September 26-29, 2024, Meudon, France
STAR’s UP 2024 Festival: Space, Science, Astronomy, Aeronautics
26-29 September, 2024
Meudon, France
We are pleased to announce that Anna Frants’ Unidentified Objects No. 2 (2021) is participating in the STAR’s UP 2024 Festival. The project also involves artist and CYLAND community member Alexandra Dementieva.
What is an unidentified object? Is it a homeless person without an ID? Could it be anything of an unusual shape? In fact, it could be anything about which we do not have enough information.
According to Marcel Duchamp, artists do not necessarily have to create a work of art: they might choose an unidentified/unknown/found/readymade object and put it into a museum or gallery context, thus turning it into an object d’art.
One character in an old Soviet film claims that he could attach “this thingy” to a readymade object, “and it’s gonna fly,” thus transforming it into an Unidentified Flying Object, which does not have to have the shape of a saucer. Anna Frants, a new-media artist, attaches electronic devices and thingies to her readymade or reclaimed objects. This probably would not make them fly, but it might make them ready to perceive the cosmos and explore chaos.