Visitors are invited to engage via text message with a constellation of speakers where they describe their vision of a distant future.  The messages are translated thorough a series of randomly chosen languages and vocalized back to them. Elsewhere in the gallery the ‘comet’ is observing, projecting images and ideas from the conversation and gradually building visual collage. It becomes a living document of our collective hopes and fears. Viewers are invited to raise their phones once again to participate in a loosely scripted smart mob performance, guided by the comet herself.

X class comets are rogue heliospheric bodies of ice and cosmic dust whose path is unpredictable or unknown. Historically their drop-in visits have inspired both awe and panic. They also offer us a collective moment to look both inward and outward. Mirant Stella is a crowd-made construction of apocalyptic vision, a comet in the making and a reflection on the civilization we have built. Like an icy snowball it accumulates material from its visitors; a comet’s life in reverse and a document of a far-flung future we haven’t begun to imagine.