- Artist
- Lea Porsager
- Year
- 2018
- Medium
- Single-channel 3D film with sound, 62"; Daybeds, foam-mattresses, bedspreads (dimensions variable); anaglyph 3D glasses; Sushumna Nadi Avatar (original neutrino horn from CERN (3250 x 700mm)
- Artistic Residency
- Collide
CØSMIC STRIKE sites a neutrino horn from CERN’s archive alongside an immersive 3D animation
Through her work, Lea Porsager seeks to associate spirituality, sensuality, and language, offering alternative means of experiencing and situating science today.
CØSMIC STRIKE explores the neutrino: an enigmatic, mysterious particle that challenges some of the models currently being researched in contemporary science. The neutrino horn is an instrument scientists at CERN use as they conduct experiments to test theories about the particles, focusing neutrinos into a sharp beam. Through the 3D animation, the viewer is invited to experience ‘neutrino- imaginations’ from the inside of the horn: in the work, it becomes a ghostly container of oscillation, vibrations and irritation.
The work is a superposition of hard science and loopy mysticism which aims to invoke a repetitive, occult, and oddly interstellar scene. By disrupting quantum technologies with esoteric propositions, Porsager’s work engages with a myriad of impossible and impassable worlds, with a suggestive call for other perceptions.
