Arts and culture
In the Making #7: { Dis, A } - Pearing
- Date
- Thursday 21 November 2024
- Time
- Address
- West in the former American Embassy
Lange Voorhout 102
The Hague
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art Institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the second season of the public series In the Making. This series, dedicated to the practice of research in the arts, will consist of seven public sessions taking place on a monthly basis.
The articulation of art and research has a long and rich tradition that has grown in scope and relevance in the past few decades. ACPA has played a significant role in this process, as it is an internationally pioneering institution that enables artists to conduct research through their own practice in a University context. In the Making is meant to both present to the public the research carried out within ACPA as well as to foster a dialogue with a number of international actors from a variety of disciplines.
Artistic research makes the relationship between art and society permeable. Rather than bracketed in the private realm of the lone artist or the sometimes-isolated circuits of the art market, artistic research opens up its practice to the public domain. Its methods become part of collective process of exploration and re-imagining. In the Making aims to deepen a perspective which conceives of artistic practice not as the sole product of individual visionaries but as a collective endeavor embedded in society. It addresses the role of art in the construction of the present and the creation of possible futures.
In the Making #7: { Dis, A } - Pearing
Between the fringes of Artistic Research and Quantum Physics, we have come to observe the strange occurrence of a pear that dis-a-pears. Its existence was first spotted by accident, during the seemingly polarised discussion and resistance of two fields in the effort of making a collective performance. While the intricacies of such pear unravel threads of thinking that would expand to events and phenomena of both cosmological and microscopic scales, we here take a step back and see: a pear that dis-a-pears brings joy and imagination to the peers in discussion to the point of lowest resistance, or superconductivity.
Presenters
Quantum & Arts Research Group is a research group from Leiden University investigating the intersections between Quantum Physics and Artistic Research by doctoral students and professors of both fields, initiated by Patrick Emonts. The group of researchers is currently composed by the physicists Eloïc Vallée, Esther Cruz Rico, Jordi Tura Brugués, Martine Schut, and the artists Anke Haarmann, Alexander Cromer, Christine Rafflenbeul and Luiz Zanotello.
Patrick Emonts obtained his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in 2022. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. His main research areas are quantum physics, nonlocality and numerical methods. In addition to his research efforts, he engages in science communication to make quantum physics understandable to a broader audience.
Anke Haarmann is a philosopher, artist, and design theoretician currently serving as Professor for Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts at Leiden University, where she directs the PhDArts doctoral programme. She is also Professor of Design Theory and Design Research at HAW Hamburg, where she established and directs the Centre for Design Research. She has been engaged in artistic research and publishing on epistemic practices for 15 years.
Christine Rafflenbeul is an artistic researcher. Her profession oscillates somewhere between chef, seafarer, care assistant, artisan and lecturer. She is a pragmatist at heart.Rafflenbeul understands her work as fundamental artistic research on artistic research. She focuses on the artistic research experiment and its relationship to formats and methods of knowledge production in artistic research. By experimenting with handcrafts she investigates practice-based modes of thinking. She aims to make visible a reflective meshwork of situated knowledges through artistic research methods that make aesthetic thinking comprehensible and thus artistic epistemic textures recognisable. Rafflenbeul is a trained chef. She graduated at HAW Hamburg with a MA in Fashion, Costume and Textile Product Design. In her final thesis ‘in the mode of n-1’ (2021) she investigated the relationships of body, space and clothing with a strong focus on developing her artistic research practice of speculative fashion making.
Eloïc Vallée is a PhD candidate in quantum information theory at Leiden University. Originally from Geneva (Switzerland), he studied in Lausanne and Zurich where he graduated with a Master of sciences in physics. His current research explores how entangled particles defy classical intuitions of space and separability, with potential applications in quantum communication and computing. Passionate about making quantum science accessible, Eloïc enjoys teaching and sharing his work in both formal settings and casual conversations. Outside of research, he stays active with sports and finds inspiration in music.
Luiz Zanotello is an artist, educator, researcher, and a migrant from Brazil living in Berlin. His work explores the poetics of translating the world in its mediated ecological complexity. With an MA in Digital Media from HfK Bremen, he is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University and a Research Fellow at HfK Bremen funded by the Studienstiftung. He was Assistant Professor for New Media at the UdK Berlin for six years and a guest lecturer for Artistic Research in Media Art at the HfK Bremen. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, and was a DAAD fellow, a Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung Preis awardee, and an artistic resident of the European Media Art Platform, Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others. Website: https://luizzanotello.com/
Alexander Cromer is a spoken word performance artist currently pursuing his PhD in artistic research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University x KABK. Together with his long time collaborator, Darius, he centers his research on voice within the contexts of performance theory, ancestral healing, and radical imagination. Using a combination of poetry/fiction, sonic acts, and performance, his work attempts to intimate a performance space with speculative pasts, presents, and futures as a means of investigating the nonlinearity of Blackness. By doing so, he aims to establish new relationships between human bodies which exist here and elsewhere in time and space in order to produce energies which disrupt and transform colonial systems.
Jordi Tura i Brugués is Associate Professor at Leiden University's Lorentz Institute, leading the Applied Quantum Algorithms group. He holds degrees in Mathematics and Telecommunications Engineering (UPC), an MSc in Applied Mathematics (UPC), and a PhD from ICFO (2015). He was a postdoc with Prof. Ignacio Cirac (MPQ), receiving Marie Curie and Humboldt fellowships. Jordi advises 10 PhD students and 6 postdocs, and his thesis earned awards like Springer Theses and UPC Special Doctoral Award. An editor for Quantum, he received the Google Research Scholar Award, ERC Starting Grant (2021), and EPS-AMOPD and Heineken Young Scientist Awards (2022).
Esther Cruz is a PhD candidate in quantum computation at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany. She earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from Complutense University of Madrid before moving to Germany for a master’s degree in physics, where she continued into her PhD. Her research focuses on quantum computation and algorithms and their application to understanding complex many-body physics. She is also passionate about science communication and exploring the societal impacts of science.
Martine Schut obtained her PhD at the University of Groningen on the broad subject of `Entangled Systems', in which she studied gravitationally mediated quantum entanglement, the loss of quantum-ness in a system, and knot theory. During her postdoc at the National University of Singapore she will continue this research on quantum entanglement. Additionally, she enjoys organising and speaking at outreach events, in the hope of insteresting teenagers to learn more about the sciences.