"Natural Body Water"
"He worked with scientists at Carnegie Mellon and Yale Universities to create a rover that inhabits the space and transmits information about itself and its surroundings to the live-feed data command center outside, as well as receives instructions from the center. The rover, named Robbie after Robert L. Lawrence, the first African-American astronaut killed during training, is considered by the artist to be an an autonomous being navigating this lonely landscape."
Tavares Strachan creates technological installations that deal public issues like water and space. The first photo shows a machine that distilled his urine into water (which is being offered in the cooler). I imagine many people bypassed the opportunity, but this only further comments on people's obsession with purity. "Where Do We Go From Here" addresses the obsession with knowing foreign spaces. Naming it after the first African astronaut killed during training could also be a remark on how desperate or absurd such projects can be- deathly but necessary to satisfy the urge for exploration.
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