For 5-11 year olds for The Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival
The Institute of Unnecessary Research will be running a very unusual one-day workshop at The Sallis Benney Theatre (University of Brighton, Grand Parade) on Saturday 14th April from 10am for 5-11 year olds for The Brighton and Hove Children’s Festival. The workshop will feature a fusion of live art and scientific experimentation. Participants will work with Anna Dumitriu and Hannah Lewis to perform some unnecessary DNA extractions and genetic fingerprinting, create beautiful music from brainwaves with Luciana Haill and experience Richard Robinson’s stunning science magic. The workshop is free but you need to book in advance as spaces are limited.
The Institute of Unnecessary Research
Artists are innovators, if a new piece of technology or a new medium, becomes available; artists want to try it, to experiment with it, to push the boundaries. Some artists take on the role of a scientist in almost a performative way and some scientists equally take on the role of artist. Attitudes to science, medicine and art have changed over the last five hundred years, in that whilst Science has become more formalized, Art has become increasingly less so. By stepping outside the testable hypothesis artists are free to go off at tangents, to get bogged down in aesthetics and be mavericks.
The Institute of Unnecessary Research has developed a number of successful performances including recent events at Sussex University, The Launch of The Brighton Food and Drink Festival and The Whitechapel Gallery in London.
