You’ve definitely seen Gaia by now, but did you know that it comes with a soundtrack by a BAFTA award-winning composer?
We’d like to invite you to Marshgate’s project space to take a quiet moment to enjoy Gaia and its soundtrack; to contemplate our place on the planet and how we can protect it. You will also have the opportunity to hear from cosmic performance and installation artist Sarah Fortais.
Free drinks and snacks available!
About Gaia
1.8 million times than the real Earth, Gaia is a permanently installed artwork which embodies UCL as London’s Global University and is located in the atrium at UCL East Marshgate. Artist Luke Jerram designed Gaia for people to ‘see the Earth as if from space; an incredibly beautiful and precious place. An ecosystem we urgently need to look after – our only home’.
Find out more about the Gaia Public Programme at UCL East on our webpage.
About Sarah Fortais
Sarah Fortais received her PhD from Slade School of Fine Art where she built spacesuits for animals, borrowed NASA moon rocks, and created strategies to define what it means to call a person or thing ‘cool’. Her methodology, bricolage, brings materials together to help us think about space and the world we live in.
Sarah will be creating an exhibition at UCL East for World Space Week 2025 as part of the Gaia Public Programme.
You can find out more about Sarah on her website.
We can't wait to see you there!
Please note: doors open at 16:45, and the music will start promptly at 17:00