Lithuanian Space Agency presents Planet of People at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

The Lithuanian Space Agency (LSA), founded by Julijonas Urbonas, is an organisation that researches space architecture and gravitational aesthetics. The agency is an astro-disciplinary initiative that aims to create a truly extraterrestrial imagination. A think-tank-cum-space-logistics-company, the LSA is researching and developing the poetic logistics of establishing alternative ways of being and imagining together both on and beyond Earth. Acknowledging the cosmos as the site of radical other-worldliness, the agency focuses on how we can get closer to the unearthly while also shifting perspectives on humanity to those of an alien.

Planet of People is an artistic and scientific study into a hypothetical artificial planet made up of human bodies that will be launched at the LSA’s temporary laboratory at the Santa Maria dei Derelitti church in Venice. Planet of People is the LSA’s first extraterrestrial-scale undertaking. The agency’s project presentation in Venice is curated by Jan Boelen, commissioned by Julija Reklaitė, organised by Rupert Centre for Art and Education and presented by Lithuanian Council for Culture.