Another Moon, by the South Korean collective Kimchi and Chips, will make another moon appear in the Barcelona sky, a satellite responding to a spectacular technological and climate-aware artifice. This moon is the result of crossing powerful laser beams projected against the night sky to create a three-dimensional shape which can be made out from up to a kilometre away. The beams are powered by solar batteries. In the same way the Moon becomes visible thanks to the light reflected from our Sun, this second moon is possible thanks to the solar energy accumulated during the day and freed at night, a finite and ephemeral energy to awaken awareness of our dependency on energy sources coming from fossil fuels. Another Moon is the culmination of the artistic project “Drawing in the Air”, initiated six years ago as a series of installations combining the theory of relativity, Buddhist philosophy and the contemporary dilemma between image and reality.

The artists wish to thank the kind support of RAG Stiftung, the Arts Council of Korea, LaserAnimation Sollinger, Korean Culture Center and Korean Arts Management Service.

Kimchi and Chips is a Seoul-based art collective founded in 2009 by South Korea’s Mimi Son and England’s Elliot Woods. Their creative practice is based on recognising that the arts, the sciences and philosophy are not distant disciplines which need to be united, but rather which act as alternative maps for the same ground, and that using these maps in tandem makes it easier to navigate that ground. Their work has been presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Somerset House in London, the SXSW Conference and Festivals in Austin, the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, the Zeche Zollverein in Essen and the Resonate festival in Rosmalen. The collective has received distinctions and awards from Ars Electronica, the Media Architecture Biennale, Creative Applications and the specialised digital publication Darc Magazine.