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 […]
On December 4th 2009 I recorded an interview with Ewen Chardronnet. I’d heard that he’d been to space places in Russia.
I want to interview people, artists who I think have pioneered, have gone into space agencies as sort of the first artists. I want to find out what their impressions are because I have […]
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 […]
Am looking back through books. One page is about the symposium at NIAS ages ago. I had been trying to find the presentation that Shiv Visvanathan gave and I think I’ve found it. It was wonderful, about the imagination of science and the imagination of democracy. Here in England, its truly difficult to get anyone […]
It seems a long time after the event to be writing back my thoughts!
I wanted to make sure at some point I had fed back to you and people who took part, where the ideas came from and why I wanted to collaborate on the storytelling event we did together. Also to find out from […]
[Shiv Vishwanathan-yesterday at NIAS]
Can we think through a new imagination? What is the imagination of India, what is the imagination of science. What does science stand for in the face of nomadic and marginalised imaginations? Is imagination about conjuring an aura and where do these exist, where are they allowed to exist? What are knowledge […]
- You’re in charge of the grounds,
Roy Edgington: thats right,
- which is just amazing its just gorgeous.
- How have you come to be here?
R: Well I’m a career changer, I’m a late career changer, I worked in the city got made redundant, went to a specialist horticulture college and there […]
Here is the first podcast from The satellite Investigations World Tour: Goonhilly One.
1. Open iTunes.
2. Go to Podcasts in the left hand menu.
3. Go to Advanced in the top menu and open ‘Subscibe to Podcast…’
4. Paste this url into the box http://www.aconnectiontoaremoteplace.net/world_tour/podcast_wt.xml
Many thanks to Des Prouse and Simon Gittins for this unique guided tour.
(image courtesy UCL, MSSL)
Voyages of spacecraft through the rooms, minds, garden, lanes, conversations, meetings, oceans, atmospheres, magnetospheres, the pulls and the pushes, the stages of certainty and uncertainty.
This is one plan, the first draft. It could work with a skeleton structure, that’s open enough for adaptation and improvisation, but explores themes, pathways and distances. A […]
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 […]
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