The initial idea of a space station sent to
study an alien race haunted him, and he pitched it to his friend and mentor Dave Fracchia — former studio head of Radical Entertainment.
Through its work, Iniva has continued to encourage the
study and interrogation of cultural identity and difference, most recently in its 2011 exhibition Entanglement: the ambivalence of identity, but also previously in exhibitions such as
Alien Nation (2007), which explored science - fiction,
race and contemporary art and Veil (2003), which addressed the veneration and vilification of the veil in contemporary culture.