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This is an excerpt of 2 tracks from the concept album audio artwork Marsification: A Tale of Planetary Grief. This album tackles the seductive story of leaving Earth for Mars. Across 16 vignettes, Bay Area artists Zara Zimbardo (writer and educator) and Lily Sloane (sound artist and psychotherapist) ask listeners to look inward and face up to their own feelings about colonial space fantasies. Today, the pull of Mars is stronger than ever. NASA, the European Space Agency and India are among those committed to exploring the red planet, while “billionauts” have made their hopes to colonize the red planet explicit. Meanwhile, our own planet is so unstable and our environment so threatened that many people find it easier to imagine moving to another world than to deal with the mess we've made of this one. So how do we challenge this dangerous narrative about humanity's Martian prospects? How can we examine assumptions about the future? And how do we listen properly to the ghosts that haunt the present? You can listen to the full album on Bandcamp or wherever you buy/stream music.
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