cosmic dancer - a space art intervention by arthur woods

The Cosmic Dancer Project Videos

Cosmic Dancer Presented at the 2021 Space Renaissance International Congress (10.02)

Arthur Woods "Cosmic Dancer" video for the 2021 Space Renaissance Congress Art Gallery.
Session: 5.2 Space Renaissance Art (2) – Day 3 – June 28th, 2021.

More info: Space Renaissance 2021

Cosmic Dancer at Kunsthaus Zürich
April 5 - June 30, 2019 (6.12)

Fly me to the Moon. The Moon landing: 50 years on
Kunsthaus Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
www.kunsthaus.ch

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Cosmic Dancer at Fantasy Basel - May 10-12, 2018 (8.17)

I have been invited by the Swiss Space Museum to show the Cosmic Dancer and Cosmic Dancer 2.0 projects on their stand at Fantasy Basel from May 10-12, 2018.

More info: Swiss Space Museum

Cosmic Dancer 2.0 Coming Soon! (0.56)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Cosmic Dancer sculpture to the Mir Space Station on May 22, 1993, Cosmic Dancer 2.0 is being prepared for an art-in-space realization on or around the same date in 2018 on a space station near Earth. This art intervention is under development and more information about how one can participate in its realization will soon be available.

Cosmic Dancer 2.0 Trailer (0.56)

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Cosmic Dancer sculpture to the Mir Space Station on May 22, 1993, Cosmic Dancer 2.0 is being prepared for an art-in-space realization on or around the same date in 2018 on a space station near Earth. This art intervention is under development and more information about how one can participate in its realization will soon be available.

Cosmic Dancer on the Mir space station (6.34)

Short version of the Cosmic Dancer video. Background music "Pavane in F-Sharp" by Gabriel Fauré. Recording licensed from Unique Tracks Production Music Library Inc.

Original Video of the Cosmic Dancer on the Mir (28:05)

This video is the original 28 minute uncut version as filmed by the Russian cosmonauts Gennadi Manakov and Alexander Polischuk. Background music by Hans Peter Häuptli

Space Night 1994 (6:20)

Space Night is the name of a German television program in the early night/morning hours each day. It is a mixture of chill-out-music and images of the earth as seen from space interspersed with informative broadcasts. It was started by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) in 1994.

The Cosmic Dancer was one of the first space art videos to be shown in the program beginning in 1994 and was featured in the first year celebration in the Munich planetarium. The Cosmic Dancer video, edited to the musical score by Grabriel Faure's Pavane, was broadcast many times in subsequent years.

Cosmonaut Training Session (4:27)

Video of cosmonauts Alexander Polischuk and Gennadi Manakov with a wooden model of the Cosmic Dancer sculpture. The training session was in preparation for their upcoming mission to the Mir space station in May 1993. This video was made at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center normally called Star City, located near Moscow. (Russian

Live Downlink from the Mir space station (7:21)

Down-linked video of the Cosmic Dancer broadcast from the Mir space station to the ground control center while the art intervention was being filmed. Instructions from the ground control center in Moscow were sent to the cosmonauts during the filming. The original color video in Beta-S format was delivered to the artist several months later. (Russian)

Voices from L5 (51:23)

I was contacted by Liam Ginty, the host of the podcast “Voices from L5”, to discuss the Cosmic Dancer project. The far ranging conversation touched on my early astronautical art projects that led up to the realization of the Cosmic Dancer sculpture on the Mir space station and ended with a mention of the current Greater.Earth projects.