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Performance Art In Zero-G [ Next ] Artists are training to become the next generation of space explorers. A branch of space art involves artistic experiments which have taken place on airplanes doing parabolic flights inside the atmosphere. As such, these projects incorporate the effects of weightlessness into their production and artists have been able to personally experience the effects of micro-gravity.
1999. Slovenian theater director Dragan Zivadinov's staged a performance called "Noordung Zero Gravity Biomechanical" during a parabolic flight organized through the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training facility in Star City.
2000: The London based Arts Catalyst group organized a parabolic flight for choreographer Kitsou Dubois and three dancers, with the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, in association with Projekt Atol Flight Operations, as part of Dubois' collaborative research project with Imperial College. The 2000 flight also enabled other artists - video artist Mike Stubbs and Slovenia theatre director Dragan Zivadinov - and scientists Professor Susan McKenna-Lawlor and Dr Chris Welch, to experience zero gravity. 2000: A second group of artists from the San Francisco Art Institute led by Lorelei Lisowski followed Frank Pietronigro into weightlessness, again with art projects presented as science - on a NASA student parabolic flight. Lisowski's Space Camp Barbie was one 'non-science' projects that managed to sneak onto the flight. 2001: The Arts Catalyst organized M.I.R. Flight 001, enabling a number of artists and scientists to undertake projects in parabolic flight and in Star City. Projects included Ansuman Biswas and Jem Finer's Zero Genies and an installation of spherical gongs and colored liquids, a dance work by Morag Wightman, a scientific investigation into movement control conducted by Anthony Bull from Imperial College, and projects by artist Louise K Wilson, film-maker Andrew Kotting, electronic music group Flow Motion, and media artist Andrey Velikanov. The Arts Catalyst group is regularly organizing additional zero-g flights in which include both artists and scientists. The latest parabolic flight took place in April 2003. In both Europe and in the U.S. a growing number of artists have been taking advantage of the opportunity to personally experience weightlessness during parabolic flights. Click to continue: |
Kitsou
Dubois, a modern dance
choreographer living in Paris, underwent a series of parabolic
flights organized by the French Space Agency CNES in 1990 and in
1999 in order to assist astronauts adaptation to weightlessness.
She later translated this experience into a "modern ballet".
In September 2000, she made additional parabolic flights at the
Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
In 1998 Frank Pietronigro became the first American
to investigate art making in weightlessness with the creation of
acrylic paintings suspended in mid-air. Pietronigro flew his "
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