Join the curators of Otherwordly at Peltz Gallery, Joshua Goodland and Matt Kimberley, for a tour of the exhibition.

Thursday 07 November 2024 17:00 to 18:00

Thursday 14 November 2024 17:00 to 18:00

Thursday 21 November 2024 17:00 to 18:00

Otherwordly is a group exhibition of London-based emerging artists who have worked in dialogue with the latest research in astrobiology. The study of the origins, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe, astrobiology is one of contemporary science's most rapidly developing areas of research. It explores questions such as: What is life? How does life arise from non-life? What are the essentials and contingencies of habitability and evolution? Are we alone?

Artists Hildy Biernoff and Lo Cleary imagine through painting and drawing the forms that life could take on three speculative worlds—an icy moon named Boreas; a super-Earth, Jӧtunn; and a gas giant, Vayu-Vatu. Biernoff's and Cleary's work is informed by exchanges with the exhibition curators, Birkbeck students Joshua Goodland and Matt Kimberley, who shared with the artists the latest scientific knowledge about what life could look like in extraterrestrial environments.

Multimedia artists Arlo Bailey-Evans and Crow Higgott have developed a sound piece that provides an atmosphere for these as yet unknown, but highly evocative and increasingly familiar landscapes. The works, moreover, remind us of the importance of art-science collaborations in making outer space visible and felt.

Supported by the Royal Astronomical Society, and Birkbeck, University of London.

With special thanks for the advice of Professor Roger Luckhurst and Dr. Andrew Rushby.