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Whitechapel Art Gallery, Angel Alley Entrance, 80 - 82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1
Wednesday 4 June 2008
6.30pm: first screening
8.00pm: second screening
Tickets free but booking essential from admin@artscatalyst.org
SpaceBaby is a 20-minute semi-fictional video journey into genetic space. It is the latest addition to London Fieldworks’ Hibernator, a trilogy of installation and video works connecting myth and science, environmental cues and technological control, the virtual worlds we imagine and the real world we cannot escape. It mixes laboratory procedure with physical performance, CGI, narrative and sound. Human guinea pigs, fruit flies and lab rats are seen inhabiting a hallucinatory 24-hour world where night and day are interchangeable. It will be screened at the Whitechapel Art Gallery Auditorium on 4 June 2008.
Working with writer Ken Hollings and composer Dugal McKinnon, London Fieldworks artists Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist have used documentary footage of the live SpaceBaby experiment (staged at the Roundhouse in 2006 as part of The Arts Catalyst’s Space Soon) along with resulting data and footage shot around the capital. The narrative is played out in a world where everyone on earth appears to have fallen into a sleep-like trance. Has the whole planet stopped moving or merely its inhabitants?
About London Fieldworks
London Fieldworks is an art partnership, founded by Bruce Gilchrist and
Jo Joelson in 2000. Their multidisciplinary projects reflect an ongoing interest into how the data of natural phenomena and human experience are interpreted and manifested in both science and art.
More information at www.londonfieldworks.com.
