Fake Astrology

Since the beginning of time, people have looked to the sky for orientation, developing maps, calendars, and systems of meaning-making based on celestial patterns. Stars long relied on for orientation and divination are obscured by the stronger lights of human made satellites. How is the ancient technology of astrology affected by artificial satellites? How do we read signs and interpret messages in a universe saturated with our own inscriptions? How do we update our cosmologies to hold a reality we continue to materially alter?

Fake Astrology is a long-term artistic project and choreographic study of artificial satellites in an artificial night. It includes formats such as satellite gazing and a Fake Astrology oracle deck—ritual technologies for disorientation.