Visibility - Legibility of Space Art.
Art and Zero G. : the experience of parabolic flights
October 4th - 5th 2003
@rt Outsiders
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5/7 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
Métro : Saint-Paul
admission within the limits of available seats (first arrived, first seated basis)
Curated by Annick Bureaud, the Visibility - Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights symposium is the product of a collaboration between the @rt Outsiders International Festival (http://www.art-outsiders.com) and Leonardo/Olats (http://www.olats.org).
Whether it is in the scientific, commercial or artistic field, space exploration introduces extremely diverse practices. This year, the @rt Outsiders International Festival 2003 proposes to investigate some of these practices within the world of contemporary art.
The sensation of weightlessness, of "floating," "flying," "freely" in three dimensions, of "holding still" without support and without fear of falling, is one of the more tenacious dreams, desires - fantasies? - and surely one of the chief reasons human beings succumb to the urge to venture outside of their native planet. For many artists, creating work in, with, for, or about this condition of "zero gravity" is an artistic re-examination extending far beyond the dream.
With the exception of a few cosmonauts or astronauts who are also painters, such as the Russian Alexei Leonov, to this day no artist has been able to "live" weightlessness in a durable fashion aboard a space station or the American shuttle. On Earth, the parabolic flight remains the sole means of experiencing this unique condition.
In a parabolic flight, a specially equipped plane describes a series of parabolas in the air (bell-shaped curves with a 45° angle). In the "climbing" phase, gravity goes from 1 G. (normal terrestrial gravity) to 2 G. for 20 seconds before attaining the weightless phase at the "top of the curve" for approximately 25 seconds. During the "descent" phase of the flight, the plane returns to the 2 G. phase for roughly 20 seconds. The cycle is repeated.
Thus, the parabolic flight can be described as a succession of very short periods (2 G. - 0 G. - 2 G. - 1 G) constituting a rather exceptional environment, where the experience of weightlessness is "framed" by moments of 2 G.
Although access to parabolic flights remains a challenge for artists, to date 22 have been able to work with and within their unique environment. Thus, we have a very diverse body of work and projects at our disposal (ranging from dance to performance, sculpture, painting, sound/music, video, etc.) by artists from different artistic horizons and diverse cultures (France, Japan, Spain, Russia, United States, Great Britain, etc…).
Within the category of space art, creation during parabolic flights constitutes a comprehensive subgroup that defines a "common base" from which to conduct an artistic and aesthetic analysis of these practices. This is the challenge of this symposium. Thus, the Visibility - Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights symposium proposes to:
present the details of parabolic flights and consider the main issues outside of their spectacular nature;
specify their different roles within the creative process. Often perceived as the space where creation takes place (site of performance and exhibition), parabolic flights are first and foremost the space of experimentation (a "studio" or creative workshop) as well as the material for creation;
conduct a preliminary aesthetic analysis of the works: what is their form, what do they say, how do they relate to contemporary art and to techno-scientific art in general, in what way are they "informed" by weightlessness and the environment that constitutes the flight? etc.;
highlight the importance of these works within a broader artistic process;
raise questions regarding the "visibility" and "legibility" of the work, to question art critic.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 4TH
09h30 - 09h45 : Welcome
09h45 - 10h00 : Jean-Luc Soret, artistic director Festival @rt Outsiders
Moderator : Roger Malina
| 10h00 - 10h45 : | Annick Bureaud, Leonardo/Olats, Paris |
| The "Reasons for a symposium" | |
| 10h45 - 11h15 : | Denis Thierion, Parabolic Flight director, CNES, Toulouse |
| Access to Micro-Gravity: Parabolic Flights | |
| 11h15 - 12h00 : | Nicola Triscott & Rob LaFrenais, Arts Catalyst, London |
