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COSS HYBRID 'Sarah Fortais: Artist in Residence on a Mars Analogue'
18 October 2022, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm
Dr Sarah Fortais is the first Artist-In-Residence for the Centre For Outer Space Studies and will be talking about some of the artwork she created as a crew member of the UK's first Analogue Space Research Mission.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Adryon Kozel
Location
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IAS Forum and online, via ZoomG17, Ground Floor, South WingUCL, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Dr Sarah Fortais is the first Artist-In-Residence for the Centre For Outer Space Studies and will be talking about some of the artwork she created as a crew member of the UK's first Analogue Space Research Mission. Fortais will also demonstrate one of the modified life-casting techniques she developed for the mission's extreme environment, and bring along some Analogue Space material samples to experiment with. The presentation and demonstration will be followed by a Q&A session about casting and mould-making in general, and if time allows, Fortais will also discuss the material experiments she has started as the Specialist Casting Technician at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
About the Speaker
Dr Sarah Fortais
Artist and researcher
Dr Fortais is a Canadian artist and researcher interested in bricolage: disassembling, repurposing, and modifying existing objects or ideas to generate new understanding. Fortais received a PhD in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art (2018), where she built spacesuits for animals, borrowed NASA moon rocks, produced the first graphic representation of every animal that has left Earth’s atmosphere, and created strategies to observe and define what it means to call a person or thing ‘cool’. She is the current Artist in Residence at COSS.
More about Dr Sarah Fortais