Our Place in Space — Welcome Home Hubble

In the video installation Welcome Home Hubble, created by the artists Eleni Boutsika-Palles and Anna Lerchbaumer the boundaries between fact and fiction become blurred. The installation creates a future in which the Hubble has reached the end of its life. The controlled re-entry into the atmosphere and the details and consequences of this mission served as inspiration for this work.

The video installation stages a speculative narrative in which Hubble is shown as a technological pop star. A look into the future, a few years after its re-entry, follows the surviving parts found on the coast of the Vanuatu Islands.  What effects do the fragments have on the site of discovery? What is its economic, cultural and political value?

This installation was created for the Hubble travelling exhibition Our Place in Space in Vienna.