Te zien i.h.k.v. de film-en-debatreeks Fiction meets Science in Space, waarin we aan de hand van vier sciencefiction films in gesprek gaan met wetenschappers en kunstenaars over waar fictie en wetenschap elkaar ontmoeten. Met inleiding en nagesprek in het Engels.

See below for English!

Het Overzichtseffect: De kunst van planeet Aarde.

Waarom zouden we kunst in de ruimte willen brengen? Waarom is het belangrijk om kunstenaars te betrekken bij het nadenken over ruimte? Deze avond benaderen we de ruimte vanuit een interdisciplinaire invalshoek met Anna Sitnikova, curator en manager van de Moon Gallery Foundation en Virgile Novarina, regisseur van de film Inner Telescope, a Space Artwork van Eduardo Kac. De film documenteert de conceptie en realisatie van de allereerste artistieke performance in de ruimte, gemaakt door de kunstenaar Eduardo Kac. Het werk legt de basis voor een nieuwe vorm van kunst en poëzie, bevrijd van de beperkingen van de zwaartekracht.

Tijdens deze avond leren we meer over het belang om de ruimte vanuit allerlei invalshoeken te bekijken: design, kunst, wetenschap. Waarom is het belangrijk om kunstprojecten in de ruimte te organiseren? Hoe kan een interdisciplinaire benadering van de ruimte ons helpen om te begrijpen wie we zijn als mens? Inleiding en nagesprek (in het Engels) door Virgile Novarina & Anna Sitnikova.

[ENGLISH] The Overview effect: The Art of Planet Earth.

Why would we want to bring art into space? Why is it important to involve artists in thinking about space? This evening we approach space from an interdisciplinary angle with Anna Sitnikova curator and manager of the Moon Gallery Foundation and Virgile Novarina, director of the film Inner Telescope, a Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac. The film documents the conception and the realization of the very first artistic performance in Space. Created by the artist Eduardo Kac to exist in weightlessness and to be made on board the International Space Station by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the work “Inner Telescope” lays the foundation for a new form of art and poetry, freed from the constraints of gravity.

During this evening we will learn more about the importance of examining space from all kinds of angles: design, art, science. Why is it important to organize art projects in space? How can an interdisciplinary approach to space us help in understanding who we are as human beings?

INTRODUCTION & AFTERTALK (ENGLISH SPOKEN)

Following his studies in Mathematics and Physics, Virgile Novarina (born 1976) devoted his work to the artistic exploration of his own sleep, in the form of writing and drawings, and to the sleep of others in the form of photos and videos. Novarina has published eight books of Night Writings and Drawings and has exhibited his work in France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Poland and the United States. Since 2006, the simple act of sleeping has become an integral part of his work, in performances entitled “En somme”, during which he sleeps in public in the display windows of stores, galleries and museums. Previously, he had made “Around sleep” (12’, 2004), a short film unfolding on the course of one day and whose only characters are sleepers and yawners. In 2016, he directed “Deep into Sleep” (39’, a.p.r.e.s Production), a literary and philosophical descent into various sleep states, with Michel Butor, Clément Rosset, Pierre Pachet, and Jean-Luc Nancy. His last film, “Inner Telescope, a Space Artwork by Eduardo Kac” (35’, Observatoire de l’Espace, 2017), takes us on a journey from Earth towards the International Space Station for the creation of the first spatial poem conceived by Kac that explores weightlessness (“micro or zero gravity”) as a writing medium.

Anna Sitnikova is a designer, speaker & curator based in Amsterdam. She is project leader at Studio Samira Boon, Amsterdam. She has her own design & research studio Anna Sitnikova in Amsterdam. She is curator, manager and the Vice Chair of the Moon Gallery Foundation in Wassenaar (NL), and elected expert at Technical Committee on Cultural Utilisation of Space (ITACCUS) of the IAF, as well as elected expert of the Space Habitats Committee of the IAF.