Quantum Prelude
8-channel video installation. 26’
Quantum Prelude is a sound action for voices and instruments where different paradigms of understanding life are intertwined, exploring the connections between ancestral Indigenous cosmogonies to the narratives of quantum physics.
The 8-channel video installation combines images from CERN’s archives and footage from 64 musicians playing at MUAC’s Espacio Escultórico – a circular megalithic monument circumscribed by the same number of triangular prisms. A poetic narration around the notions of our universe and a music composition by Rogelio Sosa accompany the visual imagery.
Described by the artist as a ‘choreographic narration’, the musicians replicate the arithmetic and harmonic qualities that constitute the sonority of music and the laws of physics.
Quantum Prelude premiered in Tania Candiani’s solo show Like a Trace, Its Sound at MUAC Mexico. This work was produced after Tania Candiani’s research at CERN as part of our Guest Artists programme thanks to the support to Arts at CERN of the Didier and Martine Primat Foundation and its special fund Odonata. This partnership is part of a multi-year collaboration and grant scheme which aims to foster creative interactions between arts, sciences and nature.