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Installing the Antony<br />
Gormley sculpture<br />
donated by the artist<br />
“Physics triggered great artistic movements”<br />
international arts development director at CERN and<br />
the person responsible for much of this activity.<br />
“This doesn’t just respect the differences between<br />
science and the arts. Really great artistic work can<br />
emerge: work that breaks boundaries and inspires us –<br />
as well as opening new doors for scientifi c thinking.”<br />
Despite some early teething problems, CERN’s<br />
most famous piece of lab equipment, the LHC, is<br />
now going great guns. Yet the ultimate search for the<br />
Higgs Boson – the rare subatomic particle it was built<br />
to look for – may not be so fruitful. CERN scientists,<br />
presenting a report in India in August, speculated<br />
that they will have either found the Higgs Boson by<br />
the end of this year or else will have confi rmed that<br />
it doesn’t exist in the form it was previously thought.<br />
Whether or not the discovery is forthcoming, the giant,<br />
subterranean tube has certainly piqued an artistic<br />
interest that shows no sign of waning.<br />
“Physics triggered some of the great artistic<br />
movements of the 20th century – take Einstein’s<br />
theories, which gave birth to modernism,” points out<br />
Koek. “Who knows? Perhaps this will be the start of a<br />
new creative revolution.”<br />
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A scene from the play<br />
Oracle at Delphi,<br />
performed by the<br />
Miméscope theatre<br />
group at CERN<br />
PHOTOS © CERN
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