The formation of Ninth Planet (Whit Forrester, Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, DB Amorin) began with a walk through the streets of New York City in the summer of 2023, just before the U.S. congressional hearings on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and non-human "biologics." Recognizing that we were likely on the brink of “official” disclosure of non-human intelligences interacting with contemporary human civilization, our collective formed, with an aim to wrest the narrative away from military, governmental, and corporate ownership. Rather than reinforcing systems of control, we seek to illuminate what falls outside the frameworks of global political power structures: the lived experiences, histories, and cosmologies that have long acknowledged and incorporated encounters with the unknown.
Whit Forrester, The Electric Universe Theory
A Lagrange Point
is a relationship of equilibrium, a region in space where the gravitational forces of two celestial bodies create a state of suspension. It is a place of stillness between immense forces, and a vantage point for recalibration. Our inaugural exhibition, Lagrange Point, borrows this concept to explore thresholds and transitions of knowledge, power, and perception in relation to UAP and broader ideas around non-human intelligence.
Through new commissions and existing works, the artists in Lagrange Point approach these questions with speculative, poetic, and critical methodologies. The works of Crystal Cortez in collaboration with Asa Nakagawa, Santino Gonzales, Suzanne Kite, mario lemafa, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, and Wendi Yan resist the supermassive pull of singular explanations, embracing instead a logic of multiplicity, indeterminacy, and radical absurdity. Whether engaging with artificial intelligence, Indigenous science, embodied experience, or the implications of non-human intelligences, they propose frameworks for encounters that neither domesticate nor dismiss the unknown. Instead, these works extend an invitation to witness, to listen, and to reconsider the limits of human perception and relational possibility.
By invoking the Lagrange Point as both metaphor and method, the exhibition establishes a counterpoint to dominant modes of inquiry. Here, balance is not stasis but a state of potential—an opening for thought, for contact, and for the speculative reimagining of what intelligence, presence, and relation might mean in a universe where we are not alone.
Lagrange Point exhibition at / slash gallery, San Francisco
Lagrange Point: UAP in DUB (two sides) by Dr. David A.M. Goldberg
The Importance of the Impossible: A conversation about the Archives of the Impossible
Contact & Connect
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