art TOM SACHS space program: mars, 2012 the japanese tea ceremony performed as a cosmic ritual — a fictional clash of hospitality and gravity, symbolism and nothingness, humanity and isolation interview by OLIVIER ZAHM photography by JOSHUA WHITE OLIVIER ZAHM — Tom, have you always been a space enthusiast? TOM SACHS — Yeah, because I was born in 1966 — although I was two years old and don’t remember “man on the moon.” OLIVIER ZAHM — That was ’69? TOM SACHS — Yeah. Actually, I’d just turned three because it was in July. It was around the same date. We were in Central Park with a big TV projection and everyone watching it. But the story is really more about the myth of the space program and the promise of the future — and the utopian vision. Because 1974 was the year when the gross national product of the USA…