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<font size="4">Dear Spectrites,<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">I am super excited to
share the information about the 10 year project <i>Venus
Conversations
2024-2034</i>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">a
series of dialogues and
art projects launching from the planet Venus to explore
cultural, scientific
and artistic forcefields, </b>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).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">More info below with
full press release but you can also check directly our website
and instagram.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Here are the main
links to this project</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Website</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book""> </span><a
href="https://lilyhibberd.com/venus-conversations.html"><span
style="font-family:
"Avenir Book";color:#7B219F">Venus Conversations</span></a><span
class="MsoHyperlink"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#7B219F"> -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tinyurl.com/ytv9vewe">https://tinyurl.com/ytv9vewe</a></span></span><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Email</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book""> </span><a
href="mailto:VenusConversations@pm.me"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";
color:#7B219F">VenusConversations@pm.me</span></a><span
style="font-family:
"Avenir Book""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">Instagram </span></b><a
href="https://www.instagram.com/venus_conversations/"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#7B219F;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">@Venus_Conversations</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"><br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">---------------------------</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span
style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Aptos;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Press
Release</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span
style="font-size:17.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;
mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Aptos;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Venus
Conversations 2024-2034</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span
style="mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:Aptos;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Launch Saturday
23 November 2024 <br>
</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Aptos;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"
lang="EN-GB">4pm-6pm</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
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Aptos;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span
style="mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-ascii-theme-font:
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mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri"
lang="EN-GB">Dana Research
Centre and Library, Science Museum, London</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:4.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><br>
</span><span style="mso-no-proof:yes" lang="EN-GB"><img
src="cid:part1.nzR0ViM7.7ZmAUALt@gmail.com" width="453"
height="150"></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:6.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><u><span lang="EN-GB">For immediate release, 22 October 2024</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:4.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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. <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Venus
Conversations 2024-2034</i> 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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Venus
Conversations 2024-2034</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> is a
series of dialogues
and art projects launching from the planet Venus to explore
cultural,
scientific and artistic forcefields.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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.’ </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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.’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Project launch, Saturday 23 November 2024,
4-6pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The
first in a
decade of transnational conversations, the three co-organizers
will share their
vision for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Venus
Conversations 2024-2034</i>,
along with curators from the Science Museum, and scientists
leading the
EnVision ESA-NASA mission to Venus, as well as the audience.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">A
Q&A
session will follow and the audience will be invited to join in
discussion with
the speakers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Science
Museum
curators Laura Joy Pieters (Mathematical Sciences, Astronomy),
and Rebecca
Mellor (Exhibitions) will speak about the presence of Venus in
the collections.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Other
invited
conversationalists include social scientist Saskia Vermeylen
(UK), and
international artists Michèle Boulogne (FR/NL), Oscar Santillán
(ECU/NL), and
Andrey </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Shental
(DE/RU).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:
Aptos;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"
lang="EN-GB">The <i>Venus
Conversations 2024-2034</i> 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).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:
Aptos;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:Times"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bookings are required for this free event and
places
are limited</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Email
now to
register your interest <a href="about:blank"><span
style="color:#A02B93">VenusConversations@pm.me</span></a></span><span
style="mso-ascii-font-family:Aptos;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-font-family:Aptos;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
Times" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#A02B93" lang="EN-GB"><span
style="text-decoration:none"> </span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Time </span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">4pm-6pm<b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Location</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> Dana Research Centre and
Library</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">165 Queen’s Gate, London
SW7 5HD, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Note: this venue is
not
accessible from the Science Museum building</span></i><span
lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB">Contact</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">For
more
information and to arrange interviews or images contact <a
href="about:blank"><span style="color:#A02B93">VenusConversations@pm.me</span></a><u><span
style="color:#A02B93"></span></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:FR">Web </span><span
lang="EN-GB"><a
href="https://lilyhibberd.com/venus-conversations.html"><span
style="color:#A02B93;mso-ansi-language:FR" lang="FR">Venus
Conversations</span></a></span><span
style="mso-ansi-language:FR"> / Instagram </span><span
lang="EN-GB"><a
href="https://www.instagram.com/venus_conversations/"><span
style="color:#A02B93;mso-ansi-language:FR" lang="FR">@VENUS_CONVERSATIONS</span></a></span><span
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