Life on Planet Orsimanirana

“Life on Planet Orsimanirana is an exhibition as a communal living system and a functioning cooperative physical and online radio station which invites you to immerse yourself in an every-colour primordial mud of molecular consciousness, an archive of autonomous reflections, DIY futurist narratives and a pumping funk of organic processes.”
–Jerszy Seymour, Emanuele Braga and Amica Dall

The internationally acclaimed designer Jerszy Seymour joins forces with Amica Dall of the London-based architecture collective Assemble and Emanuele Braga of Macao, the artist and activist group from Milan, to create a fantastic and humorous world in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G). Life on Planet Orsimanirana follows the concept of the “Non-Gesamt Gesamtkunstwerk,” a decentralised generative form of world-building, including work from many international and local collectives, activists, artists and designers. Visitors are invited to simply be there, enjoy, take part in discussions and workshops, build ideas, share them as radio programs, jam funky tunes, get comfortable with the struggle and demand the world they want to live in. Underpinned by the real life activism, occupations, and renegotiations of our rights to property and welfare by Macao, Das Gängeviertel, Park Fiction, Assemble, Rimaflow, Hallo: Festspiele, and the Dirty Art Department, with this project, the MK&G continues to explore new approaches to opening the museum for participation and discourse. Oscillating between exhibition, radio station, workshop and collective performance space, it uses the power of collective imagination to think about new paths and possible answers to the pressing questions of our present.

“With the basic desire to bring an equality and harmony between humans, race, gender, sexuality, non-humans and the environment and foster forms of happiness and spirituality, the project attempts to respond to the social, ecological and existential crises we face today and lay some joyful ground-work to create the world we want on practical, imaginary and symbolic levels.”
–Jerszy Seymour, Emanuele Braga and Amica Dall

Following the generative concept of Life on Planet Orsimanirana, both the exhibition and the radio station—physical and online—set the stage for the main action of the project as a place to meet, discuss and exchange ideas. Visitors are invited to participate in an active program of potential world generation which takes place both in the museum and remotely. It is open for all to contribute.
 

Participating artists and groups
A project by the Jerszy Seymour Design Workshop together with Macao Milano and Assemble London and: Das Gängeviertel, Hallo: Festspiele, The Dirty Art Department, Freies Sender Kombinat, Institute for Radical Imagination, M.Bassy, Park Fiction, HFBK / Studio Experimentelles Design and Jesko Fezer, Saâdane Afif, Balzer Balzer, Davide Belingheri, Charles Benjamin, Baratto & Mouravas, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Veronika Bjarsch, Anaïs Borie, Federica Carenini, Thomas Clerc, Daddies on Acid, Dewar and Gicquel, Victor Delestre, Quentin Dupuy, DVTK, Kitty Maria Ekeren, Jacopo Farina, Eurico Sá Fernandes, Maddalena Fragnito, Andrea Giomi, Biagio Luca Intorrella, Alban Karsten, Tom Kemp, KillASon, Reinier Kranendonk, Selma Köran, Christopher Leslie Lawrence, Lost DAD Radio, Giulia Luculli, Mary Maggic, Manuela Gama Malcher, Marcell Mars, Aaron McLaughlin, David Haack Monberg, Luca Mucci, Muschi Muschi, OBOT, Morph, New Day Gallery, Francesco Pappagallo, Parasite 2.0, Papiripar Festival, Gianmaria Di Pasquale, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Alexandra Philips, Queerlab Transfemminista, Carsten Rabe, Anna Reutinger, Rimaflow, Octave Rimbert-Rivière, Zoe Romano, Leonardo Ruvolo, Daniele Salvini, Saturnalia Collective, Janne Schimmel, Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt, Jeremy Shaw, Tomasz Skibicki, Starstyling, Alisa Tsybina, Ursina Tossi, Touche Touche, Roxana Cerön Vergani, Viola Vitali, Massive Attack x Young Fathers and many others.

Curated by Emanuele Braga, Amica Dall and Jerszy Seymour together with Dennis Conrad and Luisa Hilmer at MK&G. Supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) and the Justus Brinckmann Gesellschaft.

Press contact 
Michaela Hille/Lena Drobig, presse@mkg-hamburg.de / T +49 40 428134-800/-801

*Please note that opening times might be subject to change due to current corona regulations.*