Campaign group say piece responds to tech billionaires’ ‘dangerous’ mission to make humans interplanetary
In the psychedelic south-east corner of the Glastonbury festival site a rocket has been built to carry Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos on a one-way journey to Mars.
The construction is not a hallucinatory vision but a installation designed by the political campaign group Led By Donkeys in collaboration with Block9, an area of Worthy Farm known for its immersive stage designs and diverse music genres.
“Send them to Mars … while we party on Earth,” reads the giant billboard, with Musk dressed in an orange astronaut-could-be-prison inmate jumpsuit positioned in the circular window of the rocket.
The billionaire’s hand is thrown skyward, recreating a gesture he made at a rally celebrating US president Donald Trump’s second inauguration, which appeared to be in the manner of a fascist-syle salute.
