NOWNESS Premiere — Chang’E Flying to the Moon
A short documentary on the world’s first fully art-painted rocket.

26th Nov 2025
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

NOWNESS premieres Chang’E Flying to the Moon, a short documentary capturing Jacky Tsai’s historic fully art-painted rocket project — a work that sends the legend of the Chinese moon goddess beyond the Kármán line.

Blending mythology, large-scale engineering and contemporary visual art, the project marks a new chapter in Tsai’s long-term exploration of art in motion — from land and sea to air and outer space.

Developed in collaboration with commercial space company LandSpace, the ZQ-2E Y2 rocket becomes both a carrier of narrative and a monumental moving sculpture. The figure of Chang’E, a recurring symbol within Chinese cultural memory, is translated into a visual language that exists simultaneously in craft, image, film and physical launch.

Rather than documenting an artwork, the film follows the transformation of an idea into a real event — tracing the process through which visual art enters aerospace technology and the cosmos.

This premiere with NOWNESS situates the project within a global contemporary art context, marking a key moment in Tsai’s cross-disciplinary practice.

“To witness my artwork launched into space on a real rocket is one of the most emotional moments of my career. Through this project, I hope to send our shared dreams and imagination truly into the cosmos.”