ee0ba99358b9ca178295682ae3009b79f8e2898f226fda5f73ed2e751b/SW_thmb_02.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e991324a9f036410059200086ad130acc04004db38c415e576b4f65884f1394d/SW_thmb_04.jpg" data-mid="245266144" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e991324a9f036410059200086ad130acc04004db38c415e576b4f65884f1394d/SW_thmb_04.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/131bc4bbeeab1d906f50d1af8b69f824fd7787c39060b09a83678990a93868db/SW_thmb_08.jpg" data-mid="245266148" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/131bc4bbeeab1d906f50d1af8b69f824fd7787c39060b09a83678990a93868db/SW_thmb_08.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed08765edc1aeeab02ae0e6c4f558c5f7499209923afa58be23a853ec6053b7d/SW_thmb_07.jpg" data-mid="245266147" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed08765edc1aeeab02ae0e6c4f558c5f7499209923afa58be23a853ec6053b7d/SW_thmb_07.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d962c5b188e9d9ec7b1cb6c5ffc12b870683d7669fdca6b972ebaecefc99c834/SW_thmb_09.jpg" data-mid="245266149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d962c5b188e9d9ec7b1cb6c5ffc12b870683d7669fdca6b972ebaecefc99c834/SW_thmb_09.jpg" /> Selected stills from Staging Wilderness (2026) https://josephpopper.net/The-One-Way-Ticket Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:44:21 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/The-One-Way-Ticket ︎︎︎ The One-Way Ticket Work 2012HD video, sound 4 mins 56 secs Mixed-Media Installation 2.2 x 2.2 x 4.8m (H x W x D) The One-Way Ticket (2012) Film The One-Way Ticket explores the idea of sending one person on a one-way trip to outer space. Not coming back opens up an exceptional scenario, so far unprecedented in the history of human space travel. The project focuses on the experience of a lone astronaut and responds to research into human factors particular to a one-way mission. In parallel with this research ran a production of props, contraptions and sets made for exploring the scenario through film. The project works are a short film, a space capsule installation and a map of the mission’s path. The film describes a series of episodes transmitted from aboard the traveling spacecraft. The map plots key milestones along the journey that reaches beyond Mars. Based along this path, the film episodes describe the experience of being in space and also some of the unique psychological phenomena that could occur on a one-way trip, such as losing sight of Earth for the last time.&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f0cd93aeaf0ad9cd3925333db43a5fdbb4644156acde24f5b7bfcde4f906137/Joseph_Popper_04.jpg" data-mid="159227836" border="0" alt="Selected film stills" data-caption="Selected film stills" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f0cd93aeaf0ad9cd3925333db43a5fdbb4644156acde24f5b7bfcde4f906137/Joseph_Popper_04.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a91019697c3d8ab9ffe1a7f8831214a2b14ea2467636076bcc8fa85cab5c96a/jpopper_TOWT_04.jpg" data-mid="159227837" border="0" alt="Selected film stills" data-caption="Selected film stills" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a91019697c3d8ab9ffe1a7f8831214a2b14ea2467636076bcc8fa85cab5c96a/jpopper_TOWT_04.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92006fa08b745c1d33ea21196bce1e0aa1e5d699f7744195d1c8186119c55011/Still02.jpg" data-mid="159227838" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Selected film stills" data-caption="Selected film stills" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92006fa08b745c1d33ea21196bce1e0aa1e5d699f7744195d1c8186119c55011/Still02.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/058f3d73ab02702bcc8d9bf7c8809314ffe89963f603f3c058553b424c133679/jpopper_TOWT_02.jpg" data-mid="159227835" border="0" alt="Selected film stills" data-caption="Selected film stills" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/058f3d73ab02702bcc8d9bf7c8809314ffe89963f603f3c058553b424c133679/jpopper_TOWT_02.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="664" width_o="1000" height_o="664" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/952746f7217c792255b793caff313752116a6b456b703ab3ee17e652752824a2/image-asset-2.jpeg" data-mid="159227832" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="The One-Way Ticket installed at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London, 2013" data-caption="The One-Way Ticket installed at the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in London, 2013" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/952746f7217c792255b793caff313752116a6b456b703ab3ee17e652752824a2/image-asset-2.jpeg" /> <img width="2500" height="1768" width_o="2500" height_o="1768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d84dda7aa65a80887f4663899cfc6af0e732d777b1ea41706f6347922f370c13/image-asset.png" data-mid="159227831" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Mission Trajectory Map (A2 Lithographic