Doppelgängers3 draws on the experience of diasporas to challenge the commercialisation of the moon.Through encounters with doppelgängers and meetings with scientists, visionaries and cultural inventors, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and her doppelgängers offer an experimental vision and template for a future diaspora beyond Earth. How will human inhabitants of the moon understand origin, borders and nations? We now live in a world of space tourism, where 'colonizing' the moon has become a new reality. Can the experiences of the past help us imagine a future of space that is free from the traumas we are encountering on Earth? Can we avoid destruction when moving to alien territories? Through role-play, magic, encounters with doppelgängers and meetings with an extensive range of scientists, visionaries and cultural inventors, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian and her doppelgängers offer an experimental vision and template for a future diaspora beyond Earth. To prepare for this new utopian moon society, the doppelgängers go as close to the Moon as possible on Earth. They get locked in a deep cave in Spain, where astronauts are trained to live in close quarters and to explore the unpredictable and the unknown. But things do not go according to plan... A visual, sonic experience with music by Pussy Riot,Colin Self, Mirrored Fatality and Asmodessa.
—Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian