Space Tangle Opening Event

Please join us for the opening of the exhibition Space Tangle. A special late opening of the exhibition, drinks reception and a panel discussion where Sarah and invited Guests Luke Jerram and Victor Buchli will together explore the despecialisation, and democratisation of Space Research and through their varied practices and approach they explore outer space; the ultimate landscape of possibility.

Arrivals 5.30pm

Drinks Reception 5.45-6.45pm

Panel Discussion 7-8pm

Event Ends 9pm

About the exhibition

Since 1999, the United Nations General Assembly has recognised October 4-10th of each year as World Space Week; an international celebration focussing on how science and technology can better humanity. UCL’s newly commissioned artwork Cosmic Debris and exhibition Space Tangle will form one of over 16,000 events taking place across 83 nations for World Space Week. The 2025 theme for World Space Week is Living in Space.

Space Tangle brings together three distinct works by artist Dr Sarah Fortais: Cosmic Debris, Cosmic Flock, and Lunga 6. Cosmic Debris will also become the setting for the site-specific vocal work Fragments, composed and performed by Filament Theatre. The exhibition explores the often-hidden entanglements between people, place, animals, and materials that shape how we imagine and make future worlds. Using outer space, the ultimate landscape of possibility, imagination, and future-thinking, Fortais asks us to consider what is overlooked: our relationship to waste, to the discarded, the backgrounded, the unnoticed. What about the animals? What of the materials that gain new value under different conditions?

Space Tangle brings into focus the overlooked networks and forgotten agents that shape our collective planetary and extraterrestrial futures.

You can read more about the exhibition here.

Host or Publisher UCL East Engagement