| The Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory
An Artist in Space - an achievable Goal? | |
| 12h00 - 12h30 : | Flow Motion (Anna Piva & Edward George), artists, London |
| Flow Motion: Kosmos in Blue | |
| 12h30 - 13h00 : | Questions, discussions with the audience |
| 13h00 - 14h30 : | Lunch Break |
Moderator : Edmond Couchot
| 14h30 - 15h00 : | Thierry Pozzo, researcher, Inserm, Dijon |
| Visual Perception of the Living | |
| 15h00 - 15h30 : | Kitsou Dubois, artist, Paris |
| From Lived Experience to Creation: Trajectories and Analogies | |
| 15h30 - 16h00 : | Marcel-Li Antunez Roca, artist, Barcelona |
| Transpermia: The Dédalo Project | |
| 16h00 - 16h30 : | Questions, discussions with the audience |
| 16h30 - 16h45 : | Break |
| 16h45 - 17h15 : | Takuro Osaka, artist, Tokyo |
| The New Viewpoint from the World -Zero G. | |
| 17h15 - 17h45 : | Vadim Fishkin, artist, Ljubjana/Moscow |
| Kaplegraf 0g (drop orbits) | |
| 17h45 - 18h15 : | Alex Adriaansens, director V2, Rotterdam |
| May the Force Be With You | |
| 18h15 - 18h45 : | Questions, discussions with the audience |
| 18h45 - 19h00 : | Conclusion of the day (Annick Bureaud) |
| Announcement of the evening programme (Jean-Luc Soret) | |
SUNDAY OCTOBRE 5TH
Moderator : Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié
| 14h00 - 15h00 : | Jean-Pierre Haigneré, astronaut, ESA, Paris |
| Between the Real and the Virtual, Guide Marks | |
| 15h00 - 15h30 : | Roger Malina, Leonardo & Laboratoire d'astronomie spatiale, Marseille |
| Contextualizing Zero Gravity Art | |
| 15h30 - 16h00 : | Mikhail Ryklin, philosopher, Moscou |
| The Russian-Soviet Cosmism in Zero-Gravity | |
| 16h00 - 16h15 : | Questions, discussions with the audience |
| 16h15 - 16h30 : | Break |
| 16h30 - 17h15 : | Kodwo Eshun, Richard Couzins & Anjalika Sagar, artists, London |
| The Otolith Project | |
| 17h15 - 17h45 : | Frank Pietronigro, artist, San Francisco |
| "Drift Paintings" in Micro-Gravity | |
| 17h45 - 18h15 : | Louise K. Wilson, artist, London |
| On the History of Parabolic Flight and on Feeling Sick | |
| 18h15 - 18h45 : | Marko Pelhjan, artist, director Projekt Atol, Ljubjana |
| Projekt Atol Flight Operations, The Slovenian Space Agency and the Makrolab | |
| 18h45 - 19h00 : | Questions, discussions with the audience |
Alex Adriaansens
Alex Adriaansenss studied at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
He is the director of V2_Organisation, which he cofounded in 1981. He is also a member of several advisory boards for organizations including De Berlage Institute a post academic architecture research center in Rotterdam; the Transmediale in Berlin. He is on the advisory committee of the (Dutch) Foundation for Visual Arts, Architecture and Design. He has given presentations at many festivals and art institutes and written texts for different publications.
V2 network relations o.a.:
V2_Organisation is a centre for art and (media)technology since 1981. It is an interdisciplinary centre focussing on art, science and mediatechnology. V2_Organisation deals with presentations, research and production and runs a store with independent released information carriers. The activities are: symposia, exhibitions, workshops, publications, network projects, concerts, performances, research and production and a biennale festival called DEAF.
Marcel-li Antunez Roca
Marcel.lí Antúnez Roca (Moià, 1959) is well-known in the international art scene for his mechanotronic performances and robotic installations. Founding member of La Fura dels Baus, he worked in this company as art co-ordinator, musician and performer from 1979 to 1989. In the nineties his avantguard mechatronic performances combined such elements as Bodybots (body-controlled robots), Systematugy (interactive narration with computers) and dresskeleton (the exoskeleton body interface). The themes explored in his work include: the use of biological materials in robotics, as in JoAn l'home de carn (1992); telematic control on the part of a spectator of an alien body in the performance EPIZOO (1994); the expansion of body movements with dresskeletons (exoskeletical body interfaces) used in the performances AFASIA (1998) and POL (2002); involuntary choreography with the bodybot REQUIEM (1999); and microbiological transformations in the installations RINODIGESTIO (1987) and AGAR (1999). He is currently working on the spatial artwork DEDALUS.
Annick Bureaud
Works and lives in Paris, France. She is the director of Leonardo/Olats (www.olats.org). As an art critic she runs a regular column on electronic art in the French contemporary art magazine Art Press. She teaches at the Art School of Aix-en-Provence and at Ecole Centrale Paris (engineers school). She has been guest lecturer at the School of the Art Institute Chicago/SAIC in 1999 and at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) in 2001.
In 2002, she co-edited the book Connexions : art, réseaux, media published by the Press of Ensba ; she co-organized the International Symposium "Artmedia VIII: From the Aesthetics of Communication to Net art", in Paris and edited the online proceedings published by Leonardo/Olats. The article "Typologie des interfaces artistiques", has been published in the collective book Interfaces et sensorialité, edited by Louise Poissant, Sainte-Foy, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2003.
She is the co-editor of SpaceartS, the space and the arts database", a joint project of Leonardo/Olats and the Ours Foundation (www.spacearts.info).
Richard Couzins
Richard Couzins is a video and mixed media artist based in London whose work focuses on the relation between language, moving image and audio. Couzins has exhibited solo and in group shows throughout the UK and Europe. Recent projects include Actual Size, Overgaden, Copenhagen and New Video Work at Hoxton Distillery, London.
Kitsou Dubois
Choreographer, pedagogue, doctor in aesthetics, sciences and technologies of art, Kitsou Dubois has worked for more than ten years with the spatial research on body movements, processes of orientation and perception in weightlessness. First dancer and choreographer to experiment weightlessness within parabolic flights, she has developped a proposal to train astronauts based on dance technics. Her first choreography in this field, Gravité Zéro, aimed at sharing with the audience the experience of the flight. With Trajectoire Fluide, she evokes the trajectories between zero gravity and gravity one, the trajectories of the movements within the body, the trajectories of the bodies in space, the trajectories of the human beings within new environments.
Her artistic work is pluridisciplinary. To performances it associates video installations about the mouvement in space with images.
Kodwo Eshun
Kodwo Eshun is a cultural critic, author of More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Quartet) and curator based in London. In 1999, he co-curated "Dub Housing", the exhibition, symposium and concert for Steirische Herbst in Graz, Austria and attended Ars Electronica as Judge for the Digital Music Jury in 1999 and 2000. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Artangel and an Assessor for the Arts Council Arts and Science Research Fellowship in 2003. Eshun is co-curator of the first "Retrospective on the work of the Black Audio Film Collective".
Vadim Fishkin
Vadim Fishkin was born in Penza/USSR in 1965. Studied at Moscow Institute of Architecture, graduated in 1986. Lives and works in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Moscow.
Solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb ; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston ; Biennale di Venezia (1995).
Group exhibitions "Imaging Prometheus", Pallazzo della Ragione Milano, Italy (2003) ; "Station Utopia", Biennale di Venezia (2003) ; "Collection 2000 +" and "Iconoclash", ZKM (2002) ; "Projet Utopie, Construction", Jeu de Paume, Paris (2000) ; "After the Wall", Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999) ; "Europaer", Grazer Stadtmuseum, Graz, Steirischer Herbst, (1993).
Stage design for various dance performance among wich the Cabinet Noordong, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Edward George
b. london of west indian parentage, received ba. hons in fine art @ portsmouth polytechnic, founder member, television documentary production company, black audio film collective (1983-98), whose work included last angel of history/mothership connection. founder member, arts group Flow motion & electronic music group Hallucinator, 1998 - present.
Rob La Frenais
Rob La Frenais is a contemporary art curator and writer living in London, England and Albi, France. Trained as a journalist, he became involved in the art and community video scene in the seventies, and participated in early media art exhibitions in Europe and internationally. From 1979-1987 he founded and edited Performance Magazine, a key international cultural journal that charted the explosion of performance art in the eighties. From 1987, he became a curator, specialising initially in performance and site-specific sculpture and installation, producing 3 major international biennales, with new commissions by over 100 artists in London, Newcastle, Glasgow and Madrid, Edge 88 ,90, 92. In 1993 he curated Earthwire, an exhibition of art and technology in rural sites. From 1994-95 he was the artistic director of the Festival de Belluard, Fribourg, Switzerland, with a theme of artists working with consciousness, which later toured to the ICA, London. In 1996 he worked with artist James Turrell to develop a new major site-specific work in the North of England. In 1997 he joined the Arts Catalyst, the science-art agency as curator and developed and produced a number of major initiatives involving nuclear art, (Atomic) space exploration in art (Gravity Zero, Artists and Cosmonauts), indigenous science (Parallel Universe) new living systems for artists and scientists (Makrolab in Scotland) and art and biotechnology (CleanRooms). He has organised and chaired a number of conferences and forums (Eye of the Storm, Cosmic Chances, UK Space Art Forum, Working With Wetware). With the Arts Catalyst he has organised four zero gravity campaigns, in Star City, Russia and Bordeaux, France. He participated in the first dedicated artists zero gravity flight in the Ilyushin MDK 76 in Russia with Noordung/Projekt Atol in 1999. He will not be going into space until the technology improves.
Jean-Pierre Haigneré
Born May 19, 1948 in Paris, France
Titles
Spaceflight Experience
ALTAÏR Mission
Accompanied by Vassili Tsibliev, commander on board, and Alexander Serebrov, the engineer on board, he arrived at the MIR Space Station on July 3, 1993, 2 days after their departure from the Baïkonour Cosmodrome.
He returned to earth on July 22, 1993 accompanied by the crew members residing aboard the space station for the previous six months: Guenadi Manakov, commander on board, and Alexander Polechtchouk, engineer on board.
In 1994, he received qualification for Airbus, an aircraft designed to replace the Zero G Caravelle, an aircraft enabling the CNES to pursue campaign flights in microgravity and encourage French as well as European experiments on board.
In September 1995, he assumes the direction of Franco-Russian space relations for the French Embassy in Moscow. At the same time, he acted as the liaison between the Kaliningrad's Russian Space Control Center (near Moscow) and the crew of the MIR Station during the entire MIR 95 mission.
In 1996 he is chosen as a substitute crew member for the PEGASUS spaceflight.
PERSEUS Mission
At the conclusion of this flight, Jean-Pierre HAIGNERÉ joins the Center for European Astronauts in Cologne, Germany as Chief Astronaut of the ESA.
Education
In 1981, he graduated from the Empire Test Pilots School (EPTS) in Boscombe Down, England, after passing his final thesis on a Harrier plane (aircraft with vertical take-off and landing).
Upon his return to France, he is charged with the development of one of the versions of Mirage 2000 and of the in-flight presentation of the Dewoitine 520 at the Flight Test Center located in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
In 1983 he is named Chief Test Pilot. He logged 4200 flight hours on 102 different types of planes of which 1500 were for test flights. He holds commercial and test pilot licenses, as well as mountain and seaplane rating.
Hobbies
Honors
Married, 3 children
CNES Astronaut from 1985 to 1998
Named Chief Astronaut of the ESA in 1999 (Cologne, Germany)
2 flights on record
In 2002 Jean-Pierre Haigneré returned to the Paris-based headquarters of the European Space Agency (ESA)
Commander of the Legion of Honor
General in the French Air Force
Test Pilot
Jean-Pierre Haigneré was selected as an astronaut by the French National Space Agency in 1985. From 1986 to 1989 he directed the Manned Flight Division of the Hermes and Manned Flight Directorate and was involved in preliminary studies for the Hermes space plane.
He also developed and perfected the Zero G Caravelle program (parabolic flight) for which he was later named technical and operational officer-in-charge.
In December 1990, he underwent training at Star City, near Moscow, and was chosen as Michel Tognini's stand-in for the Franco-Russian Antarès space flight.
