09 March - 26 April 2023 Free entrance booking advised here In Listening to Dark Matter, artist investigator, Rebecca Collins (1982), invites engagement with scientific uncertainty by staging a series of imaginative encounters with dark matter, an invisible yet abundant particle present in our everyday lives. Notoriously difficult to detect, scientists use technologically engineered advanced […]
Detectives of the Invisible: Towards a Cosmological Listening or How to Hear Elusive Particles
Rebecca was invited by curator Isabel De Naverán to contribute a three-hour seminar session as part of the ‘Collective Grief and Planetary Grief’ study group at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid. The session focused on the ongoing mysteries of our Universe and considered what it might take to have a sensory feel for new […]
Collective Practices of Uncertainty
‘Collective Practices for Uncertainty’ A micro-documentary 15.30 mins Language: Spanish with English Subtitles ‘Collective Practices for Uncertainty’ is a micro-documentary to share what can happen when you put artists, experimental composers, and particle physicists together. This unlikely three-day encounter, led and designed by Rebecca Collins, sought to foster intellectual companionship, share performative tactics, and uncover […]
Artistic Research meets Scientific Research
Rebecca Collins was invited to speak at the Winter Meeting of Astrophysics in La Laguna, Tenerife on unconventional research strategies and encounters operating between artistic research and scientific research. This forms part of her ongoing research project, ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) November, 2022.
Listening to Dark Matter
Our Universe contains vast amounts of a new form of matter that neither emits nor absorbs light. We do not know the nature of this mysterious “dark matter”, despite having been postulated more than a hundred years ago. Its search in different types of experiments has meant a revolution in particle physics, since it shows […]
Art & Science: Artistic Research & Sound Art
Rebecca Collins is presenting findings from her ongoing research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) as part of Science Week in Madrid at the Residencia de Estudiantes. She will share ongoing work, opening her notebooks to the wider public, to give insights into what has been going on since installing herself in B14, an office […]
The Listening Academy, Bergen 2022
Rebecca shared extracts from her current research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) at The Listening Academy in Bergen following an invitation from Brandon Labelle. The event, unfolding over three days in the harbour area of the city at ‘The Unfinished Institute’ felt like a timely reminder of the role of listening across a variety […]
Mend, Blend, Attend Society for Artistic Research, Bauhaus University, Weimar 2022
In July 2022 Rebecca presented her current research project, ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ at the annual Society for Artistic Research conference held at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Professor, Giaco Schiesser chaired the session and, alongside the other presenters an interesting debate was held on how artistic research can be integrated into interdisciplinary environments. […]
Art, Science and Technology: From Creation to Exhibition
Rebecca Collins is invited to present her research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ at an event on Art, Science, and Technology held at the Teatros Canal in Madrid. Discussions on the role of artists within institutions took place with a mixed audience of curators, cultural producers and interdisciplinary researchers.
Membranes, Microphones, Hydrophones & Particles
The second of four interdisciplinary seminars with Spanish National Radio presenter, Miguel Álvarez-Fernández and leader of acoustic research for astro particle detection, Miquel Ardid. Video documentation of the session forthcoming.