Space and time bend. Intuition falters. What do we really know? Monopoles is a weekend of exhibitions, talks and performances featuring cutting edge physics alongside award-winning art, film, poetry and music.
Monopoles brings the search for the magnetic monopole at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) into a Bermondsey art space. The weekend will open with an evening of screenings, performance and a talk by Professor Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College, London), a leading authority on magnetic monopoles.
The monopole is a hypothetical particle with only one magnetic pole. If found, it would change how we think about space, time and the universe. In collaboration with physicists at Imperial College London, and co-curated by Yates Norton and Emma Stirling, Monopoles is a new cross-disciplinary exhibition that brings scientists and artists together to explore anti-intuitive ideas that test the boundaries of our knowledge.
Details of the full timetable of talks and performances can be found on the Ugly Duck website here uglyduck.org.uk/monopoles
Admission free
Opening times:
Friday 28 Oct, 6-8.30pm: Exhibition Opening
– 7pm: ‘Magnetic Monopoles’, a talk by Professor Arttu Rajantie (physicist, Imperial College)
– 7.30pm: a short play by Ewen Maclachlan
Saturday 29 Oct, 12 noon-6pm
-2-3pm: ‘This Tremendous World of Interconnecting Hierarchies’, a talk by Geraldine Cox (artist in residence, Imperial College) on nature and physics
– 4-4:45pm: Theory and Experiment, a conversation with Yates Norton (art historian), Oliver Gould (physicist, Imperial College), Thomas Haworth (astrophysicist, Imperial College) and Santiago Cabrera Marquez (physicist, Imperial College)
Sunday 30 Oct, 12 noon-6pm
– 4-4.30pm: ‘What is a particle?’ Giulia Ferlito (physicist, Imperial College)