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		Artists & Cosmonauts Sadlers Wells & Institute of Physics, London March/April 2002 Four evenings of film, performance and talks where scientists, philosophers and artists from Britain and Russia were joined by a true cosmonaut hero, Sergei Krikalev, the last Soviet citizen (stranded on the MIR Space Station during the coup against Gorbachev) and a member of the first mission to the new International Space Station. MIR Flight 001 Fri 1 & Sat 2 March 2002 Presenting new works from Arts Catalyst's MIR Flight 001, a multidisciplinary microgravity research laboratory for artists, scientists and philosophers at Star City, Russia. Premieres of: 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 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev Fri 15 March 2002 The legendary Russian cosmonaut who has flown on the Russian Mir space station, staying for several months during the collapse of the Soviet Union, the American Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. Krikalev will talk of his experiences in space and answer questions from an audience of artists and general public. The events seeks to explore the personal experience of space on a cultural/personal level. A Dancer in Weightlessness Fri 19 April 2002 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.