Neutrinos They Are Very Small - Fall Program
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre News
27 September 2006
PUBLIC PROGRAM
The Trouble with Oscillation
Lecture/performance by Sally McKay
Sunday 15 October 1:30 pm
Full on Gall
Participatory workshop
Sunday 15 October 2:30 to 5 pm
The artists in Neutrinos They Are Very Small - Rebecca Diederichs, Gordon Hicks and Sally McKay - offer an afternoon of encounters between advanced physics and the artistic imagination. Their exhibition, on view at the Art Centre until 10 December, presents their responses to the underground laboratory of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory as a site of observation, experimentation, and, above all, passionate curiosity about the inner workings of the cosmos. Adopting the persona of an adventurous tourist, Sally McKay will take visitors on a brain-time vacation in an entertaining lecture/ performance that probes the affinities between scientific and artistic processes. All three artists host Full on Gall, a drop-in workshop that invites visitors to draw a neutrino, plot an oscillation, delve into the mystery of the Black Box - and more. Representatives of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, an international facility in which Queen’s University scientists play a major role, will also be on hand to chat about their work.
This project and the accompanying catalogue have been co-developed with the Art Gallery of Sudbury. Neutrinos They Are Very Small would not have been possible without the generous cooperation of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, in particular Dr. Doug Hallman. The 48-page illustrated publication, designed by the award-winning Lisa Kiss, contains essays by exhibition curator Corinna Ghaznavi and art historian Allison Morehead, with an introduction by Jan Allen. The publication (available at the Gallery Shop or through ABCArtBooksCanada) includes a DVD with video excerpts and an interactive component documenting the experimental artistic collaboration Black Box.
This exhibition is made possible by funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund.