Libby Heaney, Nibble My Multiverse, MU Hybrid Art House, Einhoven, 2026. Photo: Hanekke Wetzer.
Performance + Closing Talk
Eat My Multiverse
Libby Heaney
28 May 2026 ● 18H30 ● Ilídio Pinho Auditorium
Art + Tech x Cosmos =
Concerts, conferences, exhibitions and performances 2026
In this session, Libby Heaney will present the performance Eat My Multiverse (2025–ongoing, a performance featuring a live projection of a multiverse and sound. 30 minutes), followed by a discussion and a closing talk by Joasia Krysa.
Eat My Multiverse is a live performance work that unfolds the self as quantum: plural, relational and sensorially entangled across inner and outer worlds and bodies. Drawing on Libby Heaney’s wider practice exploring quantum materiality, consciousness and shared ontological fields, the piece brings together quantum computing, virtual environments, voice, movement and embodied ritual to open experiential encounters with multiplicity. Natural imagery, memory and emotion circulate through the work as generative forces, allowing quantum phenomena to be felt as lived conditions rather than abstract concepts.
Eat My Multiverse invites audiences to sense themselves as entangled within wider human, technological, and ecological fields, cultivating forms of perception that soften polarised thinking and renew felt connection with nature.
Art + Tech x Cosmos =
The programme brings together artists, creative technologists, curators, writers, and thinkers with contributions extending across several thematic constellations: from spiritual and the mythic, socio-technological infrastructures and (de)colonial logics, to speculative futures. Through these contributions, the programme explores the potential to reshape how we think about human and nonhuman creativity, how we experience the convergence of art and technology, and how their imaginative possibilities can inspire new cultural practices and worlds. Curated by Joasia Krysa, Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas and José Alberto Gomes
GUESTS
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LIBBY HEANEY Libby Heaney works with quantum materiality to unsettle the conditions through which meaning, time and perception are typically stabilised. Recognised as the first artist to use quantum computing as a fully functioning artistic medium since 2019, her practice spans glass, watercolour, performance, sound, video, print and computational systems, including AI and quantum technologies, treated as sites where coherence can fail rather than as representational tools. Trained as a scientist, with a PhD in quantum information science, Heaney engages quantum processes such as superposition, entanglement and non-locality to undo linear causality, hierarchy and the bounded subject. Her work addresses grief, memory, ecological loss and intimacy without resolving them into fixed meanings, holding experience in states of indeterminacy that resist narrative closure. Through this approach, she has developed a distinctive visual and conceptual language she terms quantum feeling, where care, politics and magic shape how uncertainty is sustained. Her work has been exhibited internationally and awarded prizes including the Lumen Prize and the Falling Walls Art & Science Prize. |
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JOASIA KRYSA |
