16/11/2024
Last night saw the opening of Cosmic Debris, the exhibition centerpiece of , at National Space Centre Elfordstown Midleton. Under an illuminated Big Dish, Greywood Arts artistic director Jessica Bonenfant welcomed an audience of 60 guests and facilitated a discussion panel with the project's joint artists in residence.
Impact is a levitating sculptural installation by .art Kerry Guinan representing a meteoroid impacted by a shard of artificial space debris in the high speeds of Earth’s orbit. The work asks us to reflect upon the profound impact that humanity has on nature, on and beyond the Earth.
Works on show include Luisa Charles’ Obsolescent Megaconstellation, made up of over 600 LED lights, animated with a feed of live data from the U.S. Space Command that tracks almost 40,000 pieces of space debris currently orbiting the earth and Cosmic Confessional, which invites audiences to get up close and personal with pieces of space waste from the National Space Centre that ‘whispers’ the dark secrets of the space industry. Nebula is a kinetic sculpture made from hanging space waste, morphing between forms.
Nicholas Carn’s System Shocks: Denial Loop is an audio-visual video intervention exploring the concept of a system meltdown, information distortions and noise interferences from the build up of space debris having a negative effect on the earth's magnetosphere, the protective region around our planet. Trojans of L5-4Gy is a video installation presenting a flash forward into deep time, hypothesising anomalous events at locations called Trojan points, where gravitational balance is relatively stable and object
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