Science and the contemporary condition: a conversation between Armin Linke, Mónica Bello, and Carlos Salgado

Two scientists work at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), LEGEND experiment — Stefan Schönert, Patrick Kranse, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), LEGEND experiment, clean room, mounting the liquid argon instrumentation, L' Aquila, Italy, 2021 Courtesy of the artist and Vistamare Milano / Pescara

The Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea hosts the conversation Science and the contemporary condition as part of Armin Linke’s exhibition Instruments of Vision at the Igrexa da Universidade in Santiago de Compostela.

The conversation will bring together artist Armin Linke, Mónica Bello, curator of the exhibition and head of Arts at CERN, and Carlos Salgado, director of the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE).

Speakers will address the dynamics and culture of particle physics laboratories. Drawing on his two-decade artistic practice, Armin Linke will share the diverse range of strategies employed in Instruments of Vision as well as previous projects, such as Image Capital, a recent exhibition developed in collaboration between the Fondazione MAST, the Folkwang Museum and the Centre Pompidou. In this way, the artist will provide insights into how art relates to the complexities of contemporary conditions, especially regarding research communities and scientific environments. Mónica Bello will discuss her work in leading and designing the programmes of Arts at CERN, while Carlos Salgado will reflect on his work as a theoretical physicist specialising in the study of quantum chromodynamics and IGFAE’s ArtLab programme.