
CHIMERIC EMBASSY OF COSMIC CONCERNS
open research echology 2025-2027
The Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns begins by bringing together four concepts that have travelled through different histories for centuries before finding themselves gathered to constitute a research echology. They belong to different histories, different institutions and different ways of understanding the world. Rarely have they occupied the same conceptual space. Yet precisely their distance from one another opens a field of artistic research that none of them could establish alone.
The Chimeric arrives from Greek mythology, where the Chimera first appears as a creature whose body refuses the integrity of species. Lion, goat and serpent inhabit the same body without becoming a unified whole. Over time, the chimera migrates into natural history, biology and contemporary philosophy, where it repeatedly names forms of existence that exceed inherited systems of classification.
The Embassy arrives from the history of diplomacy. Long before it became an architectural institution, it designated the act of being sent on behalf of another. The embassy has always organised political relations across distance, making absent territories present through representation and negotiation. It is one of the enduring institutions through which worlds become diplomatically connected.
The Cosmic returns to the ancient Greek kosmos: order, arrangement and composition. Yet the cosmic has never referred simply to the universe. It asks how a world is composed, how different forms of existence become part of that composition, and which remain excluded from it. The cosmic reminds us that no place, no territory and no concern exists in isolation.
Concerns complete the constellation. They are not themes selected in advance but situations that insist upon attention. A concern gathers relations before it becomes knowledge. It resists closure and invites sustained inquiry, allowing research to remain responsive to worlds that are still unfolding.
These concepts do not meet because they belong together. They meet because they challenge one another. Each carries a different history, a different vocabulary and a different imagination of the world. Their encounter is neither symbolic nor accidental. It opens a space in which mythology meets diplomacy, representation encounters ecology, and artistic research becomes a practice of keeping these conversations alive rather than resolving them too quickly.
The Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns names this ongoing conversation. Every Assembly, exhibition, publication and collaboration becomes another moment in which these four concepts continue to negotiate one another, gradually generating new questions, altered connections and new ways of imagining what diplomacy, representation and collective life might become.
(2025-2027) Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns is a three-year, drifting inquiry. It is an experimental space that reimagines diplomacy, ethics (cosmo-ethics), and creativity as processes that critically question the current political regulation of freedom of movement/unfreedom and the right to control life and death of all matter on a militarised planet. Rooted in a hybrid and transformative acknowledgment of both material and immaterial realms, the Chimeric Embassy exists as a living, dynamic space for planetary, cosmic, and interdimensional concerns. It is in a state of constant flux— defies the conventional notion of an embassy as merely political, instead becoming a site for artistic intervention, ontological inquiry, and the negotiation of cosmic concerns. While the Chimeric Embassy operates as an independent and nomadic initiative, it is occasionally sheltered and accompanied by OB Contemporary throughout its trajectory over these three years. In this capacity, OB Contemporary facilitates moments of convergence—conversations, gatherings, collective readings, and exhibitions—that articulate the Embassy’s evolving cosmic concerns. As a periodic host and collaborator, OB Contemporary provides temporary refuge while advocating the Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns to remain open across geographies, embracing an ever-shifting constellation of alliances. Over the course of its journey, the Chimeric Embassy will activate diverse sites and semi-institutions, creating spaces for gatherings, exhibitions, and activations across varied contexts. The Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns arises from the acknowledgment that the cosmos, in all its vastness, encompasses concerns that stretch far beyond human understanding yet are deeply entangled with human and more than human existence. Its gesture is to initiate altered conversations across cosmic boundaries, where matters, energies, and thoughts intersect in ever-shifting, hybrid constellations. The Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns begins here: in the murmured resonances of planetary aesthetics and cosmo-ethics. It is not a fixed place but an intersympathetic practice, an emergent cosmopublic site where whispers turn into spirals, and spirals become bridges. Here, Earth is not just the ground to walk upon but a resonant body, a breathing entity with symbiotic currents that call each and everyone to attention. The Embassy listens to these calls, weaving interdimensional bridges of care and connection, inviting a shift—a spiraling shift—toward recognizing Earth not as an object to regulate but as a living, legal subject with infinite affinities. It is through these whispered links and echoed entwining that it is to unlearn extractive ways of being. How might a cosmopublic practice rooted in such resonant weavings invite a reimagining of borders, governance, and the ethics of movement? How might trans-connections and intracuriosities begin to disassemble systems that deny Earth its rightful place as a subject of rights? The Chimeric Embassy does not answer. It dreams. It spirals. It hosts. It gathers voices, stitching synaptic ties between disciplines, between the seen and unseen, between the human and the more-than-human. A shimmering gathering of serendipitous alignments emerges, soft yet urgent, asking to reorient our imaginations toward planetary solidarities. This is a cosmo-ethical provocation: a call for infinite embraces among all matter, a shared ontology of care that recognizes the agency of Earth and its materiality. A planetary art that signals the urgent need for a habitable future, one woven from whispering links, symbiotic currents, and friendly solidarities across all existence. The Chimeric Embassy, nomadic and unfixed, invites you to step into its resonant orbit. Not to resolve but to echo, not to solve but to weave—to build a planetary art where aesthetics and ethics collapse into one shimmering, spiraling, serendipitous embrace. This is cosmo-ethics, and this is where it begins.

