superposition is a performance created by visual and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda that explores the way we understand the reality of nature on an atomic scale. Inspired by the mathematical notions of quantum mechanics, Ikeda employs a spectacular combination of synchronized video screens, real-time content feeds, digital sound sculptures, and for the first time in Ikeda’s work, human performers. Ikeda poetically harnesses the simplest elements of all data and explodes them outward into the infinite potential of science and art. His immersive and viscerally exciting music plunges into the grey space between 0 and 1, true and false, where uncertainty and probability coexist, through a powerful display of technology and art designed to take the spectator inside the indescribable structures at the very foundation of all life. “A sound and music event that is simultaneously extraordinarily, mesmerically beautiful, and also so radically disorienting that afterwards you feel as if the world has tilted to one side.” (TheArtsDesk.com)
Tune In with UMS for a brief pre-performance talk before select Renegade series performances, including this superposition performance. Just 15 minutes long, each Tune In will offer interesting information and provocative questions for thinking about, listening to, and watching the performance. The Renegade series celebrates artistic innovation, experimentation, and discovery. Location and speaker to be announced.
Performance note:
75 minutes, no intermission.
Tune In with UMS for a brief pre-performance talk before select Renegade series performances, including this superposition performance. Just 15 minutes long, each Tune In will offer interesting information and provocative questions for thinking about, listening to, and watching the performance. The Renegade series celebrates artistic innovation, experimentation, and discovery. Location and speaker to be announced.
Performance note:
75 minutes, no intermission.
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