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We can't stop thinking about the future : artist Aleksandra Mir speaks with the space world.

Title
We can't stop thinking about the future : artist Aleksandra Mir speaks with the space world.
Publication
  • [London, UK] : Strange Attractor Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Tate Gallery Liverpool, host institution.
  • Modern Art Oxford, host institution.
Description
157 pages : illustrations; 30 cm
Summary
This book provides a companion to Aleksandra Mir's latest body of work 'Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions', exhibited at Tate Liverpool and Modern Art Oxford. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry and the anonymous artists who depicted Halley's Comet in 1066, the 'Space Tapestry' is a large-scale, hand-drawn monochrome wall-hanging that forms an immersive environment. Much like a graphic novel, 'Space Tapestry' tells an episodic visual story of space travel. Over the past three years, Mir has maintained dialogues with professionals in the space industry and academia who have informed and inspired her. The work draws on themes relating to current debates, recorded events, scientific discoveries, technological innovations and predictions of imagined futures that currently affect all our lives.This book contains both reproductions of the finished work and images from its collaborative creation with twenty-five young artists. It also contains sixteen in-depth new interviews with a wide range of professionals working in the space industries today, providing an intimate and informative insight into the present and future of space exploration --
Subject
  • Mir, Aleksandra > Exhibitions
  • Mir, Aleksandra
  • Research
  • Art and Design
  • Outer space > Research > Interviews
  • Outer space > In art > Exhibitions
  • Outer space
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Space Tapestry: Faraway Missions" held at Tate Liverpool, June 23-October 15, 2017 and "Space Tapestry: Earth Observation & Human Spaceflight" held at Modern Art Oxford, June 24-November 12, 2017.
ISBN
  • 9781907222542
  • 1907222545
LCCN
2017416265
OCLC
  • ocn978554640
  • SCSB-8879260
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library