ZERO
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A Film made with Mike Stubbs
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9 mins 2001
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned trip to space, in an age when space tourism has become a reality what does the future hold for our new born ? A first shaft of light, a splinter of an image, first movements and a sense of independence. Zero is a lyrical view playing on the metaphor of weightlessness, mobility, existentialism and conciousness. At what point are we aware of our own bodies, what is private and where does the external world begin ?
Recorded by Mike Stubbs who was part of a team of artists and scientists invited onto a series of parabolic flights on a Russian Military Evolution Aircraft, based at the Yuri Gagarin Training Centre, Star City, Moscow, in 2000. The text comprises of writings by Net Robot , Netochka Nezvanova (further info: http://exindex.c3.hu/media/index_en.php3?mediafile=m9ndfuck_en.html) and poet Kevin Henderson.
Read by Yuri Gagarin and Kevin Henderson Construction: Gina Czarnecki Sound Design: Gerald Maire
Commissioned by PVA MediaLab and Watershed Media Centre, With support of The Arts Catalyst and TVI, Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art.
To be projected in near total blackout with excellent sound. 9 mins 2001
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned trip to space, in an age when space tourism has become a reality what does the future hold for our new born ? A first shaft of light, a splinter of an image, first movements and a sense of independence. Zero is a lyrical view playing on the metaphor of weightlessness, mobility, existentialism and conciousness. At what point are we aware of our own bodies, what is private and where does the external world begin ?
Recorded by Mike Stubbs who was part of a team of artists and scientists invited onto a series of parabolic flights on a Russian Military Evolution Aircraft, based at the Yuri Gagarin Training Centre, Star City, Moscow, in 2000. The text comprises of writings by Net Robot , Netochka Nezvanova (further info: http://exindex.c3.hu/media/index_en.php3?mediafile=m9ndfuck_en.html) and poet Kevin Henderson.
Read by Yuri Gagarin and Kevin Henderson Construction: Gina Czarnecki Sound Design: Gerald Maire
Commissioned by PVA MediaLab and Watershed Media Centre, With support of The Arts Catalyst and TVI, Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art.
To be projected in near total blackout with excellent sound.
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