The Art of Questionable Provenance
Bend, Fold, Break
Curiosity: The Making of a Scientist
Entanglement
The Information Palace
Molecular Gastronomy
Quantum Games
The River Project
Symmetry
Entanglement (working title) is a collaboration between STAGE and Assistant Professor Tian Zhong to develop a new theatre project about quantum entanglement. STAGE has been working with physicists, game designers, motion capture and mixed reality experts, martial and performing artists, along with UChicago faculty, postdocs, grad students, and undergrads to activate their quantum imaginations.
In summer 2020, STAGE tested its work process via Zoom for the first time with a team of professional artists, scientists and students pictured below from left to right starting with the top row: Giau Truong, Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, Professor Nancy Kawalek, Livia Guttieres, Mark Habert, Myra Su, Kimberly Dixon-Mays, Irene Hsiao, Sophia Hororwicz, Ellen Askey, Christopher Knowlton, Dr. Supratik Guha and Dr. Tian Zhong.
The Entanglement project began in 2019 when the STAGE team traveled to The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Complex and The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong to work with media artist Jefrey Shaw, Chair Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, martial artist Oscar Lam, visual artist Victor Wong and Hing Chao who founded the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive. The initial inspiration for the project came from Professor Shaw’s museum exhibit Kung Fu Motion and Professor Zhong’s scientific research.
- In Kung Fu Motion, Professor Shaw employed motion capture and other cutting-edge technologies to bring a long-deceased kung fu master, and his singular techniques, back to life on film. The digital wizardry of Shaw and his team enabled the culture and traditions of martial arts and of Hong Kong to be preserved, communicated, and passed down to future generations.
- In its meaning, “kung fu” (功夫) conveys the notions of energy and time. Energy and time are two fundamental concepts in science, and in Zhong’s research on quantum entanglement. These ideas of quantum entanglement, kung fu, energy and time hold tremendous potential for a dynamic theatre piece about science, technology, memory, and heritage. The science of quantum entanglement affords rich material about inexplicable links to the future, while the intangible cultural heritage of kung fu renders inextricable links to the past.
Entanglement Collaborators
Tian Zhong
PME Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering
Jeffrey Shaw
Chair Professor of Media Art
School of Creative Media
City University of Hong Kong
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