First Assembly, OB CONTEMPORARY, Madrid 2025

Hosting an Assembly
The Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns has no permanent location.
Its research is continuous, but its public form is episodic. An Assembly comes into existence when an ongoing concern encounters a host, institution, residency, research centre, university, museum, exhibition space or other cultural organisation prepared to enter the research itself.
The host is not simply the place in which an Assembly is shown. It is one of the conditions from which the Assembly can take place.
Its location, architecture, working rhythms, institutional language, local knowledge, publics, resources and contradictions all affect the form the research takes.
An Assembly realised in Madrid cannot be reproduced in Athens. An investigation hosted by a residency cannot take the same form within a museum, university or independent space.
The concern travels, but it does not remain unchanged.
Hosting may support a period of research, the realisations of new works, situated encounters, a publication, a public activation or a full Assembly. The precise form is developed in exchange with the host and in response to the conditions of its city and context.
The Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns C.E.o.C.C therefore does not seek neutral venues for already completed projects.
It seeks hosts willing to become part of an unfolding artistic research methodology.
A host does not provide a background for the research.
It enters the research and changes its course.
Every future Assembly will be announced together with the city, host institution or host residency through which it becomes possible.

First Assembly
of Ideas
Legal Fictions, Unequal Movement and Planetary Belonging
Madrid, 2025
18 January–15 February 2025
Hosted by OB Contemporary
The First Assembly inaugurated the Chimeric Embassy of Cosmic Concerns by investigating one of the most fundamental technologies through which the contemporary world is organised: the legal document.
Passports, visas, certificates, stamps, atlases and administrative forms appear to describe reality. Yet they do something far more consequential. They produce legal identities, authorise movement, distribute belonging and determine who may cross borders, who must wait, and whose presence remains permanently conditional. Every document contains a legal fiction: a collectively maintained narrative through which institutions transform paper into political reality.
Beginning with the passport as both object and methodology, the Assembly asked a deceptively simple question:
What happens when artistic practice begins producing documents instead of merely representing them?
Across installations, publications, sound, text, drawing and participatory works, the Assembly displaced the authority of bureaucratic language into speculative artistic forms.
At its centre stood the ongoing Planetary Passports—a project translated into forty-three languages—which transformed one of the state's most recognisable instruments into a document of planetary belonging. The passport no longer functioned as proof of nationality but as an invitation to imagine citizenship beyond geopolitical borders, grounded instead in the shared conditions of inhabiting Earth. Translation became integral to the work: every language altered the proposition, implying that planetary belonging is not a universal language but a continually negotiated practice.
This investigation expanded through works such as Planetary Consciousness of Peace, The Absent Meridian, Taxonomies in Free Fall, Occupied Botanics: Histories Carried in Soil, Assembly of Suspended Seeds, and the sound work Carrying a Handful of Soil Across Three Borders, Knowing Its Freedom and Yours. Together they questioned not only the movement of people but also the movement of seeds, soil, plants, languages, memories and political imaginaries.
The sound work proposed perhaps the Assembly's most radical inversion. Carrying a handful of soil across three borders became less an act of transporting matter than an invitation to reconsider freedom itself. If soil ignores national boundaries, if it persists beyond sovereignty, ownership and cartography, then perhaps borders reveal less about the earth than about the political fictions humans project onto it. As the sonic work askes repeatedly: Do we carry the soil, or does the soil carry us? The gesture transformed movement from a legal category into an ontological and ethical relation between bodies, territories and the material world.
Seeds gathered in Madrid entered an ongoing dispersed assembly. Soil became archive rather than territory. Atlases ceased to stabilise geography and instead exposed the contingency of every mapped order. Taxonomies lost their apparent neutrality, entering what the work called a state of free fall, where established systems of classification could no longer contain the multiplicity of living worlds.
The First Assembly therefore did not simply critique borders.
It investigated the conditions through which borders become believable.
More fundamentally, it asked whether artistic research can construct altered legal, ecological and diplomatic imaginaries—not by escaping institutions, but by inhabiting their languages, documents and procedures differently.
Rather than presenting conclusions, the First Assembly established the methodological foundation of the Chimeric Embassy itself.
It proposed the Assembly as a temporary diplomatic infrastructure in which artistic research, legal speculation, translation, ecological thinking and institutional imagination become inseparable.











