online 15 October 2020 - 15 October 2021

As we transition into an online era, Plicnik Space Initiative proposes to test dissonances between physical and virtual spaces. Launched as an open call in June 2020, the project invited artists to propose works to be shown aboard the D02.2 spacecraft with the aim to test ways in which participants would interact with both illusionary spatial constraints and how they would respond to distinct spatial narratives. Monumental in scale, the D02.2 caricatures museums. Each space aboard the craft challenges the functionalities surrounding institutional practices; the Reserve space humorously deconstructs a seamless white cube, and the Dehumidifier and Largescale humidifier – essentially a desert and rainforest – mirror the attempts of art institutions to preserve artworks.

Works by Marc Blazel, Adam Hines-Green, Zhengzhou Huang, Chloe Langlois, Tekla Gedeon, Lara Smithson, Paul Wiersbinski, Jake Laffoley & Lionell Guzman, Jana Kerima Stolzer & Lex Rütten, Ryan Kuo, Lucy Woodhouse, MV Brown, Mi†︎ra, Laura Yuile, Beatrice Vorster & Heyse Ip, Ellie Wyatt & Lucy Hutchinson, Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent, Sangjin Kim, Robert B. Lisek and Charles Stanton-Jones

Concept by Amélie Mckee and Melle Nieling
Design by Amélie Mckee
Web development Melle Nieling
3D modelling Ma Baocheng