Fertile Void - Quantum Cosmologies between Science, Stories, and Speculation (Day2)

Celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, Fertile Void grapples with questions posed by the quantum era. Focusing on cosmological inquiries, cross-disciplinary research, and new technologies, it aims to bridge the gaps in understanding that so often mark engagement with quantum phenomena. Touching upon interdisciplinary fields such as quantum biology, Fertile Void seeks a science that accounts for the pluriversal proposition that the world is entangled yet relational—both one and many.

Quantum cosmology connects both human and non-human life as well as the Earth and the cosmos itself. In this sense, it resonates with the interdisciplinary nature of other cosmological approaches, such Ayurvedic teachings, Inca cosmology, sixteenth-century Jewish mysticism, the divination systems of the Ifá, or Blackfoot metaphysics. Each asks questions about the relationship between living matter and inertia, the materialization of the world from seeming nothingness, and the patterns and movements that align to emerge as phenomena. Might contemporary quantum approaches be translations of these older forms of making sense of the world, reappearing in a different shape?

Through performances, discourse, and installations, Fertile Void investigates how different ways of knowing and being can contribute to understanding the social realities that emerge from quantum theorems, just as they become actualized by technology.

Programme Day 2: 

13:00h - Interactive Session Twelve Degrees Below the Horizon. A Workshop between Observation, Collapse, and Possibility  with Ale de la Puente

13:00h - Workshop Kosmos, Körper, Klang: Ein multisensorisches Abenteuer für Kinder ab 8 Jahren with Yosa Peit

15:00h - Conversation Zwölf Grad... a Conversation on Art and/as Science with  Ale de la Puente and Marilu Chiofalo

16:30h - Keynote The Future of Biology is Quantum – How Nature might run on Quantum Physics, and why this matters by Clarice Aiello with subsequent presentations by the Quantum Biology Hacklab

19:30h - Screening HUM and Conversation with Tania Candiani, Sundar Sarukkai and houaïda

With: Clarice D. Aiello, Tania Candiani, Ife Day, houaïda, Ale de la Puente, Sundar Sarukkai, Sandar TunTun, Marilu Chiofalo, Yosa Peit, Iara Patrícia, Gesa Grüning, ôolong, Abbas Omid Hassasfar, Pedro Henrique Pereira de Carvalho Alvarez.

Made possible by Schering Stiftung. 

With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut.