HER WAYS AND MEANS – FEMALE PROTAGONISTS IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCE CONTEXTS
4. May, 7 pm
AGNES MEYER BRANDIS in conversation with HEIKE CATHERINA MERTENS Program director of Hatje Cantz Publishing location: Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin (TA T) Humboldt University Berlin Philippstraße 12/13 10115 Berlin 
SPACE SUIT TESTING, Astronaut Training Method No. XIII,
Videostill, Moon Goose Colony @ Agnes Meyer-Brandis, VG-Bild Kunst 
Talk at Tieranatomisches Theater, Agnes Meyer Brandis and Heike Catharina Mertens
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In cooperation with the
Helmholtz-Center for Cultural Techniques at the Humboldt University Berlin 
About the speakers:
The artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis, born 1973 in Aachen, Germany, studied mineralogy for a year, then transferred to the Art Academy in Maastricht, the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Cologne Media Art Academy. Coming from a background of both sculpture and new media art, she explores the zone between fact and fiction. She is the founder of the “Forschungsfloss FFUR / Research Raft “, an Institute for Art and subjective Science.
Based on an artistic experiment and performance in weightlessness conducted in cooperation with the German Space Agency DLR her work concluded in a series of realizations dedicated to gravity, flying, floating and falling, manifesting themselves in various installations and long term performances or experiments such as the “Moon Goose Colony” (since 2011, ongoing). For a more detailed description of her work, please go to her homepage: http://www.blubblubb.net/ 
© Foto Ulla Taipale
Heike Catherina Mertens is program director of Hatje Cantz Publishing. Prior she was Executive Director and artistic director oft he Schering Foundation in Berlin and curated numerous exhibition with internationally renowned, contemporary Artists. She is an advisor for public art projects and member of the curatorship of the KAIROS Price oft he Alfred Toepfer Foundation (F.V.S.) 
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