Terrestrial Art from Space Trash: Out of this World Irish Art Residency Opens for International Applications

Terrestrial Art from Space Trash: Out of this World Irish Art Residency Opens for International Applications

   EO Ireland Events Webinar & Training    July 27, 2021  |  0

26 July 2021 – The National Space Centre (NSC) in partnership with Greywood Arts has announced an open call for the Space Waste Residency, a unique month-long artist-in-residence programme. The sculptural project examines the debris produced by the acceleration of space technology and is supported by Cork County Council.

The residency is an exciting invitation for an artist to reimagine and re-purpose technological components that can’t be recycled. It’s an opportunity to explore the impact of human interactions with space and how we could move forward into the future,” explained Jessica Bonenfant, Artistic Director at Greywood Arts. “This collaboration will give an artist the chance to collect materials from the National Space Centre and observe the workings of a busy ground station before immersing themselves in the creative environment at Greywood.”

The NSC is set to share space communications components including circuit boards, assemblies and data subframes with the artist, as well as preserved panels from their recently dismantled 11-metre EU-5B4 satellite ground communications dish. The selected artist will then have a month in residence at Greywood Arts to develop the work that emerges.

“This is a pivotal time in space exploration,” explained NSC CEO Rory Fitzpatrick. “We’re looking at manned Martian exploration in the near future, while Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have launched space tourism as a viable industry. At the same time, there are more than 125 million pieces of space garbage orbiting our planet. It’s an ideal moment to examine questions around our responsibility to live sustainably not only on Earth, but beyond it.”

The international invitation to artists is open until 22 August and the residency will run in November. The project concludes with an exhibition and discussion at the National Space Centre in early December to showcase the work created during the residency, and to launch the NSC’s 10th Birthday celebrations.

Applications and more information: https://greywoodarts.org/space-waste/

Image 1: Jessica Bonenfant, Artistic Director at Greywood Arts, shows off some of the junk components from scrapped space communications projects at the National Space Centre in Middleton, Cork. 

Image 2: Staff at the National Space Centre in Cork dismantle the 11-meter EU-5B4 satellite ground communications dish. Panels have been preserved for the Greywood Arts residency partnership. 

 

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