gold-clad decades ( in space ) during miami art week 2023
A design project benefiting pioneering non-profit internet radio station dublab debuts Space Chairs assembled from vinyl record album packaging at Alcova during Art Basel Miami Beach / Miami Art Week 2023. The exhibition entitled decades ( in space ) commemorates two decades of dublab’s space-making cultivation of global experimentation through community-generated radio. The exhibition particularly unfolds at the Selina Gold Dust Motel, in a room wrapped in sparkling gold sheets for thermal protection in spacecrafts, from December 5th through 10th, 2023. Each room of the motel is being transformed into galleries with select artists shaping the future of design.
decades ( in space ) at Alcova Miami | image © KamranV
displaying a rare quadraphonic spatial vinyl record
The album’s make space kit includes a chair assembled from the album packaging designed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory UX Designer Marijke Jorritsma, Sustainable Experience Designer Daniel Perlin, Architectural Designer John Vieweg, and Arts Technologist KamranV from Cykik, who is also the album’s producer. A one-of-one edition of the record designed with multi-disciplinary artist Dyan Jong and design researcher Rucker Manley has real outer space rocks embedded and will also be on display as a part of the exhibition. In the room, visitors sit on the unique, galaxy-laden chairs while listening to the rare quadraphonic spatial vinyl record, immersing the listening space via four speakers for temporal bliss.
image © KamranV
decades ( in space ) is a non-profit project of 10 songs by 20 musicians on quadraphonic vinyl supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with artists donating works with all proceeds benefiting dublab. Quadraphonic collaborations include: Emily Kokal (Warpaint) + Suzanne Ciani, Shruti Kumar + The Koreatown, Oddity, Dntel (The Postal Service) + Mia Doi Todd, Laura Escudé + Sudan Archives, Alex Lilly + Kolars, Drum, Lace + Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Randy Randall (No Age) + Flula Borg (The Suicide Squad), Beatie Wolfe + Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda, Jeremiah Chiu + Sam Prekop (The Sea and Cake), Daedelus + Molly Lewis (World Champion Whistler). The album is available and immersive via all formats: digital download, streaming (Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, YouTube, etc), radio broadcast, vinyl, and high-resolution Dolby Atmos (Apple Music, Tidal, Amazon HD).
image © Paul Barbera
image © Paul Barbera
image © Paul Barbera
image © Paul Barbera
image © Paul Barbera
project info:
name: decades (in space)
location: Selina Gold Dust Motel, Alcova, Miami | @alcova.milano
program: Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 | @artbasel
project team: KamranV/Cykik, Marijke Jorritsma, Daniel Perlin, John Vieweg, Dyan Jong, Rucker Manley
additional equipment: Aiaiai