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G39 will host The Golden Record curated by Mel Brimfield. It presents over 130 artists, including Paul Becker, Helen Sear, Bedwyr Williams, S Mark Gubb, Miranda Whall, as well as painterly reworkings of nostalgic photography by Richard Moon, Simon Le Ruez's sculpture of forbidden charms, and work from acerbic fictitious duo Bob and Roberta Smith.
The project is an ironic and contemporary remake of The Golden Record, a phonograph record contained in the two Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977. The original Golden Record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing selected pieces of music, sound and imagery chosen to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or far future humans, that may chance upon it.
116 âImages of Earth' were compiled for The Golden Record by Carl Sagan and his team of NASA scientists in 1977. In 2008 Brimfield invited 116 artists to produce an artwork that corresponds with a title assigned from the list, which features such oddities as Forest Scene with Mushrooms, House Interior with Artist and Fire, and Old Man with Beard and Glasses the original selection of images can be viewed in full at http://goldenrecord.org/. The resulting works all follow the standard size of 31.5 x 31.5cm the measurements of a vinyl record sleeve.
A series of short video works have also been produced to replace the 55 original audio greetings in different languages. These feature high-profile UK comedians including Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon, John Hegley, Wil Hodgson and Robin Ince who explore such earthly concepts as Being Welsh, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, bingo and eggcups.
Artists include: Pamela Brabants, Mel Brimfield, Gordon Robin Brown, Gordon Cheung, Ruth Claxton, Layla Curtis, Adam Dant, Holly Davey, Brian Dewan, Jack Duplock, Lloyd Durling Geraint Evans, Leo Fitzmaurice, Rachel Goodyear, Matthew Houlding, Hideko Inoue, Tim Machin, Andrew Mania, Alex Gene Morrison, Sally O'Reilly, Rachel Pantechnicon, Paul Rooney, Bob and Roberta Smith, Jessica Voorsanger, and Simon Woolham.
