Dear Friends,
I am co-curating with Nahum Mantra ( Shunt ) and will be chairing this next edition of Kosmica, at the Arts Catalyst.To know more about the Arts Catalyst, please have a look into the website: http://www.artscatalyst.org/
Kosmica is a series of galactic gatherings for earth-bound artists, space engineers, performers, astronomers, musicians and anyone interested, explore and share space in original ways. Every session is unique: bringing together the cosmically curious and culturally quirky space community!
All of this happens in a very warm and friendly and relaxed atmosphere with passionate audiences. With an average of 80 people attending each session ( and a lovely bar!) and it is a free cosmic event.
I would be delighted to see you for this next Kosmica happening on the 7th June between 7:30 to 10pm. Please Book online ( and quick quick! as there is limited amount of tickets- but in any case just come!) http://www.artscatalyst.org/experiencelearning/detail/kosmica4/
The Arts Catalyst
50-54 Clerkenwell Road
London EC1M 5PS
Please see bellow our galactic programme:
Attached picture is the work of Julijonas Urbonas "Bodystorming"
Tuesday 7 June, KOSMICA - A matter of Gravity? 7-10PM
The 'Gravitational Theater'- Julijonas Urbonas
Julijonas Urbonas will talk about unique aesthetic manifestations of gravity in our highly technologised culture, from anti-gravitational shoes to deadly roller coaster.
Having worked within the field of amusement park development – as an architect, ride designer, head of fairground, – Julijonas Urbonas became fascinated by what he’s calling the bodily-perceived aesthetics of ‘gravitational theatre’. Since then the topic has been at the core of his creative life, from artistic work to scholarly articles. Most recently this interest has matured into his PhD research based in the department of Design Interactions at the RCA.
http://www.julijonasurbonas.lt
The moon life foundation. Alicia Framis
Alicia Framis is directing the Moon Life Foundation, Moon Life is 'speculating on the possibility that humans will live in space in the future'. The project acts as a "stimulus for artists, designers, architects to create futuristic radical political but humane concepts for an extreme lunar environment'.
Alongside running the Moon life Foundation, Alicia Framis is the Lost Astronaut – an performance-installation at APF LAB, exploring the potentialities of living on the moon through the ironical and fictional character and activities of a woman astronaut. Left on Earth like all women who were never part of the moon race, she settles in to BaseCamp, in which she lived for the 2 weeks in a customized astronaut suit, among drawings and prototypes that aim to both parody and demand women’s presence on the moon.
Alicia Framis,studied Fine Arts at the Barcelona University and at Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. She also completed her masters at the Institut d’Hautes Etudes, Paris and at the Rijksakademie Van Beelde Kunstende, Amsterdam. Her work investigates notions of national and group identities, the social mechanics of cities, and personal safety. She has exhibited internationally at institutions such as Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA; Triennale Yokohama, and the Venice Biennale.
http://moon-life.org/
www.aliciaframis.com
Who Owns Outer Space? - Dr Jill Stuart
While the 'Martians Chronicles' might soon become real facts, Dr Jill Stuart will be discussing with us the ownership of space, so that we know where to land! She will explain us the History of Cosmic Governance and the Future of Outer Space Law.
Dr Jill Stuart is Fellow in Global Politics at the London School of Economics, and is also reviews editor for the journal Global Policy. Her research interests include and the law, politics, and theory of outer space exploration and exploitation. She is also interested in the way terrestrial politics and conceptualisations such as sovereignty are projected into outer space, and how outer space in turn potentially plays a role in reconstituting how those politics and conceptualisations are understood in terrestrial politics.
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/Experts/[email protected]
http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/
On observatories and observing- Jem Finer
Come along and meet with one of our space genie, Jem Finer who experienced zero gravity, realized a 1000 year long musical composition( Longplayer), as well as being the Artist in Residence at the Astrophysics Sub-department of the University of Oxford between October 2003 and June 2005, making a number of works including two sculptural observatories, Landscope and The Centre of the Universe.
Also please only use these urls for him :
http://www.cosmolog.org.uk
http://longplayer.org
http://www.onearthasinheaven.net/
I look forwards to seeing you there!!
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If I don't see you at Kosmica, maybe I will in one of these events?
I will be speaking at :
-The Festarch Festival, International Architecture Festival organized by the design magazine Abitare in Perugia, Italy: 2 to 5th June 2011
-Sofia Design Week festival, in Bulgaria: 11-12th June 2011
-Create 2011, Symposium on The everyday language of creative practice , Shoreditch House: 23rd June 2011
-Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2011:Design,Science and Geographical Imaginaries: 31st Aug – 2nd Sep 2011
-Some of my work will be exhibited at the First Design Triennial at the National Museum of China, Beijing, China as part of the 'What if....." exhibition curated by Dunne & Raby: 28th September to 17th October 2011
Finally, I have been invited by Liam Young and Kate Davies at the Architectural Association ( AA) to join in July, a surrealist road trip from Chernobyl exclusion zone in the Ukraine to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. There is more about the project at Unknown Fields Division,
Each year they gather together a multi disciplinary group of international research students, architects, artists and writers around field trip to extraordinary landscape and industrial contexts, pockets of obsolete futures and techno catastrophes.
So let's meet up before I get back irradiated!
More to come soon!
Nelly
Nelly Ben Hayoun
Creative Director & Interactions Designer
29 Sunbury Workshops
Swanfield street
London E2 7LF
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