THEIA offers security, purpose, and belonging. It asks for commitment, adaptability, and trust in the systems that sustain it. THEIA is the opportunity to take part in the next phase of human civilization.
Access to THEIA is not open. It is filtered. Before entering the colony, you are asked to complete an attitude test. Not to prove intelligence. Not to demonstrate skills. To reveal how you relate to limits, rules, conflict, and collective survival. There are no correct answers. There is no score. Your hesitation matters as much as your choice.
The test takes a few minutes. Its consequences are longer. Proceed only if you are willing to be evaluated.
Entry time: 08:00 – 08:30
Ceiling Lockdown 09:00
Exit time: 17:30 – 18:00
Follow Safety and Security Protocol
Listen and follow instruction from officials
Do not tamper with equipment and systems
Do not remove biometric wristband
Move in designated safe zones only
08:00 – 10:00 Training & Adaptation
10:00 – 15:00 Exploration and research
11:30 -12:30 Lunch at the Colony
12:45 – 14:30 Physical activity
Holy is the ritual and ceremonial area of the colony, dedicated to collective rites and shared practices. It is a space for gathering, contemplation, and symbolic acts connected to water, survival, and communal identity. Here, ritual replaces comfort, and repetition takes on a spiritual and political dimension, reinforcing cohesion within an isolated environment.
A few thousand inhabitants live beneath the surface of the Moon, in pressurized chambers where every breath is measured and every resource accounted for. Life unfolds between the LIFE bio-greenhouse, the energy production plant, the laboratories, and the silent corridors of internal maintenance. It is a small municipality in orbit around survival.
THEIA PARADIGM is a future fiction project developed by LIMINAL STATE: an exercise in imagining possible futures, set roughly one hundred years from now, where techno-scientific hypotheses intersect with speculative narratives, political tensions, and unresolved contradictions. This is not a vision of an ideal future. It is the simulation of a system.
We invite visitors to enter a narrative and become active participants in a future scenario: a visit to the lunar colony THEIA.
Apparently, THEIA embodies human ingenuity and the pursuit of a sustainable interplanetary future. Its stated aim is the creation of a new civilization on another planet, a laboratory for testing how life beyond Earth might function. Yet power, rules, limits, and unresolved ethical dilemmas persist, destabilizing the community from within. THEIA already exists, somewhere in the future.
Lunarpunk is an emerging aesthetic and philosophical subgenre, a nocturnal and spiritual evolution of Solarpunk, which envisions a sustainable future focused on mysticism, bioluminescence, and privacy. It represents the “yin” to Solarpunk’s “yang,” privileging introspection, connection with nature, cryptography, and lunar/feminine energies.Here are the key points of Lunarpunk:
It focuses on urban and natural landscapes at night, illuminated by bio-lights, luminescent fungi, and stars.
Unlike Solarpunk’s more technical approach, Lunarpunk embraces rituals, the moon goddess, magic, and a deep spiritual connection with the environment.
Often associated with digital resistance movements (like the “dark forest”), it uses cryptography to protect individuals from surveillance, defining a kind of “digital forest.”
It promotes adapting to the Earth’s natural rhythms rather than solely using technology to “save” the planet.
It is described as a darker, more mysterious, and introspective version of Solarpunk, one that explores the subconscious and emotions.
For over a decade, transmedia artists Saverio Villirillo and Gregorio Comandini have been exploring the relationships between humans and machines, producing works ranging from installations, exhibitions, and social practices. After founding NONE collective, the duo of architects and A/V artists continues their investigation into the threshold between perception, consciousness and imagination with artistic practices that induce the audience into a liminal state.
Through the language of new media, the artists aim to guide participants in their works into ecstatic states where the boundary between reality and imagination dissolves. Mental journeys are generated by overstimulated bodily senses, assuming a condition of permanent change between present and future, fiction and reality, possible and impossible.
The liminal state of altered consciousness arises from speculative narratives where the artists activate a liminal rite in which the audience takes on the central role of enchantment generator, thus constituting the fantastical substance, the magical matter that frees itself from a disenchanted world overwhelmed by a cynical realism. The duo defines a transmedial aesthetic characterized by dark environments, where light, video and sound construct cyclic patterns, sudden glimpses, suspensions and hypnotic crescendos that become disruptive energy and lead to an unexpected rupture.
Their installative and performative works resemble collective rituals where participants find themselves in a liminal state on the threshold of consciousness, identity and time, where social constraints can be temporarily dissolved and future perspectives can be questioned. The dissolution of order during liminality creates an ambiguous, fluid, and malleable situation that allows for the establishment of new customs and an individuation process.
Saverio and Gregorio’s works have been exhibited at Light Art Museum (Budapest/HU), Somerset House (London/UK), Fukuoka Science Museum (Fukuoka/JP), Farol Santander (Sao Paulo/BR), GresArt 671 (Bergamo/IT), Design week (Milan/IT), K11 Art Space (Guangzhou/CN), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome/IT).
They designed and realized historical and scientific outreach exhibitions including “Copernicus and the Revolution of the World” at the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum (2023, Rome), “Classico Pop” at the National Roman Museum (2018, Rome), the Italian Museum of Audiovisual and Cinema (2019, Rome), the Roman Museum of Santa Giulia (2023, Brescia).