The Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT)
KSEVT (SI)
The Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) engages mainly in research and development of a programme dedicated to space culturalization.
KSEVT is enabling and facilitating a neutral context for the transfer of knowledge through its Composite Missions, in the form of conferences, workshops and residencies where artists and scientists engage on diverse topic research about human activity within space. The main purpose of their engagement is the development of cultural applications for space programmes. These cultural applications literally build on a holistic approach where theoretical and practical levels develop composite thinking processes (Arts and Science). Furthermore this transfer of knowledge is then presented to institutions and organizations who are dealing with space research on a continuous basis, also including scientific research as well as artistic and cultural production.
KSEVT is an institute with the purpose to initiate and facilitate space culturalization research and development activities by means of intellectual and artistic investigation through cross-discipline activities. Its secondary activity is that of a museum, which acknowledges space research and its implications on cultural production and creates an immersive environment for contemporary and historical intercultural scientific investigation. Through disseminating knowledge dedicated to space culturalization to the larger public through publishing and educational activities as well as to engage in the production of exhibitions and events there establishes a regular contact with various audiences. The third main activity is that of a laboratory dedicated to practical informal educational activities, often connected to exhibitions, where younger generations can reproduce smaller technological objects and learn about space research.
The idea of KSEVT first emerged as a tribute to one man and the opening exhibition is dedicated to him – the family of Potočnik, the spaceflight pioneer, originates from Vitanje. There you can also find his memorial room, yet the exhibition about 100 monumental influences, however, embodies his global outreach.
»Exhibition on Potočnik mainly presents an idea of humanization in technological development. It is a sum of influences on Potočnik’s biography and of influences his work has had in the decades of development in space technologies which enabled the first satellite and the first man to be sent into space; which enabled the flight to the Moon and enabled the construction of the first space stations in Earth’s orbit.« Miha Turšič, author of the exhibition
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Informance Dragan Živadinov (SI)Artist / Atractor, (SI)
Dragan Živadinov studied theatrical direction at the Academy of Music, Radio, Television and Film in Ljubljana from 1980 to 1984. He was a cofounder of the art movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (1985). In the 1980s he constructed the style formation retro-gardism. In 1983 he founded the retro-garde Scipion Nasice Sisters Theatre and, in 1987, the cosmokinetic observatory Red Pilot. In the early 1990s he transformed Red Pilot into the Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet. In 1995 he embarked on the fifty-year theatrical process Noordung 1995–2045 through the style formation of telecosmism.
In 1998 he became a candidate cosmonaut and, in 1999, realised Biomechanics Noordung, the first complete theatre production in zero gravity conditions.
In 2005 he staged the first reprise of Noordung 1995–2005–2045. The second reprise willtake place in 2015.
In the 1980s he constructed retro-gardist events and observatories. In the 1990s he constructed informances. Since 2000 he has been constructing post-gravitational theatrical abstracts.
Živadinov is founder member of Slovenian artist group Neue Slovenische Kunst (NSK), which is now considered as one of the milestones of European artistic experimentation in the last 20 years. NSK began operating in 1984 as a large collective, a union of various groups brought together by their shared way of thinking and similar style of expression through different media: popular music, visual arts, graphic design, theater, philosophy. Dragan Zivadinov is the founder of the Noordung Cosmokinetic Cabinet (named after the Slovene space scientist Herman Potocnik Noordung), which evolved from the Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater and the Red Pilot Cosmokinetic Theater. In 1995, it presented the capital project "One Versus One", with restagings taking place every 10 years. The next one is due to be held in Moscow just a few days after The Influencers. The show will play until 20 April 2045. The place of those actors who die in the meantime will be taken by a mechanical symbol, their spoken text represented by sounds (melody for women, rhythm for men). In 2045 these symbols will be shot into zero gravity space in a capsule. This action is intended to finally abolish mimetic theatre and establish the rule of non-corporeal art.
The life of Potočnik and his contemporaries
Herman Potočnik was born on 22 December 1892 in Pula. He had spent his childhood in Maribor, attended school in Fischau, Hranice and Mödling and fought at the battlefields of World War I. After the war,
he had been retired as a war invalid but despite that fact he decided to continue his studies in Vienna and eventually became a rocket technologies engineer. From 1922 to his death, he devoted himself to space science. He died on 27 August 1929 in Vienna.
Early rocket technologies
Through the course of the exhibition you will comprehend the integral development of rocket technologies and their pioneers: starting with
first plans and calculations, first
flights from the Earth’s atmosphere and all the way to the installation of the first artificial satellite – Sputnik 1 – in Earth’s orbit.
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