Rounding off our COSMOS: Reverse Perspective season, we're joined by Tim Ingold, Vadim Ryabikov, Yehuda Safran and more.
A life-size model of the Venera-1 probe that passed Venus during the night of 18th-19th May, 1961.
As the final event in our COSMOS: Reverse Perpective exhibition season, and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first man-made object to pass Venus (the Soviet Venera-1 probe), we're joined by an anthropologist - Tim Ingold, a historian - Yehuda Safran, and a psychologist - Vadim Ryabikov; as well as the artists and curators of the exhibition. They'll be discussing the philosophy and experience of space, and we'll be hearing from students in Russia who answer the question "Would you like to go into space?"
You can still see all the artworks on the Pushkin House website now.
Tim Ingold is a British anthropologist, chair of social anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His academic interests include environmental perception, language, technology and skilled practice, art and architecture, creativity, theories of evolution in anthropology, human-animal relations, and ecological approaches in anthropology.
Yehuda Safran is an adjunct professor of the history and theory of architecture at Pratt Institute in New York. He was born in 1944 in Haifa, studied in London in the 1970s: art and architectural history at the Royal College of Art and philosophy at London University. He has taught and lectured in the UK, USA and Israel, and has written extensively on art and architecture.
Vadim Ryabikov works as an artist, psychologist, composer and musician. His area of scientific interests is the symbolic potential of natural landscapes. He is a member of the Ikuashendun movement, uniting the indigenous peoples of America for the conservation of sacred sites of natural origin, and is co-author of Arctic Geo-cultures: Analysis of Methodology and Applied Research.