This exposition documents the ongoing process of the inherent artistic research project. In "contents" upper left toolbar, you can visit the different methodological approaches of the research practice.

Diffracting the Copenhagen Interpretation: Toward non-local collaborative art practices investigates the resonances of concepts from quantum field theory in the realm of transdisciplinary practice-based artistic research. We are interested in the humanist threads present in Niels Bohr’s thinking, recently enhanced within Philosophy and the Arts.

Between March and Oct ’23, we developed a KUV modningsprojekt that enabled the conduction of intense sessions of collective study and work among ourselves, with a group of students, and through a series of transdisciplinary workshops and lectures with specialists. Throughout this process we asked: How can we translate, embed, and embody concepts proposed by quantum physics as tools for our artistic practices? And how can we develop diffractive methodologies to unfold transdisciplinary potentials across our artistic and pedagogical practices?  We then established a methodological approach by designing, performing, and documenting collective artistic experiments grounded in key concepts such as spacetime, entanglement, non-locality, uncertainty, indeterminacy, superpositionality and diffraction. These concepts were chosen for their singularity in Physics, for their echoes within the arts, and for their contribution to social justice matters. On the one hand, these concepts confront ontoepistemic pillars of ‘Modernity: sequentiality, determinacy and separability. On the other hand, fostering collective and collaborative work, operating through relational fields, is a way to contest the centrality and alleged autonomy of the modern subject, which is thus transformed into an interdependent and incomplete figure in a dynamic assemblage.

We now want to further investigate the potentiality of scientific and artistic performative experiments through the methodological design of protocols for a more solid transdisciplinary artistic collaboration. We will focus on the concepts of non-locality and indeterminacy to establish new ways to entangle our practices and collaborate transnationally – to produce works together, at the same time, while not in the same place – reducing physical displacement. The development of our collective practice will manifest through performances, cartographies, audio work and writings. Furthermore, we will continue to work within a diffractive methodological framework, thus contributing to the growing field concerning both diffractive artistic (research) practices and diffractive pedagogy.