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Envoi de ewen le 06 Septembre 2003 22:15:59:
Symposium
Visibility - Legibility of Space Art.
Art and Zero G. : the experience of parabolic flights
October 4th - 5th 2003
@rt Outsiders
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5/7 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
Métro : Saint-Paul
Curated by Annick Bureaud, the Visibility - Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights symposium is the product of a collaboration between the @rt Outsiders International Festival (http://www.art-outsiders.com) and Leonardo/Olats (http://www.olats.org).
Whether it is in the scientific, commercial or artistic field, space exploration introduces extremely diverse practices. This year, the @rt Outsiders International Festival 2003 proposes to investigate some of these practices within the world of contemporary art.
The sensation of weightlessness, of "floating," "flying," "freely" in three dimensions, of "holding still" without support and without fear of falling, is one of the more tenacious dreams, desires - fantasies? - and surely one of the chief reasons human beings succumb to the urge to venture outside of their native planet. For many artists, creating work in, with, for, or about this condition of "zero gravity" is an artistic re-examination extending far beyond the dream.
With the exception of a few cosmonauts or astronauts who are also painters, such as the Russian Alexei Leonov, to this day no artist has been able to "live" weightlessness in a durable fashion aboard a space station or the American shuttle. On Earth, the parabolic flight remains the sole means of experiencing this unique condition.
In a parabolic flight, a specially equipped plane describes a series of parabolas in the air (bell-shaped curves with a 45° angle). In the "climbing" phase, gravity goes from 1 G. (normal terrestrial gravity) to 2 G. for 20 seconds before attaining the weightless phase at the "top of the curve" for approximately 25 seconds. During the "descent" phase of the flight, the plane returns to the 2 G. phase for roughly 20 seconds. The cycle is repeated.
Thus, the parabolic flight can be described as a succession of very short periods (2 G. - 0 G. - 2 G. - 1 G) constituting a rather exceptional environment, where the experience of weightlessness is "framed" by moments of 2 G.
Although access to parabolic flights remains a challenge for artists, to date 22 have been able to work with and within their unique environment. Thus, we have a very diverse body of work and projects at our disposal (ranging from dance to performance, sculpture, painting, sound/music, video, etc.) by artists from different artistic horizons and diverse cultures (France, Japan, Spain, Russia, United States, Great Britain, etc…).
Within the category of space art, creation during parabolic flights constitutes a comprehensive subgroup that defines a "common base" from which to conduct an artistic and aesthetic analysis of these practices. This is the challenge of this symposium. Thus, the Visibility - Legibility of Space Art. Art and Zero Gravity: The Experience of Parabolic Flights symposium proposes to:
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present the details of parabolic flights and consider the main issues outside of their spectacular nature;
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specify their different roles within the creative process. Often perceived as the space where creation takes place (site of performance and exhibition), parabolic flights are first and foremost the space of experimentation (a "studio" or creative workshop) as well as the material for creation;
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conduct a preliminary aesthetic analysis of the works: what is their form, what do they say, how do they relate to contemporary art and to techno-scientific art in general, in what way are they "informed" by weightlessness and the environment that constitutes the flight? etc.;
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highlight the importance of these works within a broader artistic process;
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raise questions regarding the "visibility" and "legibility" of the work, to question art critic.
This symposium gathers artists, theorists as well as parabolic flight specialists.
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