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For this project, I wanted to create
a site-specific installation that only exists in the celestial
universe. To do so, I contacted a company that sells unnamed
stars. I then gave the company the exact coordinates for six
unnamed stars I wanted to name and own. The company then sent
me certificates for each star with the coordinates I provided
for each star, what I named each star, and a guarantee that
each star is copyrighted under the United States government.
I chose these six unnamed stars to create my own constellation
of a television set. I created this constellation to conflict
with the other existing constellations that were once worshipped
as gods and goddesses. To remark upon what we as a civilization
worship and believe in now as opposed to what the heavens
once meant to civilizations in ages past.
I also made a video of my constellation being observed in
a planetarium to further express this point. Through the creation
of my constellation as well as the planetarium video, I wanted
to comment upon our need in this current age to name and claim
everything. For, even though I have attached the name "Television"
to a grouping of stars, I can never truly own those stars,
those stars will continue to shine long after I am gone.
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