Fertile Void seeks to map out synergies between quantum physics, cultures, the arts and longer standing cosmologies during a three day event (1-3 November) and a series of installations by Studio Quantum artists-in-residence (1-10 November) in Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
On Friday 1st Nov there will be an opening panel including Provost Prof. Linda Doyle (Trinity College Dublin) and a launch party with Dublin-based DJ Fehdeh. Irish artist Edy Fun will exhibit a new artwork in the foyer of HKW, created as part of the Studio Quantum residency programme. Edy Fung also appeared earlier in the year as part of Zeitgiest Irland 24 in the context of a Studio Quantum event ‘Quantum Computing & Sound’
More informationEdy Fung is a post-disciplinary artist, curator and music composer. Her current research focuses on the origins of machine electronics, logic and philosophy of information. Her work has been added to the National Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. In Northern Ireland Edy Fung has exhibited and performed at the art galleries Platform Arts and Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast as well as at Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin and CCA Derry~Londonderry in Derry. Together with her sonic project Quantum Foam//QNTMFM, her practice seeks to explore and address current technological paradigms and the resulting epistemic limitations.
Author, composer, DJ and musician Emma Garnett, alias Fehdah, grew up in Ireland and Sierra Leone. Trained as an astrophysicist, she has created her own style of music which she calls “Afrofuturist-electro-soul”, a mix of R’n’B and traditional Irish and West-African singing. She draws her inspiration from Erykah Badu and Oumou Sangaré, but also Ali Farka Touré and Youssou N’Dour.