Science Gallery Melbourne is inviting art projects to be included in 2023 exhibition ‘Dark Matters’, which will be developed in collaboration with Arts at CERN and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics. This open call is from every level of experience and from every discipline and from every culture. This open call invites to propose projects, tools, scenarios for a deeper exploration of extraordinary experience of life and nature and all the dark matter that runs through it and collides with it. Dark Matters explores the fundamental essence of life and the universe and remains a mystery to us. Dark matter consists of a mysterious substance that does not present an interaction with electromagnetic forces, which means it does not absorb, reflect it, or emit light.
Today everything is about modelling data, technology and simulations, while the search for dark matter can be seen as “a symbol of the limits of our cognitive experience.” There are unseen and unspoken materiality out there. The search for dark matter help us imagine new possibilities for life, and systems? How to access new environments and understand undefinable, unmeasurable, or something unsettling? An art work can also explore the hypothesis of dark matter, it can change how we think about ourselves, individually, or on universal scale.
What is the dark matter really? Dark matter refers to the mass of galaxies and galaxy clusters, and the way galaxies are organized on grand scales. Dark energy, is the mysterious influence driving the accelerated expansion of the universe. It is astrophysics in its essence. Dark matter works like an attractive force in the universe, a kind of cosmic cement that holds our universe together. This is because dark matter does interact with gravity, but it doesn’t reflect, absorb, or emit light. The call explores potential subthemes such as speculations about dark matter in universe, the future of science, technology, life on Earth, an art vision of a better world, the elementary nature of understanding of them, disappearance of time and our subjective experiences of it, unseen, unspoken or taboo, expanding universe, a curved spacetime born 14 billion years ago, dart matter as a social metaphor for urgent conversations around critical race theory, social justice, and the climate emergency, family, ancestry, community, and the invisible bonds that tie us in space and time, first human knowledges and cultural practices in understanding of universe, indigenous and Afro Futurism. The artists can respond directly to these ideas, or you can think laterally to raise a related question or subtheme. A submitted art projects can be experimental, risky, can produce new knowledge, raise new questions, or new experiences with the potential. Projects can be new, in-development or existing works in any form and can involve any equipment or materials. The projects can be evolving and dynamic and continue to experiment with time and space and take risk over this time.
Prize Summary is up to $8,000 AUD (Australian Dollar) at Science Gallery Melbourne
Deadline is very soon 05/August/2022, so if you already have developed a similar idea you could submit it by 5th of August 2022.
Just go to https://sciencegallery.org/opencall/dark-matters
info@melbourne.sciencegallery.com