The installation was proposed for development for the 2009 Art of the Overhead festival in Malmo Sweden. For a week in May prior to the opening of the exhibition and events programme an international group of arists linked by their love of this item of retro technology lived and worked together in a disused factory in the port area of the city. Diversly using OHPs to make animations, tell stories, comment on education and instruction and make sculpture, light stimulated interactive sound art and installation.

Lost in Space was conceived as a development of previous work in Norway in 2008. In collaboration with Hagen Betzwieser the idea to project actual star maps was evolved.

The star maps were precision laser cut in the UK and show the constellations of Orion, Taurus, Cygnus, Lyra, Pegasus and Cassiopeia. They were then mounted on pins attached to geared motors fixed to the side of the OHPs to rotate in very slow motion. The OHPs were adapted to become low power, using 50 instead of 220 watt halogen bulbs thus remaining entirely silent and minimising light leakage.

The walls, ceiling and floor of the small installation space were painted mat black to make it hard to see where the projections fell, adding to the illusion and the feeling of slight sea sickness and disorientation experienced by visitors! As people moved inside the space they displaced the projections and became themselves objects of dark matter in their own universe. Outside, others could glimpse this strange phenomenon through a peep hole in the door.