I want to transmit my vision of the beauty of the world. An awareness that the phenomena we see are the result of the complexity of the internal mechanisms between atoms: it is a sublime and wonderful feeling.
Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in Physics1965
Show currently touring in French: for performance dates, this way!
Rebellion of the minuscule
Quantum physics and object theatre
We are 99% emptiness.
And of the remaining 1%, little is known.
But we shall try to explain it to you anyway!
Bookings
Amélie Duguay
diffusion@auxecuries.com
At the crossroads of the museum and the laboratory, this show invites the audience to a journey towards the infinitely small, with humor and visual poetry!
Quantum physics is complex, paradoxical, sometimes frustrating in its incomprehensibility. But it is also the heart, often strange or disturbing, yet essential, of our world.
Rebellion of the minuscule is a voyage into the depths of the atoms that make up everything that surrounds us. Where the simple fact of observing a particle changes its behavior in an unpredictable way.
An object theater show where artworks are built live. Where the images' low tech magic magnifies the sense of vertigo, as we move between the known and the unknown, certainty and the void, light and matter.
But the quantum world proves impossible to frame. Each new question reshapes our borders. And suddenly, the world slips through our fingers...
Want to explore more quantum content?
Discover the works of art and science that inspired us by clicking on the fox!
Creators
Text and interpretation Antonia Leney-Granger
Director Évelyne Laniel
Interpretation Karine St-Arnaud
Dramaturgy and scenic conception collaboration Karine St-Arnaud, Mélanie Whissell
Set design Véronique Poirier
Lighting design and stage management Mélanie Whissell
Sound design Nicolas Letartre-Bersianik
Scientific counsel Stéphanie Jolicoeur
Partners
Maison de la culture de Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie
Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges
Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto
Institut quantique (Quantum Institute, University of Sherbrooke)
Thanks to all 66 generous donors that contributed to this show's creation. Your gift means the world to us, and we hope to meet you soon to thank you in person!
Credit : Maxim Paré Fortin
Artistic statement
Quantum physics casts doubt on humanity's ability to know everything about the world. It confronts human beings with their limits and proves that objective observation doesn't exist: the simple fact of observing subatomic particles modifies their behavior in unpredictable ways.
How can we evoke on stage something that, by definition, eludes us?
In this show, science is a pretext for destabilization. We use art to reveal the fragmented nature of reality.
Trying to “understand” a work of art or a quantum law is a complex, if not impossible, task. Knowing that electrons exist doesn't change anything about the lives of electrons.
It's we humans who are transformed by these discoveries. Who are we if infinite copies of us exist in parallel worlds? If our atoms are the same ones that have already composed a stone, the sun, a tree?
Science, like art, is an ephemeral creation. It's a work in progress, that constructs the world through observation. It creates the world by telling new stories.
Research themes
Light or matter?
Work on the projection of images, shadows and objects by low tech means to blur the distinction between light and matter
Grasping the invisible
Making the infinitely small visible and materializing complex concepts through the evocative power of object theater
Abstract art and quantum physics
How these two fields of practice explore alternative and polysemic visions of the world where several interpretations coexist
Extra resources
A list of books and references that inspired us during the creation of the show. A great way to continue your exploration of the quantum world!
BD
Jim Ottaviani
Feynman
Suspended in Language : Niels Bohr's Life, Discoveries,
and the Century He Shaped
Livres
Leonard Shlain Art and Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Helgoland
The order of time
Reality is not what it seems
Seven brief lessons in physics
Julien Bobroff
Mon grand mécano quantique
La quantique autrement
Bienvenue dans la nouvelle révolution quantique
Brian Greene
Hidden reality
Until the end of time
Adam Becker What is real?
John Gribbin Les mystères du monde quantique
StephenHawking A brief history of time
Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy
