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| MIR ZERO-G FLIGHT 001 | MIR CAMPAIGN 2003|
Gravitation Off! (extract from documentation of the M.I.R. programme), The Arts Catalyst and various artists, 2000 - 2003
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MIR
March 18th 2001. The fragments of the MIR station splashed down in the South Pacific Ocean.
March 19th 2001. A small group of international specialists in art, science and media decided in a meeting in Paris to found the MIR network, an intercultural initiative to explore space in the 21st century.
The MIR founder members are:
MIR partners
Art Catalyst (UK)
Projekt Atol (Slovenia)
V2_ Organisation - Institute for the unstable media - (Netherlands)
Leonardo/Olats - Leonardo Observatory for the Arts and the Techno-Sciences (France)
MIR aims
The MIR initiative aims to open up space facilities by matching artistic processes and scientific research to give a new impulse to space art and space research.
Its activities include:
· Promotion of arts and cultural activity as part of the international space programme
· Access to space facilities for artistic practice
· Interdisciplinary research: artists and scientists working with and alongside each other
· Sharing of knowledge, gained experience and expertise with other artists, scientists and the public
Activities
The MIR project's activities have been:
1. Projects enabling artists and scientists to undertake projects in Star City, Russia, with the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, between 2001 and 2003
2. Discussions with the European Space Agency and other space agencies to explore the potential for cultural programmes within their activities.
Outputs
Two parabolic (zero gravity) flight campaigns at Star City:, enabling more than 50 artists, writers, curators, scientists and philosophers to experience and experiment in zero gravity and to discover the Russian space programme:
| MIR ZERO-G FLIGHT 001 | MIR CAMPAIGN 2003 |
March - April 2002: Artists & Cosmonauts. A season of events in London looking at the art and science of zero gravity. With cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, artists, scientists, philosophers and writers.
June 2003: Micro Gravity. Presentation, performance and seminar. V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
September 2003: Extremophiles. Conference and performance by Marcelli Antunez Roca. Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK
October - December 2003: Gravitation Off! Film commissioned by Art Outsiders Festival, Maison de la Photographie, Paris, France.
October 2003: Zero-G symposium, Maison de la Photographie, Paris, France
November - December 2003: MIR - Art in Variable Gravity. Exhibition of new works by Stefan Gec, Vadim Fishkin, Yuri Leiderman, Otolith Group, Andrew Kotting. Residency by Ewen Chardronnet. Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
March - June 2005: MIR - Dreams of Space. The exhibition presented new photographic, installation and video works by Stefan Gec, Yuri Leiderman, Otolith Group, Vadim Fishkin and Carey Young
This work then led to a tender led by The Arts Catalyst to the European Space Agency (ESA) to undertake a study on cultural utilisation of the International Space Station programme. This was successful and The Arts Catalyst has been working with ESA since 2005 on this study and its further developments. Click here for further information about this. The study took place under the uimbrella of the MIR initiatives and advised by the project partners.
