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Biopoetic investigations – Agnes Meyer Brandis
The work of artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis creates new stories, at the same time fantastical and believable, through the fusion of detailed factual research and enchanting fiction. Her new work The Moon...
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Republic of the Moon opens in Liverpool 16 December
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, We Colonised the Moon, Andy Gracie, Leonid Tishkov, Liliane Lijn, Sharon Houkema FACT, Wood Street, Liverpool 16 December 2011 – 26 February 2012 Open daily (except 24-26...
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Lunar dreamers: occupy the moon!
In Tony White’s new short story, Occupy the Moon, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst to mark the opening of our latest exhibition, Republic of the Moon, at FACT in Liverpool, the author contemplates a...
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Performance, theatre and science
Last week, I went to Curious Directive’s show Your Last Breath. Curious Directive create devised theatre works incorporating scientific ideas, and this piece tells the story of an extreme skiing...
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Is there any poetic meaning in Baumgartner’s fall to Earth?
Yesterday, nearly 8 million of us watched another human being jump off a narrow ledge 24 miles above the Earth. As Felix Baumgartner’s capsule rose into the air, attached to an astonishing piece of...
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War at the speed of light: artists and drone warfare
“We call it in, and we’re given all the clearances that are necessary, all the approvals and everything else, and then we do something called the Light of God – the Marines like to call it the Light of...
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The performance (and performativity) of science
The text of short talk that I gave at DASER in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago, as part of a themed event on science and performance (you can also watch it here – and see the other speakers’...
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Aerocene – flight without borders
In the dunes of White Sands desert, on Sunday 8th November 2015, for the first time in the world, a registered solar heat powered balloon carrying a human person floated for more than 2 hours without...
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Trust and the taste of flesh: the ethics of Martin O’Brien’s zombie performance
The first three articles from the Trust Me, I’m an Artist project (funded by Creative Europe) have just been published online, which gives me an excuse to reflect back on the subject of all three texts...
View ArticleDreamed Native Ancestry (DNA) : Re-thinking race and migration
In 1977, NASA launched two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, into space to study the outer solar system. Passing beyond our sun’s planetaryContinue reading
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