hundredyearspacetrip

hundredyearspacetrip

Created by Kate Attwell and Nina Segal (of We Buy Gold) and the ensemble: Brenda Meaney and Ryan Davis.

September 22nd at 8pm September 23th and 24th at 8 and 11 pm. 
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"Dear__________, I don't know when this message will reach you. Max told me that when we send a message from where we're going (where we're going!), it will take five years to reach Earth. So I wrote it in the past."

hundredyearspacetrip documents two female astronauts on a mission to Alpha Centauri, the star system nearest and most similar to our own -- 39,900,000,000,000 km away.

Over the course of one hour, five performers explore the meaning of going to space, of pregnancy, of aging, of letters, and of communication, of vessels for hundred year journeys, of time, of distance, and of the ceaseless desire for something of us to remain behind once we are gone.

We Buy Gold presents an uncompromising piece of entertainment that investigates the connections between human ambition in art, in science and in family.

 

NOTES FOR SPACETRIP

 

 

 

-----------> Notes, no. 1.2, day___:

 

*This is about space travel, about traversing distance, about imaginary spaces and about imagining ageing. 

***And rat babies. Parts of this are about rat babies, too.

 

*This is a number we are learning to say out loud, learning to say in words: 39,900,000,000,000. It is how far we are going, in km. (!).

 

*Discovery, no. 1: When you squint at this:

http://www.advancedfertility.com/images/MONOZYG.JPG

 

* It looks a little bit like this:

http://myhome.spu.edu/ddowning/images/coal_sack_2008.jpg

 

* Discovery, no. 2: This is a feeling:

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=39,900,000,000,000&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=845&tbm=isch&tbnid=TQi4i-ZwhbqXSM:&imgrefurl=http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/to-boldly-go-back-to-where-we-went-before-20110711-1hakc.html&docid=mnWWfqUttlweeM&w=420&h=304&ei=ktRwTv29L8nW0QGpmrWnCg&zoom=1

 

* This is also a feeling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Oe-rY2B0I

 

* And so is this: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oLLaeQfNd8

 

 

Over and out. 

 

___________.

 

-----------> Notes, no. 7.4, day___:

 

*Today:

 

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* And also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpvRABFfaYw