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Rob La Frenais
Rob La Frenais is Curator of The Arts Catalyst, the UK's art-science agency
founded in 1992. He has curated major installations, performance, technology and art/science commissions both in museums and public places since 1987, and has worked with many major international artists ranging through James Turrell, Marina Abramovic, Stelarc, Orlan, HR Giger, Linda Montano, Helen Chadwick, Mona Hatoum, Cornelia Parker, and the Residents as well as initiating over a hundred projects with emerging artists. He has directed major arts festivals in England, Scotland, Switzerland and Spain. Between 1979 -1988 he was the editor of Performance Magaine, an international cultural journal publishing over 70 issues. Between 1970 and 1979 he worked with video in both an art and a community setting. With the Arts Catalyst he has curated 'Atomic', a controversial show about art and nuclear materials, 'Gravity Zero', an ongoing collaboration between French space dancer Kitsou Dubois, the European Space Agency and Imperial College, London and the upcoming 'Searching' about art and SETI. He recently experienced weightlessness in a zero-gravity parabolic flight at the Yuri Gararin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City Moscow - possibly the first curator ever to float around in space! He is currently combining curating with doctoral research on performance and the scientific study of consciousness.
url:
http://www.artscat.demon.co.uk
email: 75337.206@compuserve.com
mail: The Arts Catalyst, Toynbee Studios,
28 Commercial St.
London E1 6LS, England
Tel: 44 171 375 3690
fax: 44 171 377 0298
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