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{Ask a weightlessness dancer} Last day to ask your questions to Jeanne Morel about her weightlessness dances aboard a 0G plane !

We'll meet her next week for an interview, what would you like to ask her ? Write in comment !

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Where people go, art follows

Originally published in a 2006 issue of Fifty3 Magazine (Volume 7 Issue 2) Neil Parmar’s article “Art in Space” shines light onto the seemingly unusual crossroads between space travel and art.

In this issue of From the Archives, we examine a timeline of people’s efforts to bring art to space and create art in the vacuum.

Space has been an art subject for centuries, but prior to 1969 little had been done to actually bring art into space in any capacity, let alone have it exhibited or created in space. Since then, numerous artist groups and space agencies have collaborated on bringing art to space, while also exploring the topic of space travel through artistic media. This article will chronicle some of the most significant explorations of this union between artistic expression and space travel.

Let’s start in 1969 with Andy Warhol’s penis, which alongside a straight line drawn by Robert Rauschenberg, an image of Mickey Mouse by Claes Oldenberg and geometric designs by John Chamberlain, Forrest Myers and David Novros was sent into orbit on a small ceramic tile carried aboard the Apollo 12. This ceramic tile, which was only three quarters of an inch by half an inch in size and entitled “The Moon Museum” is considered to be the first art object be flown into orbit.

Image Courtesy of History Detectives on PBS

Three years later, in 1971, Paul Van Hoeydonck’s 3.3 inch aluminium sculpture of an astronaut in a spacesuit found itself aboard the Apollo 15, which carried the object to the moon on August 1st that same year. The figurine was accompanied by a plaque commemorating 14 men that had died in the advancement of space exploration and is still on the moon today.

After Fallen Astronaut, no new artworks were sent into orbit until 1984, when Joseph McShane’s sculpture S.P.A.C.E. was brought into orbit on the space shuttle Challenger. S.P.A.C.E. included a system of spheres with attached valves that were opened in the vacuum of space and resealed, essentially capturing the atmosphere and zero gravity of space to be brought back to earth.

In 1986, Howard Wishnow conceived of an art conservation experiment entitled “Vertical Horizons”. The experiment, which involved sending four Ellery Kurtz oil paintings into outer space on board the Space Shuttle Columbia, was designed to see how fine art materials withstood spaceflight. The experiment found that short-term spaceflight is not inherently damaging to fine art materials or art works. Like many other artworks sent into space, Vertical Horizons took advantage of NASA’s Get Away Special program, which allows any interested individual or group to send small experiments into space for a fee.

Image Courtesy of Ars Astronautica

Other 1980’s efforts include Ezra Orion creating a light sculpture by pointing a laser at the milky way and Lowry Burgess sending a self-contained, non-scientific payload into space which held every element known to man and water samples from all the world’s rivers.

Image Courtesy of Arts Block

The 1990’s marked a significant increase in art-based space exploration, starting in 1991 with Richard Kriesche interactive video performance being transmitted aboard the Russian Mir space station. The Mir space station (which was in orbit from 1986 to 2001) would become the sight of numerous other artistic endeavours during the 1990s. For instance, in 1993, Arthur Woods’ sculpture Cosmic Dancer, was sent aboard the Mir to investigate the properties of sculpture in weightlessness and evaluate how the presence of art affected the quality of life aboard the space station.

Image Courtesy of Gennadi Manakov and Alexander Polischuk

Two years later, in 1995, The OURS Foundation, which was established by Arthur Woods in 1990 to develop art projects for space, realized the first art exhibition in Earth’s orbit. The exhibition, entitled Ars ad Astra, included 20 A4 sized works from numerous artists from around the globe.

Image Courtesy of Ars Ad Astra

1999 brought about a more direct collaboration between arts groups and space agencies, when the London based arts group The Arts Catalyst, collaborated with the European Space Agency and the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre to execute numerous zero gravity performance art pieces. These performance art pieces took place between 1999 and 2004 and include performances such as the choreographer Kitsou Dubois’ Zero Gravity, where she investigated the ability of her dancers to control defined movements in zero gravity. Neil Parmar highlights the significance of this collaboration in his article.

Image Courtesy of The Arts Catalyst

“Getting art into space isn’t a new idea. And, technically it's already been done before. But there’s a new twist to an old obsession: how do we get scientists to link space and art together, instead of thinking of art as a mere afterthought” says Parmar.

As our chronicle takes us into 2005, the link between artistic expression and space exploration has become commonplace and the accomplishments in this field have now become too numerous to list in totality. Recent endeavours include French Street Artist Invader’s Art4Space initiative, which coordinated the departure of two of the artists works into space in 2012 and 2015. In 2016, NASA sent an open invitation for artworks to be sent into outer space via the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, which launched in September that year. In February of 2017, the first sculpture created in outer space was 3-D printed on the International Space Station.This last march, the Calgary based RumbleSat Art in Space Mission ventured to send 150 canadian artworks into space aboard three canadian space agency payloads.

Image Courtesy of @invaderwashere

What was once a trivial relationship has now flourished into a mutually beneficial marriage between two historically separate disciplines. While at one point the idea of linking artistic expression and space travel may have left us asking how or why, it is clear that only one question remains, what’s next?

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The Space Song Foundation

The new Space Song Foundation is a non-profit organization promoting long-term thinking at the intersection of art, science and design on Earth and in outer space. 

One of the organizations current projects features the “Tree of Life” - a 200-year global art/science project composed of earthly trees *singing* a duet with an orbiting spacecraft about their living/operating conditions. The project engages sustainable design on Earth and in outer space, and provides a platform for us to think long-term about the future of our planet, our ecosystem, and our species––at a time when we could all use a little hope.

Want to know more? Follow this link!

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