decades (in space) at Art Basel
A design project benefiting pioneering non-profit internet radio station dublab debuts Space Chairs assembled from vinyl record album packaging at Alcova’s art motel during Art Basel’s international art fair in Miami.
This year Alcova’s nomadic event lands at the Selina Gold Dust Motel from December 5th through 10th. Each room of the motel is being transformed into galleries with select artists shaping the future of design.
The project entitled decades ( in space ) commemorates two decades of dublab’s space-making cultivation of global experimentation through community-generated radio. The limited edition copies of the album conceptualize connective space of all kinds. 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 & Arts Technologist KamranV, who is also the album’s producer.
The project’s installation at Alcova Miami is presented in a golden room inspired by outer spacecraft which use gold for thermal protection of the craft through space. In the room attendees 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. 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.
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).
The Standard version of this album includes transparent, green-tinted 12″ vinyl record within a gold, moiré record sleeve, limited to 432 copies for sale.
