COSS: Guided tour of Martian Picnic exhibition

Dr Sarah Fortais (Slade alumni 2018) will be delivering a guided tour of her exhibition inside the Royal Geographical Society, to coincide with the 2022 Explore Festival. Fortais was selected as the first Artist-In-Residence for the Centre for Outer Space Studies at UCL and subsequently travelled on the UK's first Analogue Space Research Mission in remote Scotland in May 2022.

The exhibition, titled Martian Picnic, aims to document the Lunga 6 training and mission whilst setting these activities speculatively into the history of space travel. Fortais primarily worked with soil, life-casting, and items collected at the site of the mission to produce artworks which highlight the mission's objective of testing scenarios of off-world/remote medical care. 

Numbers are limited so please only register if you definately plan to attend, and remember to cancel your ticket if you are no longer able to join the tour: https://coss-martianpicnic.eventbrite.co.uk

Image credit: Sarah Fortais, from the performance video titled ASSEMBLY REQUIRED, 2022, from exhibition Martian Picnic