Exhibition showcasing the last three years of Collide International
Geneva, 16 October 2018.
Collide Residency Award 2020 was launched on the 27 of October and has already had a thrilling response from artists that look with interest towards science. The call for entries is now open and will continue receiving submissions until the deadline on the 7 of December.
We are well aware that it is not always easy to know the scope of scientific research and to imagine how an artist can engage with science and particularly with physics. For this reason we have organised a ‘Collide Info day’ to encourage participation, to learn about CERN in Geneva, and research centres in Barcelona, to clarify doubts about the call, the terms and conditions of the residency, and how to imagine significant dialogues between artists and scientists.
Collide 2020 is made thanks to the cooperation with the city of Barcelona, and hosted by Hangar, creating a unique opportunity for exploring both CERN and Barcelona. The Info Day will also explain details of how the residency works between both centres.
During the Collide Info Day you will have the opportunity to listen to Julia Miralles, Science and University Advisor of the Barcelona City Council together with Mónica Bello, Curator and Head of Arts at CERN and Lluis Nacenta, Director of Hangar introducing Collide and the framework of collaboration between CERN and Barcelona. Helga Timko, particle physicist working in the operation of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and Xavier Luri, director of The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona will explain the fundamental research conducted in laboratories in Geneva and Barcelona. Dutch artist winner of Collide International 2019, Rosa Menkman will share her experience during the residencies and how these experiences have shaped her artistic practice.
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The international touring exhibition Quantum/Broken Symmetries began at Collide International, the programme of Arts at CERN in collaboration with FACT Liverpool between 2016 and 2018. The exhibition brings together 12 artworks by 11 international artists who were invited to reside at CERN to advance their artistic practice by establishing dialogues with particle physicists, engineers, IT experts and staff. From 30 October 2020 – 21 February 2021, Broken Symmetries will be hosted at Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn (Estonia).
Particle physics and the aesthetic complexity of accelerators together create endless inspiration for artists seeking to imagine scientific objects with artistic expression. In recent years, CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, has fostered novel models of collaboration between the arts and science within the context of the lab. Artists are invited to spend time in the lab establishing significant dialogues with physicists, engineers and the staff of the laboratory, and they become members of the unique fundamental science community.
Broken Symmetries/Quantum gathers the outcome of these exchanges under the curation of Mónica Bello, curator and head of Arts at CERN, and Peruvian researcher and curator José Carlos Mariátegui along with the physicist José Ignacio Latorre as the scientific advisor. The exhibition also expresses the synergies of the artists within CERN’s extraordinary creative community of scientists, engineers and staff.
Encompassing a wide range of artistic practices, the works by Julieta Aranda, Alan Bogana, Diann Bauer, James Bridle, hrm199, Yunchul Kim, Mariele Neudecker, Lea Porsager, Semiconductor, Suzanne Treister and Yu-Chen Wang delve into narratives that can be traced to the fundamental and philosophical foundations of science.