Completing Aganta Kairos: Capturing Metaphysical Time on the Seventh Continent
Jim Madsen, Laurent Mulot, Christian Spiering (for the IceCube, Collaboration)

TL;DR
The paper describes an art project that celebrates neutrinos as cosmic messengers, fostering a global community through performances, installations, and diverse cultural interpretations of our origins.
Contribution
It introduces a multidisciplinary art project linking science and culture by commemorating neutrinos and creating a global community through performances and exhibitions.
Findings
Plaque installed at South Pole IceCube Laboratory in 2020
Diverse cultural approaches to understanding origins showcased
Global sites linked to ongoing neutrino experiments
Abstract
We present an overview of the art project Aganta Kairos (To Fish the Metaphysical Time). This project celebrates the neutrino, the ghost particle, which scientists consider a cosmic messenger and the artist regards as a link between people who care about their relationship to the cosmos and question their origins. The artwork is based on a performance of celebration and seeks to build a human community that encompasses different knowledge domains and interpretations of the universe. This intersection of knowledge is realized during the performance of placing a plaque, held with witnesses, and during subsequent exhibitions. Images, sounds, videos, and sculpture testify to the diversity of approaches to questioning our origins, ranging from traditional western science to ancient shamanism. The sites were selected for their global coverage and, for the South Pole, Mediterranean, and Lake…
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