by Eddo Stern (US)
“Goldstation” allegorizes the notion of progress for progress’ sake. Styled like an old school, 8-bit video game, the projection, flanked by walls lined in reflective foil, depicts a large golden asteroid, moving through outer space. The player controls a row of figures arrayed in a production line across the top of the rock. They take chunks of gold that fall from above, smelt them into bars, and send them off on an interstellar horse cart. Every time the horse departs with a bar, the asteroid moves more quickly. If you don’t get a repetitive stress injury first, you can get the workers going at a good clip, and the asteroid starts speeding through the stars.