Worlds in transit

Together with Super-Collider, we held an event to celebrate the transit of venus. So an assorted group of artists, filmmakers, astronomers, photographers, choreographers and curators came to join us in the remote Swedish wilderness to witness this once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event: the transit of Venus.

For the transit, together with Bastien Erpelding from Umevatoriet (Umeås stella observatory) we create a monument at F31, this monument also acted as a viewing station, so users could look directly at the sun and witness the transit.

From our pristine vantage point amid the forests and fields, we watched as the planet Venus passed between the earth and the sun – its tiny black disk revealing the true scale of the solar system. Their observations and work will form the basis of a publication and exhibition in London opening on 6 June 2013 – one year on from the transit.