Chapter 1: About the exhibition

Speaker 0 00:00:00 Chapter one about the exhibition. This chapter introduces the exhibition and as one minute and 35 seconds long, welcome to drift art and dark matter. An exhibition of four contemporary artists who connect physics to art, labor, landscapes, cultures, and histories. It is curated by sunny cur and was organized by Agnes Etherington art center at Queens university, the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astro particle physics research Institute and snow lab. We'll begin with a brief background about the exhibition. What dark matter is, and the site of snow lab in 2019 for artists, Nadia lick TIG, Josepha and jam and Riley and Joel, Tom's traveled to Sudbury in Northern Ontario to visit snow lab. A research facility built in a nickel mine, two kilometers underground. They were invited to explore the intersections of art and science through an interdisciplinary search for dark matter. Dark matter makes up 84% of matter in the universe because it does not absorb reflect or emit light. It cannot be seen or detected by scientists directly. It reveals itself through its gravitational effects by keeping planets in their orbits and stars within their galaxies. After spending time in snow lab, the artist created sculptures videos, photographs, and textiles, which are present in this exhibition. These artworks act as sensory agents that link scientific ideas of dark matter and the exploration of that, which has never been directly sensed.