print with planet stickers)" data-caption="Mission Trajectory Map (A2 Lithographic print with planet stickers)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d84dda7aa65a80887f4663899cfc6af0e732d777b1ea41706f6347922f370c13/image-asset.png" /> <img width="1200" height="900" width_o="1200" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89c998944b619dd285e85e8fcca703841438c69dcb42d1f00f16ef6b2873b0b5/image-asset.jpeg" data-mid="159227834" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Space Capsule: Interior detail (Photo: Colin Davidson)" data-caption="Space Capsule: Interior detail (Photo: Colin Davidson)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89c998944b619dd285e85e8fcca703841438c69dcb42d1f00f16ef6b2873b0b5/image-asset.jpeg" /> <img width="1025" height="1000" width_o="1025" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f94779f2c5d2b5e045db081013b1216328de646fe8d0ab521d20c5821c99c95d/image-asset-3.jpeg" data-mid="159227830" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="The One-Way Ticket installed at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, 2014 (Photo: Colin Davidson)" data-caption="The One-Way Ticket installed at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, 2014 (Photo: Colin Davidson)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f94779f2c5d2b5e045db081013b1216328de646fe8d0ab521d20c5821c99c95d/image-asset-3.jpeg" /> https://josephpopper.net/The-Same-Face Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:24:56 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/The-Same-Face ︎︎︎ The Same Face Work 2015 Mixed media installation 2.4 x 2.4 x 2m (W x H x D) HOUSE 2015 and Lighthouse co-commission The Regency Town House Brunswick Square, Hove <img width="5100" height="3354" width_o="5100" height_o="3354" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dee2b703cc36a5103e67406081647ae01f1c68093f5999f7c8dbb39614457cf0/TSF_02_Hi_Res_V2.jpg" data-mid="162126379" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dee2b703cc36a5103e67406081647ae01f1c68093f5999f7c8dbb39614457cf0/TSF_02_Hi_Res_V2.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="1971" width_o="3000" height_o="1971" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5215b37a54ace4f7ee8b3a62dca92fc2be6ae4889dab0f4899f64c51e0252910/JP_THE_SAME_FACE_NEW_PRESS.jpg" data-mid="162126995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5215b37a54ace4f7ee8b3a62dca92fc2be6ae4889dab0f4899f64c51e0252910/JP_THE_SAME_FACE_NEW_PRESS.jpg" /> <img width="6144" height="4081" width_o="6144" height_o="4081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e3ac65ed7dfe536835156985a58f556c5f1c0dc8be22e2608696228e1872083/TSF_LGL_HIRES_01.jpg" data-mid="162126596" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e3ac65ed7dfe536835156985a58f556c5f1c0dc8be22e2608696228e1872083/TSF_LGL_HIRES_01.jpg" /> The Same Face is a 1:1 scale set of a drone command centre. The installation plays upon the uneasy similarities found between handmade, hobby flight simulators and actual drone control rooms, where only outside these spaces does the disparity of their potential for destruction become apparent. Inside, among the video monitors and various consoles, a labour of love and an act of war share the same face. Three video monitors illuminate the room, displaying on-board camera footage of three contrasting landscapes imagined from above. The Grand Hotel in Brighton features along with Shoreham airfield and an unnamed jungle terrain. Drones exemplify how technology has joined the fighter pilot with a wider global audience in a remote viewing of conflict, where their absence from the sky is mediated by instruments and imagery. The distance from the pilot to the frontline also mirrors the distance from the model maker to their handmade worlds. The set and the imagery together further suggest how aspects of modern warfare closely resemble a video game experience, where the edges of the real and virtual blur in transmissions of animated pixels.&nbsp; <img width="956" height="720" width_o="956" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/570552a8f0f0c43751ea56110f25c5e57288124a1e30074cb45ca23953ee1ad9/SameFace_still1.jpg" data-mid="164886073" border="0" alt="Stills from the video monitors" data-caption="Stills from the video monitors" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/570552a8f0f0c43751ea56110f25c5e57288124a1e30074cb45ca23953ee1ad9/SameFace_still1.jpg" /> <img width="956" height="720" width_o="956" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2984d4e4d309ea81523dcfca721cc5e01603438bfede9dc0028968c655fafee6/SameFace_still2.jpg" data-mid="164886074" border="0" alt="Stills from the video monitors" data-caption="Stills from the video monitors" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/2984d4e4d309ea81523dcfca721cc5e01603438bfede9dc0028968c655fafee6/SameFace_still2.jpg" /> <img