[Reader-list] [Announcements] Olats News n ° 4 - Art & Zero Gravity Symposium

[Melinda Klayman]

Leonardo Alert
>From Roger Malina
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Dear Leonardo Colleagues
 
I would like to bring to your attention this event co sponsored
by Leonado/OLATS
 
LEONARDO:OLATS CO-SPONSORS SYMPOSIUM ON ZERO GRAVITY ART
IN PARIS, FRANCE OCT 4, 5 2003

 
> Symposium Art and Zero Gravity
> http://www.olats.org
> 
> Visibility ­ Legibility of Space Art.
> Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights
> 
> October 4th and 5th 2003
> 
> International Festival @rt Outsiders
> Maison Européenne de la Photographie
> 5/7 rue de Fourcy
> 75004 Paris 
> Métro : Saint-Paul
> 
> Curated by Annick Bureaud, the Visibility ­ Legibility of Space Art.
> Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights symposium is a
> joint project between the @rt Outsiders International Festival
> (http://www.art-outsiders.com) and Leonardo/Olats (http://www.olats.org).
> 
> 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 ³studio² 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 ³informed² 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 ³visibility² and ³legibility² of the
> work, to question art critic.
> 
> This symposium gathers artists, theorists as well as parabolic flight
> specialists. 
> Alex Adriaansens, director V2, Rotterdam
> Marcel.li Antunez Roca, artist, Barcelona
> Kitsou Dubois, artist, Paris
> Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar, Richard Couzins, artists, London
> Vadim Fishkin, artist, Ljubljana/Moscow
> Flow Motion (Anna Piva & Edward George), artists, London
> Jean-Pierre Haigneré, spationaut, Paris
> Nicola Triscott & Rob LaFrenais, Arts Catalyst, London
> Roger Malina, astronomer, director of Leonardo, Marseille
> Takuro Osaka, artist, Tokyo
>  Marko Peljhan, artist, director Projekt Atol, Ljubjana
> Frank Pietronigro, artist, San Francisco
> Thierry Pozzo, researcher, Dijon
> Mikhail Ryklin, philosopher, Moscow,
> Denis Thierion, parabolic flight director, CNES, Toulouse
> Louise K. Wilson, artist, London
> 
> 
> 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 ³floating,² ³flying,² ³freely² in
> three dimensions, of ³holding still² 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 ³zero gravity² 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 ³live² 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
> ³climbing² phase, gravity goes from 1 G. (normal terrestrial gravity) to
> 2 G. for 20 seconds before attaining the weightless phase at the ³top of
> the curve² for approximately 25 seconds. During the ³descent² 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
> ³framed² 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, etcŠ).
> 
> Within the category of space art, creation during parabolic flights
> constitutes a comprehensive subgroup that defines a ³common base² from
> which to conduct an artistic and aesthetic analysis of these practices.
> This is the challenge of this symposium.
> 
>  


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