The arts catalyst

The Arts Catalyst: from London
has done a number of commissions. Worked with Steve Kurtz CAE. Worked with sourcing materials ethically through legitimate channels. worked to recreate sea trials off coast of isle of lewis. Made the work "Marching Plague."
Showed video of Steve Kurtz spraying ICA with some pre-emptive research.
And a series of interesting works.
Ben Blakebrow (?) flying machine.
Simon Faithful "escape vehicle no 6." a full scale chair suspended beneath a weather balloon.. with a camera lens that frames chair dangling in mid shot. launched into space the chair takes off into the void. the camera watched this as the chair transmitted back to earth. when reaches the edge of space the baloon pops adn the chair falls back to earth with a red parachute. "to imagine occupying the chair is imagining life beyond the earth." (images to follow)
London field works - space baby.
The human being is one of the mammals that does not hibernate yet needs hibernation in terms of long term space travel. looks at the university of Leichster research into "sleep gene" (that doesn't exist- but might). And working on hibernation pods with undergrads at artschool in india.. (missed name).
Made pods that they slept in in the gallery and scientists came and took samples of blood analysing gene shifts.
"We like to feel that living on the frontiers of investigation we are creating new forms of active and creative curatorship probing into science and society."