A performance of light, sound, dance and knowledge
The worlds of science and the arts usually have few connection points. The Cluster of Excellence QuantumFrontiers and the artists Niels Weijer and Michael Tuttle want to change that and brought quantum physics and performing arts together in a dance piece.
For this, the choreographer and the musician have dealt with the research topics of the Cluster of Excellence such as gravity, light and matter waves. For their performance, they take up these themes and translate them into movement, colour and sound in order to express them artistically.
In the performance choreographed by Niels Weijer, he and his dance partner Mike O'Connor move large LED rings glowing in different colours in interaction with a sound installation by Micheal Tuttle. In the dark performance space, an aesthetic installation is created that can be experienced with all the senses.
Colours of QuantumFrontiers on podcast
On 10 August, Summer Banks published an episode about the Colours of QuantumFrontiers in her podcast The Department of Useful Art. She follows artists Niels Wejer and Michael Tuttle on their journey through laboratories, concepts and matter waves and their endeavour to create a new kind of collaboration between art and science. In interviews with artists, scientists and visitors of the performance, she traces the development of the Colours of QuantumFrontiers from up close.
Link to the podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/science-and-art-special-colours-of-quantum-frontiers--60980659
