“One must realize that life in a spaceship is like life in an office […], where you not only work and relax but spend days at a time,” ABC wrote in the statement accompanying their space project. “Training for life in space takes place on earth, in any office.” Contact broke the order of the office by appropriating keyboards to build the carcass of a satellite. But any violation of a taboo implicitly attributes the source material with special value; by playing with the office, ABC affirms its position as a sacred space. “If just once in his life [Ilyukhin] had held a jackhammer, hardhat, or cement in his hands, he would realize how beautiful and noble the office truly is,” Kosolapov said in ABC’s Artchronikainterview. “It’s paradise! Sure, it’s asexual and awful, oppressive and airless, but paradise nonetheless.”
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