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[Nettime-bold] Artists & Cosmonauts (announcement)


From: "The Arts Catalyst" <info@artscatalyst.org>
Subject: Artists & Cosmonauts
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:46:12 -0000
 
The Arts Catalyst presents
 
ARTISTS & COSMONAUTS - The New Futurists
Fri 1 March 2002
Sat 2 March 2002
Fri 19 April 2002
plus talk by Russian cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev - date to be announced
 
Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells, Rosebery Avenue London EC1, UK
 
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, has rounded
up the best projects for floating in air and transported them to the Yuri
Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia, 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.  We can't take
audiences into space - yet - but coming to Sadlers Wells for our
season of zero gravity work will give you an idea of the possibilities of
the future.
 
Choreographer Kitsou Dubois, the first artist in zero gravity, and dancer
Morag Wightman present dance in weightlessness, philosopher Mikhail Ryklin
reflects on Russian cosmism, the Zero Genies - artist-musicians Ansuman Biswas
and Jem Finer - show spectacular real flying carpet sequences, and noted DJ/sampling
group Hallucinator play music for the long-distance cosmonaut. Russian media artists
Andrey and Julia Velikanov premiere their film of Arts Catalyst's 2001 expedition to
Star City, heart of the Russian space programme. Other zero gravity pioneers include
Kevin Fong, lecturer in medicine in extreme environments and advisor to NASA, and
film-maker Andrew Kotting, whose latest film Filthy Earth was recently released
to critical acclaim.
 
An additional event will be announced shortly.  Arts Catalyst is bringing a true cosmonaut hero, Sergei Krikalev, to the UK to share his experiences on the Mir Space Station and the contrasts of the East and West's perspectives on space research.  Krikalev was, famously, the last Soviet citizen (stranded on the MIR Space Station during the coup against Gorbachev) and was recently a member of the first mission to the new International Space Station.
 
Take part in zero gravity workshops to gain a better understanding of gravity:
how it moulds our bodies and the cosmos. Experience moments of "zero gravity",
challenge your balance and orientation, and explore the history of gravity, with
zero gravity dancer Morag Wightman and performance artist Tim Millar.
 
Fri 1 March 2002
8 pm :
BODIES IN SPACE
The Zero Genies (Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finer), Masha Chuikova, Anthony Bull,
Kevin Fong, Morag Wightman, Louise K Wilson
 
Sat 2 March 2002
11 am to 4 pm :
ZERO GRAVITY WORKSHOP led by Morag Wightman and Tim Millar. (Minimum age - 14 years)
8 pm :
ARTISTS & COSMONAUTS
Anna Alchuk, Alexei Blinov, Andrew Kotting, Marko Peljhan, philosopher Mikhail Ryklin,
Andrey & Julia Velikanov, music by Hallucinator
 
Fri 19 April 2002
8 pm:
A DANCER IN WEIGHTLESSNESS
Kitsou Dubois, Nick Davey and colleagues, Biodynamics Group, Imperial College
 
Join the new futurists, book all three Lilian Baylis events for
UK £15 (UK £12 concessions) or UK £6 (UK £5 concessions) each night.
Sergei Krikalev talk - TO BE ANNOUNCED.
Zero gravity workshops UK £ 8 (UK £ 6)
 
Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells, Rosebery Avenue London EC1, UK
Box office tel: 020 7863 8000
Book on-line: www.sadlerswells.com
 
The Arts Catalyst
the science-art agency
www.artscatalyst.org