The Arts Catalyst is working to promote and facilitate artists' access to and utilisation of space and space facilities.
We are currently involved in a number of initiatives, including:
Cultural Utilisation of Space Study for the European Space Agency
The Arts Catalyst has an ongoing contract with the European Space Agency to develop a cultural utilisation programme for the human spaceflight, microgravity and exploration division.
Updates on the study's activities >>>
ITACCUS (IAF Committee on the Cultural Utilisation of Space)
The Arts Catalyst is a founder member of ITACCUS, a new committee of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). The Director of The Arts Catalyst, Nicola Triscott, is the current Co-Chair, and recently spoke on behalf of ITACCUS at the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
ITACCUS webpage >>>
Less Remote:
International Arts & Humanities Symposium on the Futures of Space
2-day symposium at the International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, September/October 2008.
More details >>>
MIR (Microgravity Interdisciplinary Research)
A consortium of European arts organisations which, under the leadership of The Arts Catalyst and Projekt Atol, organised a series of parabolic 'zero gravity' flights for artistic experimentation with the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, Star City Moscow. The programme was funded by the European Commission, the Arts Council of England and others.
More details of the MIR projects >>>
Other Arts Catalyst space-related activities >>>
