Ent-, 2022
5 channel immersive projection, 4 channel sound, 10 min video version and interactive playable application
Dimensions variable
Ed. of 2/5 + 2 AP
Ent- delves into the transformative potential of quantum computing and its future impact on humans and non-humans. Ent- was the first iteration of Heaney’s exploration of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. It is an immersive experience that invites audience members, who now replace the figures in Bosch's painting, to feel like quantum particles. perhaps destabilized by the encompassing projection. Ent- has showcased at prestigious museums like HEK Basel, ZKM Karlsruhe and numerous others. It was originally commissioned by LAS Art Foundation, Berlin.
Heaney uses her self-written quantum computing code to manipulate and animate her own watercolour paintings, centering and celebrating hybrid creatures inspired by Bosch’s medieval monsters, landscapes that seem to shift and breathe, and exploding structures that float and re-form. Heaney chose to work with watercolour in particular because of its dream-like aesthetic and the magical bleeding of colours into one another reflects the merging and blurring of the quantum world.
Ent- brings audiences closer to quantum’s materiality, to see and feel what it means to be in a superposition – in two or more states at once. These new quantum ways of being are starting points to reimagine our material existence and contemplate possible futures away from binary categorisations.
ABOUT Libby Heaney
