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Creative Disturbance is proud to host it’s very own Yuri’s Night celebration! Yuri’s Night is an international event that celebrates the first human to go into space, Yuri Gagarin, and recollects the milestones humankind has achieved in space exploration.

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Enjoy podcast’s that discuss space exploration, art, and recollections of the history of humankind’s relatively short time in space.

The New Afronaut

In Christina de Middel’s website, one can read the following: “In 1964 a Zambian science teacher named Edwuard Makuka decided to train the first African crew to travel to the moon. His plan was to use an alluminium rocket to put a woman, two cats and a missionary into Space”. Unfortunately the project never came to fruition but the expression, coined by the science teacher, has been adopted in the context of space culture. This podcast is an interview of Mandla Maseko, the first black African to travel into space more than fifty years after Edwuard Makuka’s initiative.

A 9 Year Old Dreams of Space

Nine year old Jack T. Robertson shares his dreams of traveling into space… to the outer planets and beyond. in a video produced by Michael Ricciardi. For this Yuri’s Night podcast, Michael Ricciardi recollect memories of his experiences with space, art, and how it has impacted his life in discussion with Roger Malina. See the video on the podcast page!

Starbeasts: A Bio-Fiction Tour [ENG]

Bio-Fiction is an art-science and film festival that explores the social, cultural and environmental ramifications of synthetic biology. Markus Schmidt, its founder, and Georg Tremmel, a Tokyo-based artist from Austria, are moving it for the first time in Japan. This edition follows a previous workshop (organized and produced by the Bioartsociety) that focused on the topic of exo/xenobiology.

La Gravedad de los Asuntos (2/2) [ES]

En este podcast Ale y Nahum nos platican del viaje emocionante que realizaron junto con otros artistas mexicanos que tomo dos años de preparación y concentración para realizar obras de arte en gravedad cero. Su preparación y coordinación los llevo a abordar un avión en Rusia que le permite sentir a sus pasajeros la gravedad cero por cuestiones de segundos. Con solo menos de un minuto y medio en total en gravedad cero ellos lograron romper paradigmas y cuestionar nuestro conocimiento acerca de la gravedad e interpretar esto en las obras de arte que realizaron y que actualmente se encuentran en exhibición alrededor del mundo.

 

La Gravedad de los Asuntos (1/2) [ES]

En este podcast Ale y Nahum nos platican del viaje emocionante que realizaron junto con otros artistas mexicanos que tomo dos años de preparación y concentración para realizar obras de arte en gravedad cero. Su preparación y coordinación los llevo a abordar un avión en Rusia que le permite sentir a sus pasajeros la gravedad cero por cuestiones de segundos. Con solo menos de un minuto y medio en total en gravedad cero ellos lograron romper paradigmas y cuestionar nuestro conocimiento acerca de la gravedad e interpretar esto en las obras de arte que realizaron y que actualmente se encuentran en exhibición alrededor del mundo.

 

The Johannesburg Rocket Factory

Artist-Activist Marcus Neustetter and Astronomer-Editor Roger Malina discuss the Rocket Factory project in Johannesburg; the ancient factory is being converted into residential units. Neustetter convinced the developer to creatively transform the project to create a unique residential space that is also connected to the imaginary of the place and its nearby residents.

 

Ere spatiale par Roger Malina

In the Audiolats series “Et ça veut dire ? / Meaning?” and for the Space Art & Culture dedicated channel, Roger Malina gives his definition of “space age or space era” (ére spatiale).

Enregistré par Annick Bureaud & Jean-Luc Soret, le 11 septembre 2014 à Paris, jingles et habillage sonore Jean-Yves Leloup, musiques Sergey Lopoukha “Lull” (Universal Production Music Publishing)

 

Art spatial par Roger Malina

In the Audiolats series “Et ça veut dire ? / Meaning?” and for the Space Art & Culture dedicated channel, Roger Malina gives his definition of “space art” (art spatial).

Enregistré par Annick Bureaud & Jean-Luc Soret, le 11 septembre 2014 à Paris, jingles et habillage sonore Jean-Yves Leloup, musiques Sergey Lopoukha “Lull” (Universal Production Music Publishing) – Référence complémentaire / Further reading [http://www.diatrope.com/rfm/docs/Malina_Space_1991.pdf]