Space Dog Odyssey is a series of photo-novella performances, or rather, performances that would like to be fictional documentary films. The performances are queer, post-humanist rewritings of major historical events told through the pets of powerful politicians, in a humorous though poetic manner, focusing on the minor, the silly and the subordinate.

Written and performed by Honey Biba Beckerlee and Mathias Kryger The Space Dog Odyssey, A Cold War Romance takes its point of departure in the Cold War and the Space Race. The narrative of the performance follow two strands; one is the encounter between Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy at the Vienna Summit in 1961. The second strand is the story of Strelka, the Russian spacedog, who was allegedly the first (along with Belka) to return to earth alive. Nikita Khrushchev gave Strelka to the Kennedy family and the dog went on to have pups with The White House dog Charlie. The distinction between (hu)man and dog is blurred, thus reconfiguring history, giving it a precipitate happy ending, where the Berlin wall is never erected.

Written by Honey Biba Beckerlee and performed by Stephanie Crame and Stephanie Comilang A Sub-Space Dog Odyssey, The Prequel takes its point of departure in the second world war, and the research that was done at the time, into dogs’ ability to read and spell, even calculate. The narrative unfolds in two strands; one is Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun and the other Blondi, his dog.
Here history is re-negotiated through a pun on the word subspace, which can mean both, in BDSM, the submissive partners state of mind or ultimate sensation and, in science fiction, an alternative plane of reality used for faster than light travel. Subspace becomes the word that frames the narrative, being both a metaphor for the bunker they would end their days in, but also being Blondi’s relationship to Hitler and in the end, by taking use of the last meaning of the word, a way to undo WWII.