In this new work in progress, Ugandan artist, dancer and researcher Robert Ssempijja explores real and imagined boundaries.

Inspired by his encounter with bound states in Nobel Prize winning theoretical physicist Robert Laughlin’s book A Different Universe, Ssempijja has been exchanging ideas with physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory about real and imagined boundaries, whether in physics, art or society, and about potential ways of re-imagining.

Join us for this sharing of new work (approx 20 minutes duration) and conversation between the artist and Cavendish Arts Science Director Suchitra Sebastian, and take part in Q&A.

Maxwell Centre atrium
Monday 30 September, 12:00-13.00
Free to attend and open to all but seating capacity is limited. Please reserve in advance

Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College
Robert Ssempijja was selected as Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Girton College 2023-24 from an international open call.

The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship supports artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries.

The Fellowship is delivered through a partnership between Cavendish Arts Science, an initiative of the Cavendish Laboratory, and Girton College, thanks to the vision and generous support of Girton alumna Dr Una Ryan OBE (1963).

Cavendish Arts Science
The Cavendish Arts Science programme creates collective encounters between art and science that explore the world, our humanity, and our place in the world. It creates new spaces to re-imagine material and immaterial universes and supports artistic work that questions traditional centring of voices and ways of knowing.

Bound State