Talk
Art, Space and the Future
18 Oct 2017
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
12
Address
- Bankside
- London
- SE1 9TG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 45, 63, 100, 344, 381, RV1
- Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
- Train: London Bridge
Explore the boundaries between art, science, politics, the Space Race and the future
About
In the 1980s, Russia became infatuated with a space-centred utopian concept called Cosmism. Cosmism saw the vision and the political project of the communist revolution intertwine.
Deeply influencing the Kabakov’s work The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment, Cosmism presented space as a realm of total freedom: a place where a person could escape from the hopelessness of the late-Soviet society.
With artist Aleksandra Mir, philosopher, activist and curator Maria Chehonadskih, and Dimitri Ozerkov, Director of “The Hermitage 20/21” Project for Contemporary Art at The State Hermitage Museum Moscow.