AHA! festival 2016
Other, 2016
For the third year, the AHA festival investigates the meeting between art and science in a three-day event at the Chalmers University of Technology hosted by the Department of Architecture and the Department of Physics. An international festival intended to provide enlightening experiences, staging surprises, new thoughts and displaced perspectives that lead to alternative modes of thinking about exploring the world through art and science. We invite scientists (physicists, historians, astronomers, engineers), artists (dancers, musicians, painters, poets, acrobats) who reside in these borderlands and wish to share their vision and work. The key intention is to celebrate both art and science as key knowledge building devices.
The first year’s theme ’Embodiment’ (2014) explored the body as our anchor in the world, followed by the 2015 theme on ’Numbers’, a delightful net we cast over the world. This year's theme is ’Uni-verse,’ again a natural consequence of our interest in the relation between art and science. The elemental force that drives science as well as art is curiosity. Come be curious with us!
During the festival we have chosen to divide the word universe into three: uni and "-" and verse. Uni means that something is combined into a whole. Verse means that we are turned in a direction, the origin of the word tells us that it is the plow that turns at the end of the field. And the dash "-" is all the spaces and cracks where new discoveries can grow. Art and science unfolds in the gap between what we know and what we want to know.
science
performance studies
reformulate
curiosity
exhibition
music
artistic research
butoh
art
poetry
body
architecture
dance
atmosphere
body weather
Author
Anna Maria Orru
University of Gothenburg
Chalmers, Architecture
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
Fredrik Nilsson
Chalmers, Architecture
Peter Christensson
Chalmers, Architecture
Michael Eriksson
Chalmers, Physics
Hye-Kyung Kim
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
Chalmers, Architecture
University of Gothenburg
Sigrid Östlund
Chalmers, Architecture
University of Gothenburg
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
Jonathan Geib
Chalmers, Architecture
Catharina Dyrssen
Chalmers, Architecture
Morten Søndergaard
Anna Kaczorowska
Chalmers, Architecture
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra)
University of Gothenburg
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
History of Ideas
Performing Arts
Literary Composition
Physical Sciences
HUMANITIES
Architecture
Performing Art Studies
Visual Arts
Music
Areas of Advance
Building Futures (2010-2018)
Driving Forces
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Learning and teaching
Pedagogical work