[spectre] Fw: MIR - Dreams of Space

[franck ancel]

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From: "The Arts Catalyst" <info at artscatalyst.org>
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Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 9:16 PM
Subject: MIR - Dreams of Space


The Arts Catalyst & Stills invite you to the launch of

MIR - Dreams of Space

Friday 18 March, 6-8 pm

Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
www.stills.org t +44 (0) 131 622 6200
Exhibition runs 19 March - 5 June

Vadim Fishkin (RU), Stefan Gec (UK), Yuri Leiderman (RU),
Otolith Group: Richard Couzins, Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar (UK),
Evgeni Nesterov (RU), Carey Young (UK)

MIR - Dreams of Space presents new photographic, installation and video
works by British and Russian artists reflecting the utopian idealism that
spurred the start of the space age and the enduring legacy of the Russian
quest for Space.

The works were created through the MIR programme, a unique initiative which
enables artists to work in conditions beyond the confines of Earth's gravity
- in zero gravity and hypergravity - using facilities at the Yuri Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, heart of the Russian space programme
and one of the former 'closed cities' of the Soviet Union.

50 years after the launch of Sputnik, and at the start of a new millennium,
with new aspirations to build the International Space Station and to reach
Mars, it is timely that artists are reclaiming these territories, in a
contemporary and very direct sense.

MIR was commissioned by The Arts Catalyst and the MIR Consortium, a group of
international organisations including Arts Catalyst, Projekt Atol (SLO) ,
V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (NL), Transmediale (D), Leonardo/OLATS
(FR/US), SpaceArtONe (FR), MoM (ESP) and the Multimedia Complex for Actual
Art (RU).

A programme of MIR documentary & artist films accompanies the exhibition,
including work by Andrew Kotting, Ewen Chardronnet, Ansuman Biswas & Jem
Finer, Morag Wightman and Marcel.li Antunez Roca

** ZERO GRAVITY: A Cultural User's Guide
This new book examines the work that the Arts Catalyst and the MIR
Consortium have carried out with artists and scientists in zero gravity and
explores the wider social and cultural context of this work. Edited by
Nicola Triscott and Rob la Frenais Essays by Eduardo Kac, Kodwo Eshun,
Marina Benjamin, Marko Peljhan, Mikhail Ryklin, Judith Palmer, Rob La
Frenais
£15/€22
Distributed by Cornerhouse Publications - www.cornerhouse.org

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