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As part of the new Art & Science program at the Niels Bohr Institute, this PhD project proposes a transdisciplinary exploration of time that bridges physics with embodied artistic practice. Rather than stopping at disciplinary intersections, the work reimagines how knowledge is produced by drawing on diverse methodologies and systems of reference across disciplines.
From a physics perspective, the current research investigates statistical mechanics in the regime of small systems (N < 1000), where conventional approximations such as Stirling’s fail. The first paper introduces a correction to the digamma function from first principles that aligns more closely with physically bounded systems. It provides insights into phenomena such as critical temperatures and phase transitions at small occupation numbers, which will later inform investigations into temporality in self-gravitating systems like dark matter halos.
In parallel, the project develops performance—through dance, voice, poetry, and visual experimentation—as an epistemic practice in its own right, with a special interest in immersive experiences. These methods approach time as a multisensory and relational phenomenon, inspired by global epistemologies, opening space to embrace uncertainty, imagination, and embodied experience. Rather than treating art as illustration, the work advances a pluriversal framework in which scientific and artistic practices co-generate knowledge.
The poster will present preliminary analytical results alongside documentation of workshops and performances, as well as forthcoming multidisciplinary courses, experimental workshops, and events. By integrating rigorous physics with performative inquiry and collective agency, the project dares to confront complexity and uncertainty while imagining the possibility of the otherwise. It calls for questioning dominant constructions of time and space, and the epistemologies they rest upon. Ultimately, it invites dialogue across physics, art, and philosophy on how we research, teach, and create meaning together.