As a primary crew member for the fourth Franco-Russian Altaïr space mission from November 1992 through 2003, Jean-Pierre Haigneré practiced the execution of a dozen scientific experiments pertaining to life sciences, the behavior of fluids and materials in weightlessness in addition to pursued research of a more technological nature.
In May of 1998, Jean-Pierre HAIGNERÉ is elected member of the ESA's European Corps of Astronauts; he is named test pilot and first engineer of the primary flight crew aboard the MIR Space Station during the Franco-Russian Perseus Mission (February 22 - August 28 1999). This long duration mission (186 days) also involved a spacewalk (EVA) to perform biological and comet dust experiments outside of MIR.
Jean-Pierre HAIGNERÉ attended the French Air Force Academy at Salon-de-Provence and graduated with an engineering degree in 1971. He obtained his fighter pilot's license in 1973 and was a fighter pilot and squadron commander for the 13th squad of Colmar, on Mirage 5 and Mirage III E, until 1980.
In addition to piloting various types of aircrafts (including WWII planes and seaplanes), his interests include golf, skiing, playing tennis and reading.
Jean-Pierre Haigneré is Commander of the Legion of Honor, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, and the recipient of the Order of People's Friendship and Order for Personal Courage from the Russian Federation.
Roger Malina
Roger F Malina is an astronomer and editor. He is Director of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille and former Director of the NASA EUVE Observatory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and Secretary of Commission VI on Space Activities and Society. Roger Malina serves as the Chairman of the Board of Leonardo/ISAST in San Francisco and as the Executive Editor of the Leonardo publications, he is President of the Association Leonardo in Paris. He writes on art and science and is particularly interested in the cultural dimensions of space activities.
Takuro Osaka
Born in 1948 in Tokyo, he is considered as the pioneer of light art in Japan.
He initiated "Cosmic Ray Series" in 1995 and has had the continuity since then. This demonstrates that the cosmic rays captured by a detecting device are transformed into the blue LED.
"Lunar Project" was performed on July 16, 2000 when a long total eclipse of the moon took place. This project exhibited the layout and the installation to capture the moon light with 18 large mirrors over a rice field in Japan.
From 2001 on, he has been invited by the NASDA (National Space Development Agency of Japan) as fellow of "Space Art Projects" to join one of the "Feasibility studies" for space assets like the ISS. He has experienced micro gravity in parabolic flights to develop and research art projects in this environment.
Marko Pelhjan
Marko Peljhan, born 1969 in September pri Gorici, studied theatre and radio directing at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and in 1992 founded the arts organisation Projekt Atol in the frame of which he works in the performance, visual arts, situation and communications fields. In 1995 he founded the technological branch of Projekt Atol PACT SYSTEMS ; in 1999 he founded Projekt Atol Flight Operations. In 1995 he co-founded LJUDMILA and from 1996 on worked at LJUDMILA (Ljubljana Digital Media Lab) as a programs coordinator on many different fields. He is coordinator of the international INSULAR TECHNOLOGIES initiative (www.insular.net) and the Makrolab (makrolab.ljudmila.org) project as well as flight director of the parabolic flights with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Moscow. In 2001 he became member of the strategic council for information society established by the government of the Republic of Slovenia. He also invented and coordinated the production of a mobile media lab project, Transhub-01, which was first realized as Mobilatorij in 2002. His work was presented at major international exhibitions such as Documenta X in Kassel, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Ars Electronica, Media City Seoul, Gwangju Biennale, Manifesta and Venice Biennale. In 2000 he received the special Medienkunst prize at the ZKM and in 2001 the Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai for their work Polar. He is currently professor in Art and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara and director of Projekt Atol.
Frank Pietronigro
Frank Pietronigro is an interdisciplinary artist, educator and author. He is the first American painter to create "drift paintings" in zero gravity, aboard NASA's KC135 turbojet. His project was featured in the Sunday New York Times, Hot Wired and Leonardo. Pietronigro's work has been presented with institutions including: MIT's Center For Advanced Vidual Studies Sky Art Conference; Smart Project Space, Amsterdam; Museum Für Gestaltung, Zurich; Galeria Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon; and the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center. Pietronigro studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, the Multimedia Studies Program, San Francisco State University, and he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts, in Interdisciplinary Arts, from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.
