Helmet House
By Alicia Framis
On the moon are fourteen days light and fourteen days night. HELMET HOUSE, 2009 can adjust the light for the hours you need to sleep. The house can become completely dark, or regulate daily light. On fully dark days the solar panels can reflect the sunlight. HELMET HOUSE, 2009 belongs to a collection of houses, which Framis is preparing with architects and astronomers, for daily life on the space. Not as a new utopia, but as an immediate reality. This architectural model develops the possibility of daily life on the moon. A strategy to democratize the Moon.
Now days the space is for military people, and is not alternative for aesthetics; try new aesthetics, and the space can become a democratic place. In other hand, Futurism is past, the future is past, but we want to have a future because is part of our life, our dreams, is about curiosity and challenge. But the future no longer exists, no more ideals, only regression and fear of risks. Society has become conservative. Framis wants, through art, to develop the idea of new futurism, researching other possibilities of live and society with a new futurism. Framis seeks to break with the preconceptions that cinema and television have taught us, because they gave us the idea that our future will be living as in ìStar Treckî or ìStar warsî, although at the end this futures are past, and we have to build up a new futurism, more connected to the current reality. A more realistic approach on cinema could be the film ‘A Woman on the Moon’, from Fritz Lang, is more connected to now days than other films. More over, Framis is not only developing a collection of houses; she is working too in create a fashion collection, domestic items and performances concerning the subject same subject: democratization of the moon.
