Fertile Void–Quantum Cosmologies between Science, Stories, and Speculation , 1. & 2.11.2025

Fertile Void–Quantum Cosmologies between Science, Stories, and Speculation
Lectures, Interactive Sessions, Conversations, Performances, DJ Set, Installation
1.& 2.11.2025
Accreditation: presse@hkw.de

What is the fabric of the universe and how might its interrogation shape forms of knowing and being in space and time? Celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, Fertile Void is a festival that grapples with questions posed by the quantum era.

Fertile Void looks at the promises and narratives of quantum technologies through the lens of culturally situated, more-than-human, and counter-hegemonic epistemologies and the arts. Through artistic interventions, performances, discourse, installations, and workshops, the festival investigates how different ways of knowing and being can contribute to understanding the social realities that emerge from quantum theorems, just as they become actualized by technology.

Free entry. All events and conversations will be held (predominantly) in English. Translation into German is provided.

Programme

Saturday, 1 November 2025

19:00–23:00
La Nuit, Écailles Translucides
Ife Day and Sandar Tun Tun
Sound Performance

19:00
Fertilizing the Void
Sundar Sarukkai
Keynote
In English with simultaneous German translation

21:00
Ile
Ife Day and Sandar Tun Tun
Performance

22:00
Pluriversal Interstitia_Interfluid Localities
houaïda
Sound Performance
In English

23:00

DJ Ôolong

Sunday, 2 November 2025

12:00–21:00
La Nuit, Écailles Translucides
Ife Day and Sandar Tun Tun
Sound Installation

13:00
Twelve Degrees Below the Horizon. A Workshop Between Observation, Collapse, and Possibility
Ale de la Puente
In English
Free entry, with registration via workshop.sciences@hkw.de

14:00–16:00
Kosmos, Körper, Klang: ein multisensorisches Abenteuer für Kinder ab 8 Jahren
Workshop
With Yosa Peit
In German
Free entry, with registration via education@hkw.de

16:30
The Future of Biology is Quantum: How Nature Might Run on Quantum Physics, and Why This Matters
Keynote by Clarice Aiello with subsequent presentations by the Quantum Biology Hacklab
In English with simultaneous German translation

19:30
HUM
Conversation and screening with Tania Candiani, houaïda, and Sundar Sarukkai
In English

More informatione here. 

With Contributions by: 

Clarice Aiello,Pedro Henrique Pereira de Carvalho Alvarez, Tania Candiani, Maria Luisa Chiofalo, Ife Day, Ale de la Puente ,Sandar TunTun, Gesa Grüning, Abbas Omid Hassasfar, houaïda, ôolong, Iara Patrícia, Yosa Peit, Sundar Sarukkai

Partner

Fertile Void is made possible by Schering Stiftung and with the kind support of the Goethe-Institut. The project is part of Berlin Science Week.

Informationen zum Besuch

Öffnungszeiten
Mi.–Mo. 12:00–19:00
Montags freier Eintritt

Längere Öffnungszeiten an Veranstaltungstagen

Kinderbetreuung
Das HKW bietet zu vielen Events kostenlose Kinderbetreuungsprogramme an. Weitere Informationen auf hkw.de.

Aktuelle Informationen zu Besuch und Zugänglichkeit. ­

Das Restaurant Weltwirtschaft ist täglich geöffnet ab 12 Uhr.

Kontakt

Jan Trautmann
Leitung Kommunikation
Head of Communications
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

­­­­T: + 49 (0) 30 397 87 157
presse@hkw.de