width="956" height="720" width_o="956" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8dc37a1a76d89a48c9f30a4fff7b5356ee4733c742a2f63b4d6592595e15b50/SameFace_still3.jpg" data-mid="164886075" border="0" alt="Stills from the video monitors" data-caption="Stills from the video monitors" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/d8dc37a1a76d89a48c9f30a4fff7b5356ee4733c742a2f63b4d6592595e15b50/SameFace_still3.jpg" /> <img width="956" height="720" width_o="956" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c24106f19ae87677230241f986e5da757c1a492326297dc211b8e1f3f8b2a16/SameFace_still4.jpg" data-mid="164886076" border="0" alt="Stills from the video monitors" data-caption="Stills from the video monitors" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/5c24106f19ae87677230241f986e5da757c1a492326297dc211b8e1f3f8b2a16/SameFace_still4.jpg" /> <img width="956" height="720" width_o="956" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a47de997c9499ee406342caae54d2da1d3ecb44aca9ba62f5e3a5c563658be1/SameFace_still6.jpg" data-mid="164886078" border="0" alt="Stills from the video monitors" data-caption="Stills from the video monitors" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/6a47de997c9499ee406342caae54d2da1d3ecb44aca9ba62f5e3a5c563658be1/SameFace_still6.jpg" /> <img width="956" height="720" width_o="956" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f804d8008d1677187c10d4496265aa1e2646a2687844b6272e8fdc8f22eeb9b9/SameFace_still5.jpg" data-mid="164886077" border="0" alt="Stills from the video monitors" data-caption="Stills from the video monitors" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/956/i/f804d8008d1677187c10d4496265aa1e2646a2687844b6272e8fdc8f22eeb9b9/SameFace_still5.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3354" width_o="5100" height_o="3354" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/069a2197a7b6ff6b0d2c4f6c2b76e1ba366c4c13d8f295eaba74cafae6dd0296/TSF_03_Hi_Res_V1.jpg" data-mid="162126560" border="0" alt="Installation in The Regency Town House, Brunswick Square, Hove" data-caption="Installation in The Regency Town House, Brunswick Square, Hove" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/069a2197a7b6ff6b0d2c4f6c2b76e1ba366c4c13d8f295eaba74cafae6dd0296/TSF_03_Hi_Res_V1.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1905fe3349afa650f5ca60df74d51c1aa236280e00035a75a91fc93c519c4e3f/TSF_04_Hi_Res_V1.jpg" data-mid="162126649" border="0" alt="Installation detail" data-caption="Installation detail" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1905fe3349afa650f5ca60df74d51c1aa236280e00035a75a91fc93c519c4e3f/TSF_04_Hi_Res_V1.jpg" /> <img width="6144" height="4081" width_o="6144" height_o="4081" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9e3ac65ed7dfe536835156985a58f556c5f1c0dc8be22e2608696228e1872083/TSF_LGL_HIRES_01.jpg" data-mid="162126596" border="0" alt="Installation for the A&eacute;roports / Ville-Monde exhibition at La Ga&icirc;t&eacute; Lyrique, Paris" data-caption="Installation for the Aéroports / Ville-Monde exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9e3ac65ed7dfe536835156985a58f556c5f1c0dc8be22e2608696228e1872083/TSF_LGL_HIRES_01.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="1971" width_o="3000" height_o="1971" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a10966924ed2c912cf9a92d946c183b51f5317a025299a19fe0c81ed7cb3822b/JP_THE_SAME_FACE_NEW_PRESS.jpg" data-mid="162126820" border="0" alt="Installation detail" data-caption="Installation detail" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a10966924ed2c912cf9a92d946c183b51f5317a025299a19fe0c81ed7cb3822b/JP_THE_SAME_FACE_NEW_PRESS.jpg" /> <img width="5100" height="3354" width_o="5100" height_o="3354" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dee2b703cc36a5103e67406081647ae01f1c68093f5999f7c8dbb39614457cf0/TSF_02_Hi_Res_V2.jpg" data-mid="162126379" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Installation in The Regency Town House, Brunswick Square, Hove" data-caption="Installation in The Regency Town House, Brunswick Square, Hove" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dee2b703cc36a5103e67406081647ae01f1c68093f5999f7c8dbb39614457cf0/TSF_02_Hi_Res_V2.jpg" /> https://josephpopper.net/Clear-Ideas Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:31:59 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/Clear-Ideas ︎︎︎ Clear Ideas Work 2019 HD video, sound 2 mins 25 secs Clear Ideas is a found footage work made by isolating landscapes from two science fiction films. Both films were shot on the island of Lanzarote, which plays a colonised Mars (left) and an apocalyptic Earth (right). Over the otherworldly terrains, a voice projects the words of private spaceflight industry leaders into the wind. The imagery and words collage dreams of spaceflight with nightmares of earthly collapse—a tension played upon in the visions of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others. Here, Lanzarote becomes the stage, an analogue site where human progress and catastrophe are imagined in the same place.