This is my second interview with an artist who has walked into a space institute, asserting their right to an alternative perspective.
This is the moon over Edgware Road.
These artists are pioneers. When you go into a space institute the doors of possibilities open up. Its a magical world where consciousness, life itself can be […]
At the Solar Eclipse the skies belong to the people again and that’s why I had to go there, to see how I could make my own connection with the Solar System and how other people did too.
Hinduism contains an ancient science of eclipses that now manifest in rituals: not eating during an eclipse, not […]
This is about visiting the Indian Deep Space Network this week. The huge white dishes follow the moon every day, East to West. While we were there, a movie was streaming down, live, of the surface of the moon. It took me a while to realise that it was live. I didn’t know what to […]
Tonight the terracotta tiles on the house outside my balcony look like they have a frost. It’s the moonlight. The moon is full and impossibly bright tonight. Today I read about its craters full of glass and the sparklies in the sand and the rays of glass beads.
I’d never heard before that the moon […]
The students at Srishti talk about the moon they saw a couple of weeks ago when they were on separate field trips in different parts of India. Guitar by Yashas.
We arrived in Tilda in a hysterical panic. The local train was jam packed and we had thirteen people plus luggage to get off in thirty seconds. The plan was to throw the luggage out of the window onto the track. The friendly man who said abstract things was helping us pile up the seats […]
The man who tap danced to the beat of his heart. He tried to catch the rhythm and then, as it was caught, to break it. He called it Moon Calendar. He was thinking of it as a way of changing the centre point, from the beat of the heart to the footsteps, to the […]
About a month ago I talked to Sundar Sarukkai at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, to ask his perspective on India’s satellite programme, the “impact of satellites on India is tremendous”. He told me about the first phase of satellite technology, Edusat was an experiment in sending lessons to tv sets in schools, via […]
These are the highest and lowest points of an orbit around the moon. They say perigee and apogee for the earth.
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