[syndicate] ARTISTS & COSMONAUTS - The New Futurists

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> from info at artscatalyst.org
>
> The Arts Catalyst presents
> ARTISTS & COSMONAUTS - The New Futurists
> www.artscatalyst.org/htm/russia2001events.htm 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
>
>
>


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