Anti-Gravitas:Using the arts to engage a broad public
- Paper number
IAC-05-E1.4.03
- Author
Ms. Nicola Triscott, The Arts Catalyst, United Kingdom
- Coauthor
Mr. Rob La Frenais, The Arts Catalyst, United Kingdom
- Year
2005
- Abstract
The Arts Catalyst is an independent arts and research organisation specialising in connections with science, space and related technologies. Since 1993, the Arts Catalyst has worked nationally and internationally to promote understanding and cooperation between the arts and sciences and to extend the practice of artists making cultural, creative and tactical use of space and space facilities. The Arts Catalyst commissions artworks that focus on accessing and investigating the ideas, images, technologies and data of space research and relating these to contemporary society’s preoccupations. In this way, it aims to reconnect the public’s perception of space to broader interests, existing space activities and the real cultural legacies of the 'Space Age'. Our aim is not to critique or gesture towards current space efforts. On the contrary, we are looking to enhance and embrace the excitement, expertise and speculation of current space exploration in order to realise an alternative vision and strategy. Our strategy is aimed at answering the questions that those outside government funded scientific bodies ask of such projects and giving access to those normally excluded. The Arts Catalyst seeks new ways to involve and engage a wide public audience in these ideas and runs a programme of exhibitions, performance events, multidisciplinary research labs, conferences, symposia, publications and educational activities. Such a programme represents a new form of knowledge transfer. It aims to give control and expression to those who are interested in the social and environmental trajectory of society in the past, today and in the future, focused on perceptions of space and current space programmes. This paper is new and original. It has not been presented at a previous meeting. Financing and attendance of an author at the IAC at Fukuoka to present the paper is assured.
- Abstract document
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