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2c3d3ca947e0537a5008a9f152b94341d7912c0b0f65e4a90a9f6fae3ab37bd/Clear_Ideas_01.jpeg" data-mid="156592765" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2c3d3ca947e0537a5008a9f152b94341d7912c0b0f65e4a90a9f6fae3ab37bd/Clear_Ideas_01.jpeg" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10f6f4fc002659c8819b78fd0121233ce4993119e96215fdc23e29b0e777094c/CI_08_edit.jpg" data-mid="167935070" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10f6f4fc002659c8819b78fd0121233ce4993119e96215fdc23e29b0e777094c/CI_08_edit.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7d9c4f40363ff815204bd4261f7654abf267fb8d8aee5ca2cd8d5f28f7919af/CI_14_edit.jpg" data-mid="167935449" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7d9c4f40363ff815204bd4261f7654abf267fb8d8aee5ca2cd8d5f28f7919af/CI_14_edit.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="720" width_o="1280" height_o="720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2e57c26a7d0895224f1c2bfc7ff02782886064b759c5cad8840172eaa58d8110/Clear_Ideas_02.png" data-mid="156592766" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Above: Selected stills from &quot;Clear Ideas&quot;" data-caption="Above: Selected stills from &quot;Clear Ideas&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2e57c26a7d0895224f1c2bfc7ff02782886064b759c5cad8840172eaa58d8110/Clear_Ideas_02.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/472687e4b2a32b7df6302ce6dfe1e306f17a0ebf466277d849d53678f974f765/Clear_Ideas_03.jpeg" data-mid="156592767" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" alt="Installation for &quot;In the middle of it&quot; at Basel Academy of Art and Design Academy FHNW" data-caption="Installation for &quot;In the middle of it&quot; at Basel Academy of Art and Design Academy FHNW" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/472687e4b2a32b7df6302ce6dfe1e306f17a0ebf466277d849d53678f974f765/Clear_Ideas_03.jpeg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4afe3cfc096daced8e37cbb54b12de8d95a0ddc0830e3d256c0b72d7ac208fc/jpopper_openstudio_05a_web.jpg" data-mid="167935005" border="0" alt="Installation for &quot;In the middle of it&quot; at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW" data-caption="Installation for &quot;In the middle of it&quot; at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4afe3cfc096daced8e37cbb54b12de8d95a0ddc0830e3d256c0b72d7ac208fc/jpopper_openstudio_05a_web.jpg" /> https://josephpopper.net/Into-Orbit Fri, 21 Oct 2022 14:39:07 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/Into-Orbit ︎︎︎ Into OrbitWork 2011 HD video, sound 2 mins 28 secs &nbsp;&nbsp; An aspiring astronaut attempts to experience outer space in an urban playground. From a running start, the park carousel is transformed into a centrifuge and transports the astronaut somewhere far away from his humble surroundings.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2d97e5155549e40b71bfd7b3072453cf6bf27b35f0db517468eb9d5af426950/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_05_copy.jpg" data-mid="156593027" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2d97e5155549e40b71bfd7b3072453cf6bf27b35f0db517468eb9d5af426950/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_05_copy.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb0c9e2f55b0be00a6b1d5e3e9048ec467e45bbe1902b5eeb9f47af4dc063a40/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_01.jpg" data-mid="156593023" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb0c9e2f55b0be00a6b1d5e3e9048ec467e45bbe1902b5eeb9f47af4dc063a40/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_01.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e39035e50f11c8be12f3460daf1b0b71e214b1efdeff71b4a31f26abd4b787d1/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_02.jpg" data-mid="156593024" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e39035e50f11c8be12f3460daf1b0b71e214b1efdeff71b4a31f26abd4b787d1/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_02.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c32535f1c2fc64df1334b4d1d9d9b9e99665a941a129df1e349931f06c05ed5b/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_04_copy.jpg" data-mid="156593026" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c32535f1c2fc64df1334b4d1d9d9b9e99665a941a129df1e349931f06c05ed5b/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_04_copy.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3700b4db5369d36ebf0280921a46c168721c2f74d42b13866f951a120897007a/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_03.jpg" data-mid="156593025" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3700b4db5369d36ebf0280921a46c168721c2f74d42b13866f951a120897007a/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_03.