Following the St John Ogilvie exhibition in 1979 the Third
Eye Centre maintained its precedent for engaging communities beyond visual art
when it teamed up with the Association in Scotland to Research into Astronautics to produce The High Frontier.
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| Image Credit: The Third Eye Centre Archive |
‘One of the most ambitious spaceflight exhibitions ever held
in the UK’, exhibits drew from photographic coverage of various national and
international space programmes, along site models and actual space
hardware. A full supporting programme of
events and seminars included Spaced Out
season of Science Fiction Film at the GFT.
The exhibition catalogue discusses the imperative issues and
questions surrounding space research with an enthusiasm and imagination that
seems somewhat outmoded now after the public excitement and novelty of space
exploration has faded. This then
innovative concept of collaboration between visual arts orgnaisations and
divergent communities remains so and is still prevalent at the CCA today. But public issues and interests change and
innovations become commonplace, and as a consequence, the content of these
pervious collaborations perhaps no longer retain their place at the front line
of our interest...
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