Exploring concepts, inquiries and methodologies in Pierre Huyghe’s practice as they emerge in his latest commission

Through a sustained inquiry into the conditions of experience, Huyghe’s work invites reflection on the thresholds shaping the relationships between beings, matter and their realities. In the first part of the programme, philosophers Anna Longo and Chiara Vecchiarelli examine Huyghe’s practice with a focus on the emergence of unstable realities, potentiality and simultaneity, drawing on concepts ranging from the imaginal and the subjective to quantum perspectives.

In the second half, quantum scientist Tommaso Calarco, who consulted on Liminals, and exhibition curator Carly Whitefield explore how the artwork engages with key quantum principles such as superposition and indeterminacy, and how these ideas shape the film’s vision of a reality in which many possibilities coexist. They also discuss Huyghe’s collaboration with Forschungszentrum Jülich, in which sound was produced through quantum simulation.

Prologue: Anna Longo and Chiara Vecchiarelli

Anna Longo and Chiara Vecchiarelli: Pierre Huyghe’s Practice of Indeterminacy

Tommaso Calarco and Carly Whitefield: Quantum Reverberations