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The Arts Catalyst
Nicola Triscott expands upon The Arts Catalyst’s mission to extend, promote and activate a fundamental shift in the dialogue between art and science and its perception by the public.
Internationally recognised for our collaborative projects between artists and scientists, and for our international art-science conferences, the Arts Catalyst also has extensive education and critical debate programmes which focus on the role of contemporary art in examining and communicating the issues that modern science presents. Artists' commissions have included, a long-term project with zero gravity choreographer Kitsou Dubois (1998), Jan Fabre's film A Consilience, with the entomologists at the Natural History Museum in London (2000), new commissions from American nuclear sculptor James Acord, Carey Young and Mark Waller for Atomic (1998/99), Helen Chadwick's Unnatural Selection, and Donald Rodney's Flesh of my Flesh for the 'Body Visual' exhibition (1996), and Simon Robertshaw's The Nature of History (1995). Our international conferences have been 'Eye of the Storm' (1998) and 'Cosmic Chances' (1999), both at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Eight years ago, when the Arts Catalyst was founded, the idea of artists engaging in the debates and processes of contemporary science was an unusual one. In 2001, art-and-science is almost a buzzword. Arts Catalyst has had an...
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