Spaceflight Performance · VR · Installation
Living Distance
A wisdom tooth sent to outer space and back, a meditation on death, body, and homeland, carried by a crystalline robotic sculpture.
Living Distance is a fantasy and a mission: a wisdom tooth is sent to outer space and back to Earth again.
Carried by a crystalline robotic sculpture called EBIFA, the tooth becomes a newborn entity in outer space, its performance concerning death, body, and homeland in a world where our science exploration and our spiritual journeys diverge.
It's a three-part work: an outer-space performance aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard, a two-channel video installation, and a VR experience.
The documentary and VR let audiences on the ground travel with the tooth, weightless, spinning, detached from everything we know.
Artist: Xin Liu (slow immediate)
Documentary & VR: Justin Durazzo
Collaborators: Tim Saputo, Naixin Xu
Flight: Blue Origin, New Shepard NS-11
Recognition: Sundance New Frontier, 2020