Lyn Hagan

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Lyn Hagan

Lyn Hagan is a London based writer, artist and founding director of LifeInSpace, graduate of Chelsea College of Art and former student at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. Her work principally tries to negotiate and transcend established ideas of theatricality and aesthetics around the idea that violence itself is an artistic event. As such, her work typically manifests itself through either its destruction or impermanence and in spaces that would not properly be considered stages and with non-typical ‘actors’.

Lyn has written, produced and directed a 9 hour performance piece ‘Letter to Daddy’ based upon principles of exhaustion and repetition which used four scenes from the film ‘Whatever happened to Baby Jane?’ as well as written a novel ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ about the last day in an asylum for the Surrealist playwright Antonin Artaud. Her current work is the Cat and Mouse in 0g that situates the animals as actors in a staged environment. Their predatorprey instincts form the script for the performance, and the play will form through their reactions to one another and any adaption over the repeated parabolas and states of weightlessness.

After interest from a project scientist at ESA, she is simultaneously beginning to structure a project that may see art on Mars for the next ExoMars Rover mission in 2013. Her suggestion is to choreograph a dance for the robot on Mars for when the scientific mission is over using its autonomous navigation system.