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 Killman

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.