John Gerrad "X. Iaevis (Spacelab) 2017
Wellcome Collection, "Electricity, the spark of life"
"X. laevis (Spacelab) 2017 is a newly commissioned simulation by Irish artist John Gerrard,
which responds to Luigi Galvani’s 18th-century experiments in which he studied the effects of electricity on the amputated legs of dead frogs. The experiment represented, however, is one that occurred over 200 years after Galvani’s work, during the second mission of the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. This later experiment established that vertebrates in the form of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) could reproduce in zero gravity – perhaps in anticipation of a future in which sustaining life beyond Earth becomes critical to human survival."
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