Kerr, Sunny; Lichtig, Nadia; Ntjam, Josèfa; Riley, Anne and Thoms, Jol. 2023. DRIFT: Art and Dark Matter. [Exhibition Catalogue]

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What do we desire from the imperceptible? Four artists were invited to travel deep underground to SNOLAB to think with dark matter, an invisible matter that is having a gravitational effect on everything. Without this “dark” matter, galaxies would fly apart, according to observational data in astroparticle physics. Given the contours of such a “known unknown,” Nadia Lichtig, Josèfa Ntjam, Anne Riley, and Jol Thoms reflect on the how and why of physics and art as interrelating practices. The artists’ widely varied and challenging responses include expressions of new kinds of sensitivity and poetic freedom, questions about the task of knowledge, and cartographies of entangled social and ecological relations. Thinking across disciplines, they have created works that connect scientific ideas of dark matter with a far-reaching care for that which has not been sensed. Could this work excite stealthy solidarities of curiosity across (and despite) art and science?

Drift: Art and Dark Matter. Edited by Sunny Kerr. With contributions by Emelie Chhangur, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sunny Kerr, Nadia Lichtig, Art McDonald, Josèfa Ntjam, Anne Riley, and Jol Thoms. Design by K. Verlag with Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.

English
182 pages
17 x 24 cm
Full color, richly illustrated
Softcover, thread-sewn, spot varnish, embossing, and Pantone dyed book edge
ISBN: 978-3-947858-14-9
Institutional partner: Agnes Etherington Gallery, Queens University

Published on 01 June 2023

Item Type:	Exhibition Catalogue
Additional Information:	Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre from 20 February to 30 May 2021. Co-published by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, K. Verlag, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Carleton University Art Gallery, and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Keywords:	artscience, ecology, catalogue, installation, video
Related URLs:	https://kverlag.com/products/drift?_pos=...
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art Art > Centre for Art and Ecology
Date:	1 June 2023
Event Location:	Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
Date range:	20 February - 30 May 2021
Item ID:	38294
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2025 11:58
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2025 11:58
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38294

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