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To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of NASA’s Freedom 7 mission, which saw Alan Shepard become the ‘First Man in the Free World’ to enter low-earth orbit, <a href="http://kenhollings.blogspot.com/2011/04/living-in-space-talk-at-ica.html" target="_blank">Ken Hollings</a> will be presenting the lecture<a href="http://www.ica.org.uk/28343/Talks/Ken-Hollings-The-Stuff.html">‘Living in Space’</a> at the ICA in London on May 5. Taking place fifty years to the day when Shepard made his short – if heroic – ascent into space, my talk will be concerned with biological time, architecture and technology. Ken's presentation will  be accompanied by the sublime radiophonic tones of The Asterism on dials, wires and bleeps.

<em>Thursday 5 May, 7pm, Cinema 2, The ICA, SW1Y 5AH, London.</em>

<em>You can book tickets for this and other Strange Attractor Salon talks <a href="http://www.ica.org.uk/28162/Seasons/Strange-Attractor-Salon-From-Animism-to-Zos.html">here</a></em>

Followed by a film selected by artist Nathaniel Mellors:

<strong>Film: <em>The Stuff</em></strong>, <strong>8.30pm</strong>
The story of a mysterious, mind-devouring dessert that is discovered by a pair of miners.
<em>Dir Larry Cohen, 1985, 83 mins, DVD</em>

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