| Event ID: | 36108 |
| Contact Name: | Christopher Yeats |
| Contact Email: | info@vane.org.uk |
| Contact Phone: | +44(0)1912618281 |
| Organization: | Vane |
| Event Web Site: | https://www.vane.org.uk |
| Dates: | 7th October 2020 to 10th October 2020 |
| Physical Event: | Yes |
| Type: | Public |
| Start/End Type: | Starts During WSW |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| State/Province: | Tyne and Wear |
| City: | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Address: | First Floor, Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street |
| Location: | Vane |
| Event Name: | The Human Spaceship – Off Balance |
| Event Description: | 7-31 October 2020, Wednesday-Saturday, 12-5pm We are witnessing the most astounding change in ‘being human’ through cutting-edge astronomy and space exploration in the 21st century. ‘The Human Spaceship’ project employs visual art processes to examine these plans with the objective of creating an experimental installation of scale using extreme perspective, geometry, optical illusions and colour manipulation. Helen Schell has developed an observational document which investigates vision and visual perception in altered gravity conditions (as in long term human spaceflight). During the Covid-19 lockdown, Schell has used this information to create an installation that is made up of many component parts using a variety of drawing and painting techniques. In ‘The Human Spaceship – Off Balance’, Schell uses multiple optical illusions, destabilising the spectator through images depicting visual vibration similar to space conditions, creating a sensation of being ‘off balance’.The exhibition has been informed by a research trip to Houston, USA, in 2019. Schell was invited to be guest artist at Rice University, Texas, meeting with leading human spaceflight scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (base for the Artemis Mission, that has the goal of landing the first female astronaut and next male astronaut on the Moon in 2024). This visit also included the Rice Space Institute, the Lunar and Interplanetary Institute, and Baylor Center for Space Medicine. A tour of the University of Houston’s Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) department enabled a dialogue about innovative designs and new materials for habitations. Take a virtual tour of the exhibition created by Art Matters Now. https://ths.li/CFOyFU |
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