{ Dis, A } - Pearing by Quantum & Arts Research Group
Please join the session #7 of In the Making, a collaboration between West Den Haag and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA).
Between the fringes of Artistic Research and Quantum Physics, we have come to observe the strange occurrence of a pear that dis-a-pears. Its existence was first spotted by accident, during the seemingly polarised discussion and resistance of two fields in the effort of making a collective performance. While the intricacies of such pear unravel threads of thinking that would expand to events and phenomena of both cosmological and microscopic scales, we here take a step back and see: a pear that dis-a-pears brings joy and imagination to the peers in discussion to the point of lowest resistance, or superconductivity.
Presenters
Quantum & Arts Research Group
is a research group from Leiden University investigating the intersections between Quantum Physics and Artistic Research by doctoral students and professors of both fields, initiated by Patrick Emonts. The group of researchers is currently composed by the physicists Eloïc Vallée, Esther Cruz Rico, Jordi Tura Brugués, Martine Schut, and the artists Anke Haarmann, Alexander Cromer, Christine Rafflenbeul and Luiz Zanotello.
Quantum & Arts Research Group
is a research group from Leiden University investigating the intersections between Quantum Physics and Artistic Research by doctoral students and professors of both fields, initiated by Patrick Emonts. The group of researchers is currently composed by the physicists Eloïc Vallée, Esther Cruz Rico, Jordi Tura Brugués, Martine Schut, and the artists Anke Haarmann, Alexander Cromer, Christine Rafflenbeul and Luiz Zanotello.
Patrick Emonts
obtained his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in 2022. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. His main research areas are quantum physics, nonlocality and numerical methods. In addition to his research efforts, he engages in science communication to make quantum physics understandable to a broader audience.
Patrick Emonts
obtained his PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in 2022. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University. His main research areas are quantum physics, nonlocality and numerical methods. In addition to his research efforts, he engages in science communication to make quantum physics understandable to a broader audience.
Anke Haarmann
is a philosopher, artist, and design theoretician currently serving as Professor for Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts at Leiden University, where she directs the PhDArts doctoral programme. She is also Professor of Design Theory and Design Research at HAW Hamburg, where she established and directs the Centre for Design Research. She has been engaged in artistic research and publishing on epistemic practices for 15 years.
Anke Haarmann
is a philosopher, artist, and design theoretician currently serving as Professor for Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts at Leiden University, where she directs the PhDArts doctoral programme. She is also Professor of Design Theory and Design Research at HAW Hamburg, where she established and directs the Centre for Design Research. She has been engaged in artistic research and publishing on epistemic practices for 15 years.
Christine Rafflenbeul
is an artistic researcher. Her profession oscillates somewhere between chef, seafarer, care assistant, artisan and lecturer. She is a pragmatist at heart.Rafflenbeul understands her work as fundamental artistic research on artistic research. She focuses on the artistic research experiment and its relationship to formats and methods of knowledge production in artistic research. By experimenting with handcrafts she investigates practice-based modes of thinking. She aims to make visible a reflective meshwork of situated knowledges through artistic research methods that make aesthetic thinking comprehensible and thus artistic epistemic textures recognisable. Rafflenbeul is a trained chef. She graduated at HAW Hamburg with a MA in Fashion, Costume and Textile Product Design. In her final thesis ‘in the mode of n-1’ (2021) she investigated the relationships of body, space and clothing with a strong focus on developing her artistic research practice of speculative fashion making.
Christine Rafflenbeul
is an artistic researcher. Her profession oscillates somewhere between chef, seafarer, care assistant, artisan and lecturer. She is a pragmatist at heart.Rafflenbeul understands her work as fundamental artistic research on artistic research. She focuses on the artistic research experiment and its relationship to formats and methods of knowledge production in artistic research. By experimenting with handcrafts she investigates practice-based modes of thinking. She aims to make visible a reflective meshwork of situated knowledges through artistic research methods that make aesthetic thinking comprehensible and thus artistic epistemic textures recognisable. Rafflenbeul is a trained chef. She graduated at HAW Hamburg with a MA in Fashion, Costume and Textile Product Design. In her final thesis ‘in the mode of n-1’ (2021) she investigated the relationships of body, space and clothing with a strong focus on developing her artistic research practice of speculative fashion making.
Eloïc Vallée
is a PhD candidate in quantum information theory at Leiden University. Originally from Geneva (Switzerland), he studied in Lausanne and Zurich where he graduated with a Master of sciences in physics. His current research explores how entangled particles defy classical intuitions of space and separability, with potential applications in quantum communication and computing. Passionate about making quantum science accessible, Eloïc enjoys teaching and sharing his work in both formal settings and casual conversations. Outside of research, he stays active with sports and finds inspiration in music.
Eloïc Vallée
is a PhD candidate in quantum information theory at Leiden University. Originally from Geneva (Switzerland), he studied in Lausanne and Zurich where he graduated with a Master of sciences in physics. His current research explores how entangled particles defy classical intuitions of space and separability, with potential applications in quantum communication and computing. Passionate about making quantum science accessible, Eloïc enjoys teaching and sharing his work in both formal settings and casual conversations. Outside of research, he stays active with sports and finds inspiration in music.
Luiz Zanotello
is an artist, educator, researcher, and a migrant from Brazil living in Berlin. His work explores the poetics of translating the world in its mediated ecological complexity. With an MA in Digital Media from HfK Bremen, he is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University and a Research Fellow at HfK Bremen funded by the Studienstiftung. He was Assistant Professor for New Media at the UdK Berlin for six years and a guest lecturer for Artistic Research in Media Art at the HfK Bremen. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, and was a DAAD fellow, a Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung Preis awardee, and an artistic resident of the European Media Art Platform, Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others. Website: https://luizzanotello.com/
Luiz Zanotello
is an artist, educator, researcher, and a migrant from Brazil living in Berlin. His work explores the poetics of translating the world in its mediated ecological complexity. With an MA in Digital Media from HfK Bremen, he is currently a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University and a Research Fellow at HfK Bremen funded by the Studienstiftung. He was Assistant Professor for New Media at the UdK Berlin for six years and a guest lecturer for Artistic Research in Media Art at the HfK Bremen. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, and was a DAAD fellow, a Petra & Dieter Frese Stiftung Preis awardee, and an artistic resident of the European Media Art Platform, Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others. Website: https://luizzanotello.com/
Alexander Cromer
is a spoken word performance artist currently pursuing his PhD in artistic research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University x KABK. Together with his long time collaborator, Darius, he centers his research on voice within the contexts of performance theory, ancestral healing, and radical imagination. Using a combination of poetry/fiction, sonic acts, and performance, his work attempts to intimate a performance space with speculative pasts, presents, and futures as a means of investigating the nonlinearity of Blackness. By doing so, he aims to establish new relationships between human bodies which exist here and elsewhere in time and space in order to produce energies which disrupt and transform colonial systems.
Alexander Cromer
is a spoken word performance artist currently pursuing his PhD in artistic research at the PhDArts program at Leiden University x KABK. Together with his long time collaborator, Darius, he centers his research on voice within the contexts of performance theory, ancestral healing, and radical imagination. Using a combination of poetry/fiction, sonic acts, and performance, his work attempts to intimate a performance space with speculative pasts, presents, and futures as a means of investigating the nonlinearity of Blackness. By doing so, he aims to establish new relationships between human bodies which exist here and elsewhere in time and space in order to produce energies which disrupt and transform colonial systems.