Last night, we twittered at the Radio Lab Listening Party and human(n) kaleidoscope (by Carmin Karasic and Rolf van Gelder) and Edward Burtynsky photography exhibit at the Museum of Science.
The Listening Party was magical because we listened to the Radio Lab Program on Space in the MoS Planetarium with specific images related to the show. The first section about Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan's creation of a gold album of important and beautiful earth sounds. The story of the album that traveled into space on the Voyager probe was romantic, touching and sublime. Their love story and the hope that someone/thing might here the sounds hundreds of thousands years from was inspiring.
On the program, Dario Robleto spoke about his piece, I Won't Let You Say Goodbye This Time.
Here is a description from a show at Bard College.
I Won’t Let You Say Goodbye This Time is a suite of seven digital photographs in which Dario Robleto documents his attempt to regrow tomato seeds that were said to be aboard the LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) probe that went up to space in 1984 with the Challenger shuttle. Through complex layering and narrative, the seeds become a metaphorical vehicle for dealing with death and the tragedy of the Challenger’s explosion. Robleto’s sentimental but sincere gesture of planting one seed for each of the seven Challenger crewmembers that died in the explosion is not an act of memorialization, however. The presentation of the gesture through the form of the photograph eternally captures the plants in their moment of bloom and seduces us into believing in an alternate, imaginary ending in which the crewmembers lived to cultivate the seeds. I Won’t Let You Say Goodbye This Time thus becomes a heroic attempt to restore life where death has occurred. It suggests that art has the potential to change history, and the power to alter our relationships to the past even if it fails.
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