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Launch

Launch Date:

8 April 2022

Launch Mission:

Axiom Mission 1

Launch Operator:

SpaceX

Rocket:

Falcon 9

Launch Vehicle:

Crew Dragon Endeavour

Launch Location:

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

2022-037A

COSPAR id:

In Space

Host:

International Space Station

Type:

Space Station

Operator:

Multinational

Location:

Low Earth Orbit, Non-Polar Inclined

COSPAR id:

1998-067A

Return

Return Date:

Return Mission:

Return Vehicle:

Landing Location:

COSPAR id:

Updated:

8/7/24

status:

Ended

Mission Profile

Partners:

Yael Frank

Multidisciplinary Artist

Artist(s)

Collection

This artwork is part of a collection:

Rakia Art Project

2022

A cultural experience in a functional environment.

Gravity Drama! Yael Frank’s new work suggests the creation of an artistic experience for the astronauts, tailored to their circumstances. This is a digital-theatrical work, which animates the objects in the Space Station through “planting” absurd scenes within the given space. The virtual appearance of pointless objects and situations, devoid of any logic, within the hyper mechanized, monitored and computerized environment, in which every moment, every inch is used for research and for humanity’s advancement, seeks to face off the micro-culture and the micro-science in a broader sense, in order to pose the question - is it possible to create a “greedy” cultural experience in the austere, functionality and extreme environment of scientific human presence in space? Through scanning codes, which will be spread throughout the Station, an app will be activated, enabling us to experience the various scenes and objects through an iPad screen simulating live video photography of the zone toward which the camera is directed. This way the entire Space Station actually becomes a virtual work of art.
Dimensions:

n/a

Medium:

Digital, iPad

Genre:

Gravity Drama!

Yael Frank

Israel

2022

Gravity Drama!

2022

Ended
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