Commonly, these two are used as lines of argumentation in the public discourse. Proponents tend to carefully hold them separate, depending on wether a public of tax payers or potential investors are addressed. This Janus-faced behavior linked with the defiances and eccentricity of being an astronaut/cosmonaut/taikonauts served as a role-model for being an artist as idealistic socio-catalyst, critical observer, engineer and entrepreneur.
Besides a series of 62 prints rendered from original footage shot and send via the US-operated curiosity rover, the exhibition held a large compilation of objects, illustrating the topic in a limited color code of silver, black and earth tones. Lined up in the exhibition space as freight set-up the manifold objects represented human culture (as an estimated whole) as potential cargo for extraterrestrial export by relating them to different aspects of a mission to Mars (eg transportation, shielding/sheltering, food supply, communication, computerization, documentation, maintenance, rare earths and property rights).