Tuesday 24 October 2006 - Wednesday 25 October 2006
Tuesday 10 April - Friday 13 April 2007

Third Angel
9 Billion Miles From Home

Get in at the Start! 24 - 25 October 2006 8pm
In Double Bills with Action Hero. Tickets: £12.00 (£8.00 concessions)

The Finished Article. 10 - 13 April 2007 8pm
Finished Solo Showings. Tickets £12.00 (£8.00 concessions)

As you read these words, the space probe Voyager 1 is moving through the solar system at a speed of over 38 thousand miles per hour. It is more than 9 billion miles from Earth. Both Voyager 1 and her sister craft Voyager 2 carry a message. A message from you, and the rest of the human race, to the Universe. A message to whoever, or whatever, finds it.  

In 9 Billion Miles From Home Third Angel explore journeys, both epic and not so epic. They wonder about the furthest travelled human-made objects from Earth, and try to make sense of the unimaginable numbers and distances involved.

9 Billion Miles From Home further develops Third Angel's interest in the human race's interaction with the world around us, the concepts of scale, distance and time, and artistic exploration of science and technology.

Notes on 9 Billion Miles From Home , July 2006

1.   It's not just the distances involved - although that is part of what bothers us (but we're equally interested in the comparison of, say, a space craft passing the rings of jupiter, and a coach journey from Doncaster to London).

2.   No, it's the message as well - the words, images and sounds chosen, back in the 1970s, to represent the planet Earth to the universe.   And the technology involved - images encoded in binary on an analogue gramophone record.  

3.   Someone once said that nothing dates as quickly as our visions of the future.   And somehow that seems relevant to the idea that the Voyager craft carry a message from our past.

4.   We've made several pieces recently ( Hurrysickness , Class of '76 , The Lad Lit Project ) where the performance has been a direct reporting back on the research and process of making the work.   Although there will be a fair amount of research involved, we think 9 Billion Miles From Home will be less direct than these pieces.

5.   What else do we know?   Building something.   Remembering things.   Imagining things.   Trying to understand diagrams and draw them from memory.   Walkie-talkies, chalk, a peppercorn.   A performance for a man and a woman; for a male and female human being.  

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