Tom Sachs Space Program:
Rare Earths

Deichtorhallen Hamburg

 

This photo series documents the exhibition “SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS” by artist Tom Sachs at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. The exhibition can be visited in the period from September 19, 2021 to April 10, 2022.


The Hall for Contemporary Art, with its 3.200 square meters, has been transformed into an immersive interplanetary landscape; a giant sculptural Gesamtkunstwerk consisting of the bricolage works of the American artist Tom Sachs. This is the fourth exhibition in Sachs’ Space Program, the artist’s thirteen-year artistic exploration of the boundaries of extraterrestrial worlds and human possibilities.

In Space Program: Rare Earths, Sachs’ astronauts are headed to 4-Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth, with one goal: to harvest the protoplanet’s rare earth minerals needed to perpetuate Earth’s addiction to technology. Sachs and his crew have engineered all that is necessary for survival on their mission, from plywood, foam core, screws, hot glue, utilizing diverse and recycled tools of their trade.

Location

Hamburg, Germany

Shot on film

Kodak Portra 400
ECN-2 Processing

TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Welcome Center
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Transubstantiaton
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Indoctrination Desk
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Locker room
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Every Minute Counts
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Passport Desk #6
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Indoctrination Center - Logjam Algorithm | Screw Sorting Smut Rack
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Indoctrination Table
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF)
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Mission Control Center (MCC)
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Launch
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Ignition | Approach | Rover Deployment Sequence | Rescue
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Landing Excursion Module (LEM)
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Ratanarat | Landing Excursion Module (LEM)
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Landing Excursion Module (LEM)
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Moon Flag | Sample Return Station
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Dig Site - The Sun | Gonzales Crater
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Landing Excursion Module (LEM) | Mars Excursion Roving Vehicle (MERV)
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Tea Garden - Ishodoro | Okumachiai
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Tsukubai
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Stupa
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Tea House
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Journeyman Tool Cart
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Microscope | Tools
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Armory For the War on Plywood (AFWOP)
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Vaguum | Mizuya Back-Up Unit
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
Space Program NASA Chairs
TOM SACHS SPACE PROGRAM: RARE EARTHS
RE-EDUCATION CENTER
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