Second Assembly: Time, Lying Around
(2026)
The Second Assembly arises from a proposition and a refusal:
Time is not equally available.
Time is not a shared ground.
What appears as neutral measure—synchronised, continuous and universal—is approached instead as a system of allocation. Time is produced, distributed, valued and withheld. It accelerates for some, while others are made to wait.
The research originated primarily in Athens
(January to May 2026) and from the lived experience of working within a call-centre infrastructure synchronised with other European economies while operating under radically different conditions of labour and value.
The same hour circulates.
It does not correspond.
An hour of labour may be measured identically across national borders while being compensated, protected and lived in fundamentally different ways.
Administrative time, logistical time, service time, waiting time and suspended time coexist, but they do not form a common present.
The Second Assembly asks how these unequal temporal regimes become material. It moves through three interconnected propositions:
non-functioning clocks placed within public contexts; a moving-image work developed through proximity to urban cats in Athens; and a speculative Time Compensation Protocol proposing compensation for time extracted, delayed or made inaccessible through labour and bureaucracy.
The clocks retain the appearance of instruments of synchronisation while refusing to confirm a shared temporal order.
Together, these works ask:
Who controls the duration of another person’s life?
When does waiting become a form of extraction?
Why is one person’s urgency sustained by another person’s suspension?
Can time taken by bureaucracy, precarious labour or enforced uncertainty ever be returned?
The Assembly does not attempt to represent time. It seeks to produce situations in which time can be encountered as an unequal condition.
The next Assembly and its host will be announced soon.





Research continuing in parallel
alongside the Second Assembly, the Chimeric Embassy is developing further concerns whose public forms have not yet been determined.
What Would Love Do?
This research asks what love might become if it were treated not as a private feeling, moral virtue or promise of reconciliation, but as a serious public and institutional condition.
In a present organised through strategic alignment, securitisation, optimisation and instrumental reason, love is frequently commercialised, privatised or mobilised rhetorically. The research approaches it instead as a non-instrumental mode of relation: a form of co-inhabitation that resists possession, utility and strategic conversion.
It asks whether an institution can sustain relations that are not converted into data, documentation, visibility, productivity or measurable impact.
What would it mean to remain present without extracting a testimony?
To care without producing proof?
To meet without requiring an outcome?
To relate without turning another being, place or encounter into a means?
Love is not proposed as the opposite of conflict. Nor is it imagined as pure, harmonious or innocent.
It becomes chimeric precisely because it must hold contradiction: attachment without ownership, care without control, difference without abandonment, and responsibility without the promise of resolution.
A future Assembly would test love as an institutional impossibility—and ask what happens when an institution nevertheless attempts to make room for it.