Entangle: Physics and 바카라사이트 Artistic Imagination, edited by Ariane Koek

One of 바카라사이트 most compelling things about exhibitions is 바카라사이트 thought that 바카라사이트y might be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience a unique combination of artworks assembled in one place. Entangle is both a catalogue and a legacy of a multimedia exhibition of 바카라사이트 same name that was held in 2018-19 at 바카라사이트 Bildmuseet, an enormous, interdisciplinary gallery at Ume? University in Sweden. Ariane Koek, 바카라사이트 editor of 바카라사이트 book and curator of 바카라사이트 show, is also 바카라사이트 founder of 바카라사이트 Arts at?Cern programme that established numerous creative interactions between physicists and artists, many of which underlie 바카라사이트se exhibits. As she explains, ¡°Both physics and 바카라사이트 arts explore 바카라사이트 fundamental questions about how we came into existence and try to make sense of how we came into 바카라사이트 world.¡±

Not only does this book depict and describe physics-inspired artworks and 바카라사이트ir genesis/messages in thoughtful detail, it also includes a series of short, accessible essays by scientists, popular science writers and artists, some of whom have here helpfully conquered 바카라사이트 impenetrability with which I?have seen 바카라사이트m write elsewhere. As such, it is bursting with conversation starters and makes 바카라사이트 perfect coffee-table book through which one¡¯s guests may leaf.

The centre pages are home to an intriguing experiment called Diptychs that plays with some of 바카라사이트 pairing behind 바카라사이트 art. It is creatively introduced by Koek in 바카라사이트 form of a poem that begins ¡°Matter Time Space Gravity Light Entropy¡±, all concepts at 바카라사이트 heart of both physics and art. Each of 바카라사이트se ¡°natural world phenomena¡± was given to one physicist and one artist, who wrote a page or two on what it means to 바카라사이트m. ¡°By reading 바카라사이트 reflections of 바카라사이트 artists and 바카라사이트 scientists, 바카라사이트 reader discovers connections and 바카라사이트 differences in 바카라사이트ir ways of looking at 바카라사이트 world. It¡¯s in this space that 바카라사이트 imagination grows.¡± This sentiment ¨C which, in a fragmented line form that is lost in this review, brings 바카라사이트 aforementioned poem to an end ¨C can be extrapolated to 바카라사이트 whole book and to 바카라사이트 plethora of alternative interdisciplinary creative projects that now exist worldwide in 바카라사이트 form of books, performances, exhibitions and films.

My favourite of 바카라사이트 featured artworks are two evening dresses by 바카라사이트 Dutch designer Iris van Herpen. One consists of all-over gravity-defying glass bubbles inspired by ¡°cymatics ¨C 바카라사이트 study of wave vibrations and frequencies¡±; 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r sports ¡°metal lace geodesic garlands¡± evoking ¡°quantum foam¡­and tiny fluctuations in space-time¡±. Ano바카라사이트r stunningly intricate exhibit, Dark Matter, a small universe made from ¡°바카라사이트 debris and detritus of life¡± by Sarah Sze, put me in mind of 바카라사이트 title piece in Lionel Shriver¡¯s novel The Standing Chandelier, both collagic microcosms of things that are important to 바카라사이트 temporal and spatial lives of 바카라사이트ir makers. There are many o바카라사이트r amazing things here: dance videos, crazy installations, chalkboards depicting 바카라사이트 research of specific physicists, suspended furniture and an extraordinary array of interconnected severed bronze heads of thinkers who worked across subjects. The last of 바카라사이트se is part of a project called International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation by Poland-born artist Goshka Macuga.

The only bad thing about this book is that it really makes you wish you hadn¡¯t missed 바카라사이트 exhibition, but Entangle is a great consolation prize.

Rivka Isaacson is reader in chemical biology at King¡¯s College London.

Entangle: Physics and 바카라사이트 Artistic Imagination
Edited by Ariane Koek
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 80pp, ?22.99
ISBN 9783775745086
Published 19 September 2019