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85ac6aa68998b853bffcd6930216bd8856cb92b1a1d2b8b9c10491888ca85b61/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_07_copy.jpg" data-mid="156593029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85ac6aa68998b853bffcd6930216bd8856cb92b1a1d2b8b9c10491888ca85b61/POPPER_INTO_ORBIT_07_copy.jpg" /> https://josephpopper.net/Columbus Thu, 24 Nov 2022 15:32:33 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/Columbus ︎︎︎ Columbus Work 2020 HD video, sound 2 mins 40 secs &nbsp;&nbsp; Columbus is a short film that explores imagining life in extreme environments through cinematic and other forms of production. In doing so, it responds to the settler myth—embodied by historical figures such as Christopher Columbus and Robinson Crusoe—that further stabilises the vision of outer space as the natural and necessary destination for the progress of humankind. The film itself is a montage of filmed and found footage, where otherworldly landscapes reframe the artificial environment of the botanical gardens as an analogue for a habitat on another planet.&nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f48132dbd7952bcbe5d83be133b8ae4f454eed4d3078382e970f5275ace49328/Columbus_20.jpg" data-mid="160072471" border="0" data-scale="85" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f48132dbd7952bcbe5d83be133b8ae4f454eed4d3078382e970f5275ace49328/Columbus_20.jpg" /> &nbsp; The three primary film sources are original footage from the University of Basel botanical gardens, found camera-phone video from a region in Sumatra affected by rainforest fire, and the 1964 science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars, directed by Byron Haskin. The work plays upon visual associations in colliding fragments of the different films together. A greenhouse is animated with the voice of a Crusoe character, while roadside imagery imbue Martian landscapes with a sense of mundanity. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be1021d06fb707f448ca10cccbc0204a87bbcb81c17ddd9c2a1e8942df52f9af/Columbus_15_2.jpg" data-mid="160072468" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be1021d06fb707f448ca10cccbc0204a87bbcb81c17ddd9c2a1e8942df52f9af/Columbus_15_2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ecc7f85a190f7b5a3837ed72252be3219cbc15f8689772301f16fe7b2e23e2d/Columbus_01_2.jpg" data-mid="160072465" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ecc7f85a190f7b5a3837ed72252be3219cbc15f8689772301f16fe7b2e23e2d/Columbus_01_2.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cbd7cfdb1ad369f5b02f2668a3be1974e3329fd8922a113b2205eb5fdfc3eb70/Columbus_16.jpg" data-mid="160072469" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cbd7cfdb1ad369f5b02f2668a3be1974e3329fd8922a113b2205eb5fdfc3eb70/Columbus_16.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/386c0176479c80fc953f559a6d81c241fcfc890a140434fcadd60be6ce309142/Columbus_17_2.jpg" data-mid="160072508" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/386c0176479c80fc953f559a6d81c241fcfc890a140434fcadd60be6ce309142/Columbus_17_2.jpg" /> https://josephpopper.net/The-Lonely-Ones Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:45:08 +0000 Joseph Popper https://josephpopper.net/The-Lonely-Ones ︎︎︎ The Lonely Ones Work 2023HD video, sound 3 mins 13 secs &nbsp; The Lonely Ones reimagines a short story by author Ray Bradbury, which describes the first human settlers on Mars and their shared experiences. Bradbury’s words reframe found footage shot by residents of the San Francisco Bay Area on the 9th of September 2020, when enormous amounts of wildfire smoke changed the colour of the sky to otherworldly orange hues. By joining a science fiction text together with collective documentation of an extreme weather event, the work envisions the Bay Area as an outer space analogue. Facing the current and projected effects of climate change, along with concerted efforts by leading space industry actors to build off-world futures, it responds to architect Buckminster Fuller’s idea that “we are already in space” and questions what it means to experience Earth—through human eyes—as an increasingly alien planet.&nbsp;<img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/839496782d1b1b221a1d2a64f6eda7d1d451c31a7eabb1a452443bb6123cbc40/Settlers_001.jpg" data-mid="213144318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/839496782d1b1b221a1d2a64f6eda7d1d451c31a7eabb1a452443bb6123cbc40/Settlers_001.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94d5160c3970b39941d759960c6b866c3f69a27f2b671e7222bcafbe85c0dba2/Settlers_003.jpg" data-mid="213144331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94d5160c3970b39941d759960c6b866c3f69a27f2b671e7222bcafbe85c0dba2/Settlers_003.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a36800bb584f28edd766cc5d8dd13d8de8d1f4d766fbbad6af0906e4b0c60fe0/Settlers_002.jpg" data-mid="213144333" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a36800bb584f28edd766cc5d8dd13d8de8d1f4d766fbbad6af0906e4b0c60fe0/Settlers_002.jpg" /> Selected stills from The Lonely Ones