[spectre] Venus Conversations 2024 - 2034

Annick Bureaud abureaud at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 09:59:43 CEST 2024 

Dear Spectrites,

I am super excited to share the information about the 10 
year project /Venus Conversations 2024-2034/, *a series of 
dialogues and art projects launching from the planet Venus 
to explore cultural, scientific and artistic forcefields, 
*initiated by artist Lily Hibberd (AUS/FR) with art-science 
curator and scholar Claudia Schnugg (AT) and myself Annick 
Bureaud, art critic and independent curator (FR).

Our first Conversation will take place at the London Science 
Museum's Dana Research Centre 23 November 2024, 4-6 pm. It 
is free, but you need to register.

More info below with full press release but you can also 
check directly our website and instagram.

Here are the main links to this project

*Website*Venus Conversations 
<https://lilyhibberd.com/venus-conversations.html>- 
https://tinyurl.com/ytv9vewe

*Email*VenusConversations at pm.me 
<mailto:VenusConversations at pm.me>

*Instagram *@Venus_Conversations 
<https://www.instagram.com/venus_conversations/>


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*Press Release*

*Venus Conversations 2024-2034*

*Launch Saturday 23 November 2024
**4pm-6pm***

*Dana Research Centre and Library, Science Museum, London*

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*_For immediate release, 22 October 2024_*

Venus is our twin planet, the most visible celestial object 
in the night sky after the Sun and Moon. And yet it has been 
marginalized in cultural imagination and space science for 
almost half a century. /Venus Conversations 2024-2034/ turns 
our attention to Venus once again to embrace its pivotal 
place in human cultural history and to prepare for a new era 
of discovery as seven or more scientific missions will 
return to our neighbouring planet in the next decade.

*/Venus Conversations 2024-2034/is a series of dialogues and 
art projects launching from the planet Venus to explore 
cultural, scientific and artistic forcefields.*

This ten-year project is initiated by artist Lily Hibberd 
(AUS/FR) with art critic and independent curator Annick 
Bureaud (FR), and art-science curator and scholar Claudia 
Schnugg (AT).

>From 2025, artists, curators, and scientists will be 
supported to develop conversations around Venus. Creative 
outcomes include gatherings, research visits, performances, 
exhibitions, publications and podcasts in different 
locations worldwide. An exhibition will be timed to coincide 
with the launch of the EnVision ESA-NASA mission to Venus 
planned for 2031.

The project aims to establish a strong creative community 
around Venus to transform how the planet is understood and 
represented as a cultural, artistic and scientific object. A 
collective approach will empower more inclusive ways of 
doing art & science.

Co-organizer Lily Hibberd says, ‘The planet Venus has been a 
powerful celestial and cultural object and artistic 
inspiration for millennia. It is a pivotal timekeeper and 
ritual tool that traverses gender and cultural archetypes, 
making it a prevalent medium for art today.’

EnVision ESA-NASA mission and Imperial College scientist Dr 
Philippa Mason emphasizes that, ‘It may seem surprising that 
so little is known about our closest planetary neighbour but 
Venus holds the answers to many important questions about 
the evolution of rocky planets in the solar system and 
beyond. Unravelling the story of Venus’ evolution may 
therefore be a vital key to understanding how a planet can 
become or cease to be habitable.’

*Project launch, Saturday 23 November 2024, 4-6pm*

The first in a decade of transnational conversations, the 
three co-organizers will share their vision for /Venus 
Conversations 2024-2034/, along with curators from the 
Science Museum, and scientists leading the EnVision ESA-NASA 
mission to Venus, as well as the audience.

A Q&A session will follow and the audience will be invited 
to join in discussion with the speakers.

Science Museum curators Laura Joy Pieters (Mathematical 
Sciences, Astronomy), and Rebecca Mellor (Exhibitions) will 
speak about the presence of Venus in the collections.

Venus scientists attending are Gerard Gallardo i Peres (UK), 
along with Philippa Mason (UK) and Thomas Widemann (FR), who 
are also representing the ESA-NASA EnVision Venus mission 
launching in 2031.

Other invited conversationalists include social scientist 
Saskia Vermeylen (UK), and international artists Michèle 
Boulogne (FR/NL), Oscar Santillán (ECU/NL), and Andrey

Shental (DE/RU).

The /Venus Conversations 2024-2034/ documentary exhibition 
curated for the launch presents reproductions of 
contemporary artworks, Science Museum collection items, and 
current scientific research, all inspired by Venus. 
International artists represented are Michèle Boulogne 
(FR/NL), Lily Hibberd (AUS/FR), Anna Hoetjes (NL), Oscar 
Santillán (ECU/NL), Andrey Shental (DE/RU), Matt Smith 
(IR/UK), and Shireen Taweel (AUS).

*Bookings are required for this free event and places are 
limited*

Email now to register your interest VenusConversations at pm.me 
<about:blank>

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*Time *4pm-6pm**

*Location*Dana Research Centre and Library

165 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 5HD, UK

/Note: this venue is not accessible from the Science Museum 
building/

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*Contact*

For more information and to arrange interviews or images 
contact VenusConversations at pm.me <about:blank>__

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Web Venus Conversations 
<https://lilyhibberd.com/venus-conversations.html>/ 
Instagram @VENUS_CONVERSATIONS 
<https://www.instagram.com/venus_conversations/>
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