Anna Piva
b. Feltre, Italy. Studied physics and philosophy at the Liceo Scientifico di Pordenone, and music at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Received a Masters Degree at the Universita' di Magistero di Bologna in 1986. 1987-2000, worked as a bass player with various groups, including Tricky and PJ Harvey. Founder member, arts group Flow Motion and electronic music group Hallucinator, 1998-present.
Thierry Pozzo
A Doctor in Behavioral Neurosciences, Professor at the Bourgogne University and director of INSERM/ERM team no. 0207 Motor Skills-Plasticity-Dysfunction in Dijon. His team is working on motor handicap due to ageing or to neurological, cardiovascular and osteo-articulary deficiencies. His research activities concentrate particularly on the issue of plasticity of balancing functions and their modeling. From an experimental point of view, these aspects are examined during locomotion in healthy elderly subjects and subjects placed in a condition of hypo-activity (microgravity or extended confinement to bed). Another aspect of his work and research concerns the study of relationships between action and perception, particularly in observing biological movement.
Mikhail Ryklin
Studied at Moscow State University, B. A. in Philosophy and Aesthetics, 1971 and at the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Ph.D. in History of Philosophy, 1978
Teaching and Research : Leading Researcher, Department of Philosophical Anthropology, Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, 1997-present.
Books
Book Editing and Commenting
Book Translations
Senior fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, February-May 2002 ;
Gastwissenschaftler, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, October 2001- January 2002.
Guest lecturer and invited professor in many Universities (Hannover, Berlin, Bremen, University of California San Diego, Strasbourg, EHESS, Paris).
Advisor, Open Society Institute, Moscow, 1995-1998; Member, New York Academy of Sciences, since 1994; Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell
Anjalika Sagar
Anjalika Sagar is a sound artist and curator based in London. As composer and artist, Sagar has collaborated with Talvin Singh and Jem Finer and is Resident at Berlin's Humboldt University Kittler Group/Bootlab in 2003. An Arts Council Fellow of 2001, Sagar is co-curator of the first "Retrospective on the work of the Black Audio Film Collective", supported by the International Institute of Visual Arts.
Denis Thierion
An engineer at the CNES (National Space Studies Center, French Space Agency). He took part in the major scientific space projects carried out in cooperation with the Soviet Union: Arcad 3 (a study of earth's magnetosphere), Vega (flyby of the planet Venus and encounter with Halley's comet), Granat (gamma telescope). He then worked for six years on the manned flight program as project leader for the flight of Jean-Loup Chrétien in 1988 and as technical manager for the flight of Michel Tognini in 1991. Since that time Denis Thierion has been project manager for "Recoverable Capsules" (flights of French scientific instruments on board Russian Photon recoverable capsules) and for the "Parabolic Flights" project.
Nicola Triscott
Director and founder of the Arts Catalyst, the UK science-art agency, (www.artscatalyst.org), which she set up in 1993 to promote dialogue, exchange and collaboration between artists and scientists. Arts Catalyst's mission is to extend, promote and activate a fundamental shift in the dialogue between art and science and its perception by the public. The organisation works nationally and internationally, pioneering new territories and venues for artistic practice, including nuclear science, space exploration, biotechnology, global systems, theoretical physics, and setting up multidisciplinary research laboratories, such as the zero gravity flights. Nicola has initiated and organised with colleagues three parabolic 'zero gravity' flight campaigns for scientists and artists with the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Star City, Russia, and she is also a co-investigator on science and movement experiments on European Space Agency parabolic flight campaigns with choreographer Kitsou Dubois and scientists from Imperial College London. Nicola studied physics and political geography at university and then, from 1985 - 1993, worked as an arts producer and administrator in a wide range of sectors, from commercial theatre production to community arts, before setting up Arts Catalyst 10 years ago.
