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SpaceBaby Video Screening+++++Less Remote+++++Glasgow

Less Remote: Arts/Humanities Symposium on Space Futures
30 Sep-1 Oct 2008 SEC, Glasgow, Scotland
International symposium at the 2008 International Astronautical Congress (IAC).

June 2008+++++SpaceBaby Video Launch+++++Whitechapel Gallery Cinema

SpaceBaby: Guinea Pigs Don't Dream
A new video work by London Fieldworks
script writer: Ken Hollings
composer: Dugal McKinnon
narrator: Roddy Maude-Roxby
duration: 22 minutes
Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst

SpaceBaby: Guinea Pigs Don't Dream is a 20-minute semi-fictional video journey into genetic space. It is the latest addition to London Fieldworks' Hibernator, a trilogy of installation and video works connecting myth and science, environmental cues and technological control, the virtual worlds we imagine and the real world we cannot escape. It mixes laboratory procedure with physical performance, CGI, narrative and sound. Human guinea pigs, fruit flies and lab rats are seen inhabiting a hallucinatory 24-hour world where night and day are interchangeable.

Working with writer Ken Hollings and composer Dugal McKinnon, London Fieldworks artists Jo Joelson and Bruce Gilchrist have used documentary footage of the live SpaceBaby experiment (staged at the Roundhouse in 2006 as part of The Arts Catalyst's Space Soon) along with resulting data and footage shot in molecular biology and sleep research labs.

Funded by Arts & Business (New Partners Award), AHRC and Arts Council England and sponsored by Affymextrix, Ambion, with collaborative support from Department of Genetics at University of Leicester.

Photo: Kristian Buus.

June 2008+++++BIPOLAR Book Launch+++++International Polar Year 2007-2008

BIPOLAR is a new interdisciplinary polar archive created for International Polar Year 2007-08. It follows the ground-breaking symposium held at the British Library in late 2007, which brought together leading artists, scholars, scientists and thinkers to explore how our knowledge of the Polar Regions is constructed and how it can be engaged.

Featuring essays from the renowned geographer Denis Cosgrove and Kathryn Yusoff, it also contains over 30 archives contributed by the symposium participants that investigate various records - visual, personal,historical, chemical, biological - that can enrich and extend our engagement with the Polar Regions and their effect on global environments.

Book specifications:
Publication date: June 2008
60 colour Illustrations
128 pages
Binding: softback
ISBN: 978-0-9534546-6-2

Published by The Arts Catalyst
Edited by Kathryn Yusoff
Design by Paul Khera
Essays by Denis Cosgrove and Kathryn Yusoff
Contributors: Eric Wolff, Heather Frazar, Nigel Clark, Rachel Weiss, Jean de Pomereu, London Fieldworks, Stephan Harrison, Marko Peljhan, Simon Naylor, Katrina Dean, Anne Brodie, Sverker Sorlin, Klaus Dodds, Weather Permitting, Jennifer Gabrys, Jane D. Marsching, Matthew Kurtz, Emilie Cameron, Simon Faithfull, Aqqaluk Lynge, Dinah Malloy Thonpson, Bernard Stonehouse, Caroline Gunn, Chris Caseldine, Chris Turney, Snaebjornsdottir/Wilson, Rita Cachao + Ines Nisa Rato, Bradon Smith + Benjamin Morros, Adrian S Edwards, Michael Bravo

Photo: Kathryn Yusoff