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Zero Genie, Jem Finer & Ansuman Biswas, 2001
Artists & Cosmonauts
Jem Finer, Flow Motion, Trevor Mathison, Andrew Kotting, Morag Wightman, Andrey & Julia Velikanov, Kitsou Dubois
Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells, London, UK
Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London W1, UK
01/03/2002 – 19/04/2002
Four evenings of artists' film and performance, talks and presentations, featuring legendary Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev
Scientists, philosophers and artists from Britain and Russia present reflections on the Russian space programme and the nature of living in space. With the legendary Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, member of the first mission to the new International Space Station.
Friday 1 & Saturday 2 March 2002 - Lilian Baylis Theatre
MIR Flight 001
New works from The Arts Catalyst's MIR Flight 001, a multidisciplinary microgravity research laboratory for artists, scientists and philosophers at Star City, Russia.
Gravity: A Love Story - Morag Wightman & Craos Mor
Zero Genies - Jem Finer & Ansuman Biswas
Wave Particle - Jem Finer & Ansuman Biswas
Kosmos in Blue - Flow Motion
Too G - Andrew Kotting
Universal Substitute - Andrey & Julia Velkanov
MIR - Masha Chuikova
Plus talks/presentations by Anthony Bull, Marko Peljhan, Kevin Fong, Louise K Wilson, Mikhail Ryklin, Anna Alchuk, Alexei Blinov
Friday 15 March 2002 - Institute of Physics
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev
In one of the most beautiful sequences of the film 'Out of the Present' by Berlin film-maker Andrei Ujica, the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, alone in space on the Mir Space Station, contemplates the rivers, the continents, the perfect sphere or a real world in the setting sun: meanwhile way down below the tanks rumble and humanity, though invisible, stirs restlessly during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Now part of the team of cosmonauts and astronauts building the International Space Station, Krikalev - arguably the human who has lived longest in space - makes a rare personal appearance between missions to debate on issues of culture and space with the artists and cosmonauts team.
Friday 19 April 2002 - Lilian Baylis Theatre
A Dancer in Weightlessness
Kitsou Dubois presented the premiere of her film (with Eric Duranteau), 'Trajectoire Fluide' (Fluid Trajectory), emerging from her 4-year research project with the Biodynamics Group at Imperial College. Bob Shroter, Head of the Biodynamics Group, contextualises the project, and Nick Davey, lead scientific investigator gives a talk and demonstration of the scientific research aspects of the programme.