Some miscellaneous items of interest:<\/p>\n
**\u00a0This Performance Artist Is Also a Candidate for Space Travel – Creators<\/a> –\u00a0\u00a0Sarah Jane Pell<\/a> is a “Artist Astronaut” who believes that<\/p>\n \u00a0… the artistic and astronautics components of her work have equal weight. In other words, the art isn’t supplementary. “Calling art supplementary is like calling it decoration,” Pell tells Creators.<\/em><\/p>\n “The capacity of an artist is deeper, more complex and culturally significant: stemming from a philosophy of aesthetics and poetics from the sublime to the beautiful and grotesque and everything in between. It is an act, action and activism, a way of being in the world that translates curiosities, insights and provocations about our being in time. It can be invention, experimentation, improvisation, expression, and calculated methodical gesture and mark. Art may manifest in music, movement, the material arts and letters. Art knows no bounds, and therein lays the capacity for new discovery.”<\/em><\/p>\n