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I was watching a dead clock above our head.

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It feels like it's entangled with some clock that's in repair somewhere in Geneva or somewhere.

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So we discussed quantum from the point of view of science, of business, of policymaking.

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What about art?

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Artists also have a point of view on science and also on quantum technologies.

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What about our own perceptions of this technology and the perception of artists and how to return it into artworks?

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So some of you may know and some others may be surprised by the fact that CERN,

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the biggest research center in particle physics in the world, looking at the universe, also has an art project.

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It's called Art at CERN. It's hosted here.

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It invites artists in to stay in a residency for several weeks to talk with physicists, to use the data from the accelerator to explore ways to turn those data into artworks and exhibitions.

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And in 2016, the artist-in-residence, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of her home of Taiwan, was the dancer, choreographer, and new media explorer, Wen-Chi Su.

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In the meantime, she has created a series of works inspired by physics and by different scales.

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She's going to bring us on a bit of voyage beyond the zeros and ones, and she's going to do that together with Franco-Taiwanese artist Yifang Lin.

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Please welcome Wen-Chi Su and Yifang.

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Thank you.

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Zero and one.

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Particle and wave.

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What is the link from dance to quantum?

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We live in the classical world, and for us,

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quantum is invisible.

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It surrounds us.

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It is microscopic, but also at the largest scales.

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Can the concepts of quantum-particle wave duality

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transition between two states with nothing in between them

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be mapped to the body,

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to movement,

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to stillness?

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Doan Tenters.

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Moving towards the horizon is a dance piece which celebrates the dance of light.

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I dance during the sunrise to welcome the light to arrive.

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Then I dance to the sunset to say farewell to the light and welcome the night, the darkness, to fall.

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In this piece, I wanted to create a moment where people can contemplate how time flows.

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A story where you become sensitive to the nature around you and focus on the horizon.

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A universe where you dive into a different space and time and the world slows down.

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My body is a metaphor to capture the dance of light and water.

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It is never still or unchanged.

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It is constantly moving, changing, flowing like water in the direction of somewhere.

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In performance, we said, time is ephemeral.

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As a dancer, I look at how I can think of quantum's constant movement as a dance dialogue at the human scale.

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But the natural scale for quantum is at the level of the atom,

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where light, particles, waves, movement are in constant exchange.

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The night canopy of stars originates in quantum phenomenon in atoms in exchange between elementary particles.

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Light, in particular, spreads, oscillates, interferes.

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Wave, infinite.

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Wave, infinite.

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Wave, infinite.

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Wave, infinite.

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Is a kinetic installation.

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installation the initial idea is to illustrate the invisible movement of

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life in waveform like the wave signals from daily electronic the invitation is

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for the audience to sit or lie under the installation as if they are stargazing

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in the middle of the city

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the Taiwanese author Wu Ming Yi inspired me while I was creating this piece

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he asked why are people from any culture so obsessed with the stars since ancient

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times human beings have learned to look up to the sky and connect incomprehensible

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natural phenomenon with personal and national destiny then he goes on to say

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that he thinks what people are fascinated by or think will affect their own

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destiny it's not purely stars or constellations but light

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From the smallest scale to the largest,

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quantum is not only confined to tiny atoms,

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and the most intriguing aspects appear,

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where our classical worldview in the form of flat space-time

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and general relativity intersects with quantum phenomenon

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at the edge of black holes.

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A realm that can only be imagined via a language of dance

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that is no longer continuous but digitized, discontinuous, fragmented.

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Dancing Gravity is an experimental performance project

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on how to imagine and perceive gravity.

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With the movement of dance, sound, and light,

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we invited a dancer, a sound designer, and VR artist to collaborate

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and create a piece for an online audience in the middle of the pandemic.

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Thank you.

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In the scale of a human, today I presented you a journey,

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a journey that starts eight years ago.

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When I first came to CERN, searching for the interconnectivity with everything,

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traveled back home with many questions,

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questions of meaning, beliefs, and facts.

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I then produced my first piece with Yifan into the realm of art and science

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called Unconditional Love and Fact.

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Unconditional Love and Fact.

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The performative presentation today is a reflection of my previous work,

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of my previous collaborations.

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It is an acknowledgement of how this quest into the realm of art and science

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shifted my artistic language, expanded the way and formats I work with,

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allowing me to engage with the different audiences.

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This presentation is also an experiment in itself.

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I wanted to see how different elements can coexist and interact with each other.

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A speaker, a dancer, text, music, videos, costume, and light into the stage.

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A speaker, a speaker, is an audio, a chair, a human presence, 인터�ve, anything, etc.

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This is a collective work that we have created together.

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Me, Yvonne, Michael, Sylvia, Claudia, Monica, Jill, Robert, Xenia, Zoe and everyone behind the stage supporting us.

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And of course, each one of you here listening.

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You all have now also become part of this ephemeral performance.

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We are all like quantum particles.

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Will we forever be entangled?

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Wenxi and Di Fang.

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And this brings us almost to the end of the evening.

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I hope we are all going to go home having understood a little bit more about quantum.

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Before we end, I would like to thank a couple of, a few people actually.

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First of all, let's give a big entangled applause to all the speakers and performers.

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And then another big, super-posed applause to Claudio Marcelloni, the team at CERN, and everybody

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else who has helped to make this happen.

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Thank you.