Louise K. Wilson
Louise K Wilson is a British artist, born in 1965; she studied Fine Art at the University of Northumbria and Studio Arts (Open Media) at Concordia University in Montreal where she completed a MFA in March 1996. She has exhibited widely in Europe and North America, most recently in "Memory and Forgetting" at the Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle; "Open Plan" at Leeds City Art Gallery (2002); "East of Eden", Spacex Gallery, Exeter (2001); "Space Camp", Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada, (2000); "Dreams in the Void", Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, (2000) and "Spectacular Bodies", Hayward Gallery (2000). She has undertaken many artist residencies and commissions and produced site-specific mixed media pieces in diverse spaces including cinemas, museums, hospitals, industrial plants, and sculptures parks as well as in art galleries. Her recent curatorial project "Flock" (which opened at Spacex Gallery in 2003) explores the relationship between humans and wild birds.
May the Force be with you
Text : May the Force be with you
Transpermia : the Dédalo Project
Abstract:
Text : Transpermia - Dédalo Project
Visibility - Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: the experience of parabolic flights
Abstract:
Text : The Reasons for a Symposium
From Lived Experience to Creation: Trajectories and Analogies
Abstract:
Text : Body, movement, dance and weightlessness
Initial report 3.0 on the pilot study on the minimal behavioural preconditions for the partial demilitarization of permanent habitation in microgravity
by the Otolith Group of Kodwo Eshun, Richard Couzins and Anjalika Sagar.
Abstract:
Kaplegraf 0g (drop orbits)
Text : Kaplegraf 0g (drops orbits)
FLOW MOTION: Anna Piva and Edward George
Kosmos in blue
Abstract:
Text : Flow Motion: Out There
An artist in space - an achievable goal?
Abstract:
Text : An artist in space - an achievable goal?
"Entre réel et virtuel, repérages"
Contextualizing Zero Gravity Art
Text : Contextualising Zero Gravity Art
The new viewpoint from the world.-Zero G
Abstract:
Text : The new viewpoint from the world.-Zero G
Projekt Atol Flight Operations, The Slovenian Space Agency and Makrolab
Abstract:
Text : Projekt Atol Flight Operations And The MIR Network
'Drift Painting' In Microgravity
Abstract:
Text : 'Drift Painting' In Microgravity
Visual Perception of the Living
Text : Gravitational Field, Bodily Equilibrium and Perceptive Activity
The Russian-Soviet Cosmism in Zero-Gravity
Abstract:
Text : The Russian-Soviet Cosmism in Zero-Gravity
Access to micro-gravity. Parabolic Flights
Abstract:
Text : Access to micro-gravity. Parabolic Flights. A300 ZERO-G
The Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory
Text : The Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory
On the history of parabolic flight and on feeling sick
Abstract:
Text : On the history of parabolic flight and on feeling sick…
Alex Adriaansens
(Dialogue avec Jacques André, Observatoire de l'Espace du CNES)
Cosmic Wind Bell and Sound Wave Sculpture are the works materialized only in Zero G. Since the motion of an eye differed from the ground, the art of the light using the afterimage was also tried.
My biggest surprise in experiencing weightlessness is having felt it very natural to float in the air.
One of Japanese astronauts said, "Man is made so that it may advance to space." I also felt the same thing after Parabolic flight.
I report the experiment of Zero G Art and the proposal from the new viewpoint which has been in sight through such an experience.
I write and wonder what meaning my experience offers.
In free fall, for example, all of the contact forces are negated and an accelerometer will show a reading of 0g because the acceleration is equal to gravity.
These same phenomena will occur for a plane on which the sum of the exterior forces is equal to the gravitational force alone. This is the case, for example, during a parabolic flight when the traction and the lag cancel one another out and the load-bearing capacity is equal to zero.
Originally conceived as a preparation and training tool for cosmonauts, parabolic flights proved to be an economical means to attain microgravity. Indeed, with the proper safety precautions, laboratory equipment can be loaded onto the plane and scientists aboard the aircraft will have the ability to test, advance and optimize scientific protocols. This is an important feature of parabolic flights, one that makes them of great interest to the scientific community.