Art in Zero Gravity
dal 1/3/2002 al 19/4/2002
Segnalato da
1/3/2002
Art in Zero Gravity
Arts Catalyst, London
From afro-futurism to oriental fantasies of flying carpets, datasuits to dance movement analysis, the Arts Catalyst, the science-art agency, rounded up the best projects for floating in air and transported them to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia, in collaboration with Projekt Atol, Slovenia, to turn dreams of flying into reality.
Art in Zero Gravity March/April 2002
Events at Sadlers' Wells Lilian Baylis Theatre
1st & 2nd March 2002 - Artists and Cosmonauts
15th March 2002 - Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev
19th April 2002 - Gravity Zero: A Dancer in Weightlessness
In the last two years, an extraordinary mix of artists,
dancers, scientists and musicians have joined forces with
Russia's space programme to create work in a zero gravity
world where there is no up or down: a modernist
laboratory for making art for the cosmos.
From afro-futurism to oriental fantasies of flying carpets,
datasuits to dance movement analysis, the Arts Catalyst,
the science-art agency, rounded up the best projects for
floating in air and transported them to the Yuri Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia, in
collaboration with Projekt Atol, Slovenia, to turn dreams of
flying into reality.
Now London audiences have a chance to sample the art of
weightlessness as practised in space conditions - not
computer simulations, but in a large jet aircraft converted
into an artists' studio - diving at 25,000 feet.
With cosmonaut hero Sergei Krikalev - one of the longest
term inhabitants of MIR - he was the 'last Soviet citizen'
stranded aloft during the coup against Gorbachev - and
now building the International Space Station, a
performance by Kitsou Dubois, the first ever zero-G
dancer, and an Anglo-Russian mix of performance, video
and lectures, this season gives London audiences a taste
of the art of tomorrow.
Artists and Cosmonauts has been enabled with the
generous support of London Arts Board and Visiting Arts.
The Arts Catalyst's space programme is supported by
London Arts Board, the Arts Council of England, the
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, SciArt Awards, Imperial
College Visual Arts Programme, Imperial College of Science,
Technology and Medicine.
Friday 1 March, Saturday 2 March, Friday 19 April 2002
Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells, Rosebery Avenue,
London EC1
Nearest tube: Angel
Friday 15th March only: Institute of Physics, 76 Portland
Place, London W1
Nearest tubes: Regents Park, Oxford Circus
All events begin at 8PM.
March 1 BODIES IN SPACE
Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finder, Anna Alchuk, Masha
Chuikova, Anthony Bull, Kevin Fong, Morag Wightman and
Craos Mor
March 2 ARTISTS & COSMONAUTS
Alexei Blinov, Andrew Kotting, Marko Peljhan, philosopher
Mikhail Ryklin, Andrey and Julia Velikanov, the Zero Genies,
music by Hallucinator
March 15 SERGEI KRIKALEV at Institute of Physics
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev in conversation with artists (at
Institute of Physics)
April 19 A DANCER IN WEIGHTLESSNESS
Kitsou Dubois, Nick Davey and colleagues, Biodynamics
Group, Imperial College
ZERO GRAVITY WORKSHOP - 2 March, 11 am - 3 pm
Take part in zero gravity workshops to gain a better
understanding of how gravity forms and influences our
bodies and the world and cosmos around us. Experience
moments of zero gravity, challenge your balance and
orientation, try the freedom of aerial suspension and
explore the history of gravity, with zero gravity dancer
Morag Wightman and performance artist Tim Millar.
Join the new futurists, book all three Lilian Baylis events
for UK £ 15 (UK £ 12 concessions) or UK £6 (UK £5
concessions) each night.
Krikalev talk UK £ 5 (UK £ 3 concessions)
Zero gravity workshops UK £ 8 (UK £ 6 concessions)
Box office (all events) tel: 020 7863 8000