'We Colonised The Moon' is a collaborative project with Hagen Betzwieser (Germany). 'We Are Sorry for That' is the first of three prints for an installation 'Approved for All Ages' made using fluorescent ink and controlled lighting. It was made at the Bauhaus in Weimar in November/December 2008. The second print 'Back in 5 Minutes' was made as part of an Artist's Residency at University College Falmouth in February/March 2009. The third, 'Good Luck with That' will be produced at Amsterdam's Grafish Atelier later in 2009. This installation series forms the start of an ongoing project related to space exploration, 'Approved for All Ages''

The conceptual framework for the work is based on our initial encounter and response to the mountain glacier landscape of Sonjdeforde in Norway. This pristine, lunar like landscape of rock, ice and mist, had been invaded by tents and electricity pilons set up for a mountain film festival when we stumbled into it last September. An ongoing discussion about colonisation and space travel began and evolved into this collaborative project. The work is made with a light and humerous touch but also refers to more serious philosophical relationships between east and west, and human and nature, in the form of a graphic visualisation of a battle between spacemen and rabbits.

Idyllica: Too much nature can be deadly. Auto immunity, delerium and coma are the suspected symptoms of the condition of over exposure to beauty. Human activity on earth is described by an impulse and belief in the necessity and desirability of progress  linked to technology and medicine but we are increasingly allergic to our environment - it makes us sick. Now things are getting critical. We are perhaps already past the apex of survivability on earth - over senstised. We have defined the syndrome Idyllica. We are now researching and documenting and creating solutions for a new museum of premonition. This project too was first inspired by our encounter with a place that could define sublime, Norway.

Sue Corke & Hagen Betzwieser, 2008-2009

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