crash/catapult/float

In 1977, a team of scientists, artists and engineers tried to answer an impossible question: how would you explain life on earth? 

The result was the Golden Record: a whale song, human greetings in 55 languages, the sound of a heartbeat and other soundbites of human life, captured on a disc and catapulted into the stars aboard the Voyager 1. For decades, it has captured imaginations as humanity’s strange and loving self-portrait, delivered as a mixtape for the universe.

Today, crash/catapult/float tackles that same question, but asks an additional one: what would the planet have said, if it could have spoken for itself? 

Presented as a sci-fi installation and performance piece about the magnificence of our planet, crash/catapult/float is a love letter to what has been, and a song for the future.

Built from live performance, video design, object theatre and micro-cinema, Snap-Elastic conjures the wonder and scale of earth’s history, present and future.

crash/catapult/float is a living time-capsule for the here and now; a space to celebrate the beauty and complexity of life, and to ask what we leave behind when we’re gone.

Credits

Director - Eszter Marsalko

Designer - Anna Orton

Video Designer - Lillian Ross-Millard

Sound Designer and Composer - Sonia Killmann

Lighting Designer and AV Technician - Jamie Wardrop

Design Associate - Amy Jones

Performers - Claire Willoughby & Pik Kei Wong

Dramaturg - Tim Spooner

Technical Stage Manager - Craig McNeill

Production Manager - Grahame Coyle

Producer - Isy Sharman

Marketing and Communications by Farah Cormack

With thanks to previous collaborators Bex Anson, Alisa Kalyanova, Daniel Padden, Dylan Read and Solène Weinachter.

Supported by Creative Scotland through their multi-year funding, crash/catapult/float has previously been developed with support from Manipulate Arts Creative Fund, Tramway Supports, Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Nordland Visual Theatre (Figurteatret).