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13 July KOSMICA line up announced

28/06/2011

Wednesday 13 July 2011

Carey Young will discuss her recent artistic works which critique and satirise the ‘management’ and legal control of outer space. Using recent discoveries in astrophysics and space imaging, as well as creating new propositions in copyright law, her works use cameraless photography, installation, text and sculpture to investigate links between outer space law and ideas of landscape, colonialism and the ‘real’. Her touring solo show Memento Park is currently at mima, Middlesbrough.

Empress Stah is a London based aerial artist and avant garde cabaret performer with a life long ambition to make a show in Outer Space. Stah recently came one step closer to realising this dream when she experienced microgravity for the first time, aboard a commercial flight with the Zero G Corporation.  She will be presenting footage taken aboard this flight and will talk about the thinking behind her project 'Stah-Lite in Space'; what she intends to do in Zero G when she gets her hands on the Russian's plane; and will outline her vision for her forthcoming show 'Stah-Lite and the Stah Whores Corporation'.

Ansuman Biswas works in a wide variety of media, but his central concern lies between science, work and religion. For the last decade he has been working on 'Zero Genie' projects conceived as a response to the structure and history of the space program  and its exploration as a First World, high investment pursuit over the last 50 years.  The Zero Genie project is a collaboration with Jem Finer, who appeared in June's KOSMICA.

The KOSMICA series is curated by Nahum Mantra and is endorsed by ITACCUS, the International Astronautical Federation's Committee on the Cultural Utilisation of Space.

The event will be live streamed and you can watch on: www.artscatalyst.org   

KOSMICA is a free event, but space is limited so please book today.

Directions to The Arts Catalyst can be found here.  The event will be held on the first floor and there is no lift; please contact The Arts Catalyst to discuss any specific access needs.

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