Diffracting the Copenhagen Interpretation (DCI) by Søren Kjærgaard

'Diffracting the Copenhagen Interpretation: Toward non-local collaborative art practices' investigates the resonances of concepts from quantum theory in the realm of transdisciplinary practice-based artistic research. Throughout a series of protocols using diffractive methodologies, we intend to translate and embody concepts such as spacetime, entanglement, non-locality, uncertainty, indeterminacy, and superpositionality, and embed them as tools for our artistic practices. These concepts were chosen for their singularity in physics, but also for the ways in which they confront ontoepistemic pillars of ‘Modernity’, such as sequentiality, determinacy and separability. The research is carried out by a transdisciplinary non-local core ensemble formed by Søren Kjærgaard, Amilcar Packer, and Carla Zaccagnini. The cities we inhabit – Copenhagen, Sao Paulo and Malmö – have been our laboratories. Departing from tools and methods learned from each-other's disciplines, we have been creating scores to guide our relationship to these urban spaces. The scores conduct our collective experiencing of our cities through a practice we call ‘non-local walking’, involving a diffractive methodology of reading and listening, and the entangled collecting of objects, words and other affections found in the urban terrain. These experiments are conceived as a boundary-crossing transdisciplinary methodology through which we seek to engage with a non-local city, creating a relational, critical consciousness and sensing that stimulates unexpected outcomes. These scored performances have resulted on cartographies, drawings, moving sculptures, audio works and writings. Across these various materializations of the non-local walks, unexpected connections, constellations, and coincidents e/merge, unveiling yet unheard polyphonies that give resonance to these urban spaces, as potentized terrains awaiting (re)circuitry, and, as fields of forces that await to be (re)experienced.

Listening with the City

... in its calling, yearning, desiring, despairing. Listening with the city is a listening practice situative of manifold nuances, resonances and dissonances. Performed together with others, non-locally, the listening practice engages listeners to be wakefully present where ever they are, while at the same time bringing awareness beyond one's local situatedness, toward one's collaborators in other urban spaces.

Weaving Conversations

Transciptions of the conversations superimposed with transpositions of the walking routes.

Listening for actions

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Søren Kjærgaard - Diffracting the Copenhagen Interpretation (DCI) - 2024